MY SUNDAY WASHINGTON EXAMINER COLUMN IS UP: Forget Talk of Compromise or Confrontation: Republicans Should Seek Clarity.
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November 7, 2010
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BILL WHITTLE: What We Believe: Gun Rights.
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK: While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese.
When Michelle Obama implored restaurateurs in September to help fight obesity, she cited the proliferation of cheeseburgers and macaroni and cheese. “I want to challenge every restaurant to offer healthy menu options,” she told the National Restaurant Association’s annual meeting.
But in a series of confidential agreements approved by agriculture secretaries in both the Bush and Obama administrations, Dairy Management has worked with restaurants to expand their menus with cheese-laden products.
But remember, they’re smarter than you.
And maybe this explains the trend toward turning pizza into cheese toast that I’ve complained about in the past.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: An indoor electric turkey-fryer? I think I’ll stick with the oven, though fried turkeys are supposed to be quite tasty, and at least this has less risk of explosion than the more traditional turkey-fryer.
UPDATE: Reader Gerald Dearing has one and likes it:
Been using the indoor turkey fryer for almost a year now. Not just for turkeys. Has a more capacity and better recovery time than any other household fryer I’ve found. Makes great fries, chips, chicken and anything else. An advantage is the lid and the safety power cord. I’ve done turkeys for family and guests, using Alton Brown’s brining technique, to great reviews. Explosions? Properly thaw the bird and use the right oil level, shouldn’t be a problem.
Not up my alley, but interesting.
MY SUNDAY WASHINGTON EXAMINER COLUMN IS UP: Forget Talk of Compromise or Confrontation: Republicans Should Seek Clarity.
GLENN FLEISHMAN: What We Talk About When We Talk About Bandwidth. “And, yes, I did just explain that the Internet is a series of pipes.”
ED DRISCOLL: Follow the truthiness.
Related: Obama was to the Democrats what Watergate was to the Republicans.
IS THE KINDLE KILLING INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES?
Besides the crushing economy, Carpe Librum suddenly faced yet another new competitor: e-books and e-readers such as the Kindle and Nook, which have finally taken off after years of attempting to lure consumers away from printed books. According to the Association of American Publishers, for instance, e-book sales were $39 million for August, a 172 percent increase over August 2009 ($14.3 million); calendar year to date, sales grew 193 percent. Throw in big-box retailers like Target and Walmart with discounted bestsellers, and buying books has never been more convenient—a trend that’s been devastating to traditional, independent sellers who mostly stick to list prices in exchange for offering a more selective stock and helpful clerks.
Sorry to see Carpe Librum close — but I have to say, I get most of my books via Kindle now, and most of the rest via Amazon.
EGOTISM TRUMPS PRAGMATISM at the White House.
DON’T FORGET TO SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK. And this is a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors, too.
November 6, 2010
MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT Joe Biden’s motorcade problems.
WHO NEEDS BATTERIES? Hand-cranked flashlights and radios.
UPDATE: Reader Tom Kenyon writes:
RE: WHO NEEDS BATTERIES? Hand-cranked flashlights and radios.
I would like someone to make a battery-free cell phone so I can make crank calls.
Groan.
LABOR FORCE STATS spell bad news for Democrats.
BAD NEWS FOR BARNEY FRANK: “The mockery has only just begun.”
Related: The Madness of King Barney.
ED DRISCOLL called the “Don Draper Presidency” first.
INTERESTED IN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS? Check out Bill Quick’s discussion forum.
Related: List: Disaster Preparedness gear.
MORE ON the state-level Tsunami. “Republicans have more seats in state legislatures than at any time since Reconstruction.” That’s something that Scott Rasmussen and I talked about yesterday.
NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA: Indebted and Unrepentant. “Another division is likely to compete for center stage in the next two years: the split between, on one side, California and New York—two states, deeply in debt, whose wealthy are beneficiaries of the global economy—and, on the other, the solvent states of the American interior that will be asked to bail them out. This geographic division will also pit the heartland’s middle class and working class against the well-to-do of New York and California and their political allies in the public-sector unions.”
THE TINGLE IS GONE AT MSNBC: Olbermann Suspended! GOP Wins! And Stephen Kruiser of PJTV gets a new friend:
RELATED: “Hypocrite: In 2004, Keith Olbermann said MSNBC’s election office pool was ‘conflict of interest.'”
(Bumped).
FLORIDA TV STATION HAVING TROUBLE finding someone to oppose open carry on-air.