Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Your Morning News 11.19.08

Posted by Josh in Automakers, Congress, New York Times, Pirates, Ted Stevens, Transition 2008, Your Morning News

Sorry I have been delinquent in the news folks, my job has been rather hectic for the last week. Rather than just ignore you all, I thought a quickly abbreviated roundup of today’s top news. Hopefully I will soon be able to return to putting the news into a little bit of context.

• Detroit Automakers are making increasingly desperate appeals to Congress for bailout money, while dreamiest Republican candidate ever Mitt Romney says let them go bankrupt.
• Somali pirates are netting increasingly larger prizes, but the jig is up for legislative pirate Senator Ted Stevens, who lost his seat in the Senate during a recount.
• The Obama transition has leaked the name of the new Attorney General and all I know is what Wonkette tells me: he looks like Lando Calrissian.

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Your Morning News 4.25.08

Posted by Jeff in Barack Obama, john mccain, New York Times, nypd, sean bell, Your Morning News, zimbabwe

• Your regularly scheduled Morning News author couldn’t be here today, because he’s busy being outraged over this morning’s acquittal of the three NYPD detectives involved in the Sean Bell shooting. For those of you not up on the details of the shooting, the New York Times has an overview of multiple viewpoints from witnesses to the incident, which left the unarmed Bell dead on his wedding day.
• Another day, another raid on opposition party headquarters in Zimbabwe.
• Is the media giving up on Obama? HuffPo thinks so.
• The Washington Post goes inside how John McCain has reversed his stances on tax policy, part of the larger trend of backtracking on everything that made him a respectable Senator.
• And finally, now is not a good time to be at the New York Times metro desk – the Gray Lady is reportedly bracing for its first ever mass firing of reporters.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Kitchen Myths Debunked

Posted by Josh in food, Myths, New York Times

Many of us probably learned to cook from our parents, and living on your own for the first time often involves a lot of panicked phone calls home while you are cooking dinner. For me, that involved me wandering the supermarket aimlessly while on my cell phone asking, “How do I tell if a melon is fresh,” “What aisle would the hummus be in,” and “Can you send me money?” While parents are great, cooking as oral tradition can give you prejudices and practices that don’t have any basis in reality. The New York Times features six kitchen myths that need to be debunked. My favorite was:

“Never wash mushrooms; they’ll absorb the water.”
Here, it depends what you mean by “wash.” Mushrooms are made up mostly of water, and they are porous — but they’re also grown in dirt, which can stick to them, and you really don’t want to eat dirt. To clean mushrooms, rinse them – don’t soak them – and don’t worry about a little water.

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