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The other day I tried something new: a calamari steak. I’ve cooked calamari before, but not just a steak. In my head I knew I wanted to do a grilled calamari salad of some sort, but when I got home I discovered that, in fact, I was way too lazy to light the grill.

Politicians of both parties routinely extol the virtues of “hard working Americans.” Who are they talking about?

I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of attacking John McCain because of his wealth. Do I think Obama is going beyond the pale in doing so?

From a DCCC fundraiser/action e-mail from Paul Begala:

Apparently, it didn’t take long for the “Grand Oil Party” to come unglued. After I called their fat-cat funders a bunch of dirtbags in my email to you on Sunday, they started squealing like a pig stuck under a gate.

Nashville Restaurants and Food

We're half-way through World Vegetarian week, but I don't have any recipes to post. So I'm going to share a couple of stories instead.

Last night as I was making a salad for dinner I imagined at each chop that I was hearing the scream of the lettuce as I ripped it into shreds. Those poor carrots and radishes were absolutely tortured on the chopping block, it’s that long and slow kind of torture. It’s absolutely inhumane. [...]

I must have been blinded by hunger while shopping for groceries today, because I mistakenly picked up a bag of cherry-flavored Craisins in lieu of the regular dried cranberries.