If you still have pumpkin or ran to the store and bought out the dwindling supply, this recipe is for you.   Pumpkin/… Read full post »

This video a slice of Sarah Palin's real America.  Where the educational system seems to have failed mightily, if these responses are any indication.

Apparently most of us missed it, but SP is a constitutional scholar and was the better candidate than McCain, Biden or Obama.  After… Read full post »

 

 If you are a chubby employee of Whole Foods, your life just got a little more, um, interesting.  The infamous John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods just announced a new program intended to prove his op-ed point of last August.… Read full post »

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It can almost stop a heart, this pumpkin shortage.

The manufacturers always keep it quiet until they can't.  Like when people wonder why the shelf is empty.   Nestle recently issued an apology to bakers everywhere.  /… Read full post »

 Trouble brews in conservative paradise.  Former Ebay CEO and  ever hopeful-candidate for Governor in 2010, Meg Whitman, released tax records for her charitable foundation Tuesday. 

And to the… Read full post »

 

This year, Thanksgiving is not just about that orange gourd-like squash.   It will be all about another knobby little tuber called ginger… Read full post »

Welcome to the beginning of the Sarah Palin book tour, starring just a girl from Wasilla.   SP has been writing furiously on her Facebook page spreading the word about the truthiness of Going Rogue.   Or not so much, according/… Read full post »

 

 Swiftly bowing to the pressure, RNC's Michael Steele announces that employees will no longer have elective abortion coverage within their health plan (as of today).  RNC employees, up until Thursday were covered by a/… Read full post »

The Republican infighting is getting nasty.   The theme?  Hopelessness with a side of  fear, well done.

Michael Steele's RNC recently sent out another mailing, a survey with a fee, a new kind of of fund raising for/… Read full post »

There is good reading to be had in October's issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.   It should be on everyone's holiday list.

In this new study about the benefits of dark chocolate, researchers learned what most chocoholics already know. /…

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If Californian's didn't know better they would think the biggest issue at hand has to do with the cheeky Boxer acting all Senator-like. &nb/…

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 And she's back.   With death panels and a nod to the abomination of the new secular dollar coin, as well as setting back women's personal freedoms a hundred years, Sarah Palin wowed a $30 per ticket crowd of twenty at/… Read full post »

It does stand to reason that a woman with an ego as large as Sarah Palin's would not realize that leaving gracefully and quietly would say volumes more than any speech she could have given.  But had she been given the choice, Palin/…

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Great economic news from the Silly Silicon Alley Valley.  Google is once again hiring.  That means the lucky few who snag Google jobs will never go hungry again with all that free food from the five star cafeteria and snack/…

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When Betty Crocker  offers  gluten free cake mixes, you know that Celiac has become mainstream.  The story about how the corporation came to develop gluten free products is on the box.  A familiar tale - a child of an employee and a test kitchen employee were diagnosed wit… Read full post »

San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, after months of trying to garner backing to secure the democratic nomination for the CA Governor's race, has dropped out.

 Newsom's statement here was heartfelt, yet practical. The gu/… Read full post »

Pink collar crime often begins with one small bite.  This one began with everyone and their dog rabidly selling futures in Milkbone, crushing the other cookie markets.  

The Feds caught these two with their paws in… Read full post »

Some House republicans apparently have calendars that have not changed since the Reagan years and seem to be possessed by a time-warp.  They recently invited notorious, (almost ex-convict) and private citizen, Oliver North to give them advice on Afg/… Read full post »

 Road trip! 

Just mutter roadtrip and it makes one shudder with xanax laden anticipation, or squeal with glee.   Some people seem to love the idea of torpedoing down the roadway in the company of other roadies, giant truckers, and really/… Read full post »

Last weekend, Yahoo hosted Hacker Day in Taiwan.  It's an event that most web (read: geeky) companies hold to bring in primo nerds who might want to craft a widget or two for the big software giants.  Hacker Day is a forum to woo/…

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It is a bold move that some said would not happen (talking to you, Robert Reich).   Obama Pay Czar, Ken Feinberg will momentarily order up the top TARP taker execs to cut their pay substantially.   

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As February 2010  and the Credit Card Act looms near, the banks are skipping Christmas and going right for Scrooge-ville.  Rate hikes loom large.

Congress sent letters to credit card companies asking them to not hike the rates prior/… Read full post »

Japan's First Lady won a very special prize on Monday.   A coveted prize actually, as exciting to her as the Nobel is to our President. 

Miyuki Hatoyama, the former actress, who has said she communed with Tom Cruise in/… Read full post »

If the happy couple, one Black, one White, wants their marriage license signed by the Justice of the Peace in Tangipahoa Parish, it won't be happening on his watch. 

 JP Keith Bardwell says races shouldn't be mixed that way.  Interracial marriages/… Read full post »

Sometimes a birthday becomes more than a celebration, and  turns into a phenomenal math event.  This week, the bookend brothers will celebrate a combined centennial birthday.  They will be 52 million minutes old. 

My older brother, sibl… Read full post »