Taken one by one, many of the troubling events we're confronting at this moment in our civilization may have specific causes that appear unique.
However, when viewed as a whole, the killing of true health care reform, the bailout that...
Friday night on Vox Populi, I mentioned that I had been posting the HP Bush Years Posters to answer Obama bashers across the net. I believe it was escribicat who asked what the Bush Years Posters were, and I...
Seeing as winter is coming on (even in Los Angeles, it's all relative) I have a hankering for my favorite soups.
Cipollata is high on my list. It is an Italian answer to French Onion Soup.
From "Easy Italian Cookery", Grange...
It is a tradition with our family that at Thanksgiving Dinner, we go around the table and each of us says what we're thankful for. It occurred to me that many other people may do the same, especially those...
Thanksgiving can be a day of joyful family reunion or, a dreaded day of obligation that must be attended out of guilt.
Does Thanksgiving for you mean a warm home with the mouth-watering scents of spices from pumpkin pie, the...
this will be a short one.
just to let everyone here know peacekitten has been banned from huffington post without so much as a warning or a cautionary email. all i got was a lousy lightning bolt.
of course i am...
Cartoon by Jeff Parker - Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com - http://www.cagle.com/news/Thanksgiving09/main.asp
I saw this cartoon and I had to share it with everyone. It says so much of the worldview of our conservative brethran, and yet if it was the shoe...
Everyone wants to know why more hasn’t been done in the last 10 months than actually has occurred. There are a lot of reasons.
1) The President is a CEO, and few CEOs can come in and change the direction...
Just wondering if I am the only foodie here? Just love to cook. Perhaps Sundays could be recipe exchange day?
With war raging in Europe and knowing it was only a matter of time before America became involved, Jacqueline Cochran, the most famous female pilot next to Amelia Earhart, met with Eleanor Roosevelt and...
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