What's For Dinner: All American BBQ Food for Racists

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Sunday May 24, 2009 · 3:05 PM PDT

2009/05/24 · 15:05

You're hosting, or attending, a BBQ for red state neighbors? Here's some classic all-American food.

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Tuesday May 19, 2009 · 4:59 PM PDT

2009/05/19 · 16:59

Arches National Park and its environs has been generating a lot of news lately. In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher sabotaged the Bush administration's midnight auctions of oil and gas leases near Arches. (Yay!) DeChristopher was arrested (boo!), protests and legal defense funds following as day follows night (yay!). Next, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar revoked 77 of the leases (yay!), saying that he'll reconsider them (boo!) after his proposed deputy David Hayes (yay!) gets confirmed...but Bob Bennett (R-UT) succeeds in blocking Hayes' nomination because Salazar rescinded the leases (boo!). Three oil & gas companies who held leases on adjacent lands sued to force Salazar to give them the new leases (boo!). Meanwhile, the credit card legislation that Obama says he wants to sign has been hijacked by the Senate's guns-in-national-parks amendment (boo!). I've counted four yays and five boos, but I'm glossing over nuance, and even the simplistic account above is enough to make one's head spin.

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26 votes Show Results

Favorite red rock park of Southern Utah:

26 votes Vote Now!

Favorite red rock park of Southern Utah:

Arches NP

1 vote

Bryce NP

2 votes

Canyonlands NP

2 votes

Capitol Reef NP

1 vote

Cedar Breaks NM

2 votes

Dinosaur NM (okay, it's not in the south, but I still like it)

0 votes

Natural Bridges NM

0 votes

Rainbow Bridge NM

0 votes

Zion NP

8 votes

I haven't visited enough to have a favorite

4 votes

Ack! I can't possibly pick one!

5 votes

Red mud pie

1 vote

Contract with California, 2010: in case we're not FUBAR yet!

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 7:45 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 19:45

Yesterday I was polled by a research center on behalf of a group that may call itself the Contract with California (shades of Newt Gingrich!). A group with sufficient money to commission a poll is testing messages. I'm passing it on to fellow Kalifornia Kossacks so you can see where the battle lines are being drawn for 2010.

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 5:07 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 17:07

So you want to know the secrets of this park? You're planning a trip this summer to camp in Yosemite Valley*? You want to see the prettiest waterfalls**? You're planning to drive to your campsite, then drive around and see the sights?***? Or maybe you just want to know what Yosemite is doing with its share of stimulus money?

UPDATED to include Senate amendment to credit card legislation permitting semi-automatic guns to be carried in national parks, including Yosemite -- does the stupid never end?

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Friday May 08, 2009 · 9:12 AM PDT

2009/05/08 · 09:12

I am ill. I donated, fought for, and voted for Obama because I thought he could repeal all the stupid pigheaded wrong decisions of the Bush Administration, most especially on global warming. Now the AP reports that he's not going to change one of the most stupid, pigheaded, wrong rules to come out of those dark days. Instead, he's going to "further study" whether greenhouse gases will hurt the polar bear, and by implication the rest of the planet. Is there anyone who can save this planet from ourselves?

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Tuesday May 05, 2009 · 5:00 PM PDT

2009/05/05 · 17:00

Ever tried a Kennedy Walk? Can you hike 50 miles in one day? It's a great challenge for a Democratic activist: honor one of our great Presidents while knowing that you're in prime physical marching shape.

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80 votes Show Results

Longest walk/hike:

80 votes Vote Now!

Longest walk/hike:

50 miles or more, several days

7 votes

50 miles or more, one day

2 votes

20 - 50 miles

20 votes

5 -20 miles

40 votes

Less than 5 miles

2 votes

I'm like JFK -- from my car I'll drink daiquiris, eat pie, and honk at you, with great vigah

9 votes

Peep Show: Chicks Discover Grass!

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Sunday May 03, 2009 · 1:10 PM PDT

2009/05/03 · 13:10

They grow up so fast! One day they're just innocent little newborn girls, so small you can hold them in your hand, and not very much later they're running around in a fast crowd all crazy because they've discovered the joys of grass!

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73 votes Show Results

Cutest this week on grass:

73 votes Vote Now!

Cutest this week on grass:

Irene

25 votes

Medea

16 votes

Valkyrie

13 votes

the baby velociraptors from Jurassic Park

10 votes

Kal Penn (Kumar) eating pie, and this diary is just a cheep peep show

9 votes

Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Thoughts on a Hotel Treadmill

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 5:06 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 17:06

This past weekend I was stuck in a hotel and had to use the treadmill to get a workout. I hate treadmills! This treadmill is a state of the art Precor. I still hate treadmills! It even has its own miniature television, which I left on CNN because I don't really care, and let my eyes glaze over at swine flu, Obama's 100 day milestone, GM killing off Pontiac, and a bunch of ads. All this was, I guess, supposed to alleviate my boredom. It didn't work, because I hate treadmills! Also to alleviate my boredom, I played with the incline and speed every minute or two: do I burn more calories running at 6.0 mph and 2% incline or 6.2 mph and 0% incline? Do I care? No, because I hate treadmills! I log 30 minutes plus cooldown, feeling like a hamster, then move on to weights.

Have I mentioned that I hate treadmills?

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63 votes Show Results

I get my cardio workout:

63 votes Vote Now!

I get my cardio workout:

at the gym because it's convenient to combine with weights and classes

8 votes

at the gym because it's safer (well lit, no bad weather, no traffic/smog/pollen)

3 votes

at the gym because I like using different machines

1 vote

at the gym, reason not listed above

4 votes

outdoors because I don't have or can't afford a gym

5 votes

outdoors because I'm happier being outdoors

25 votes

outdoors, reason not listed above

6 votes

on my couch by shoveling pie into my mouth and chewing very fast

11 votes

Junior Statespeople of America Report: The Kids Are All Right!

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Sunday April 26, 2009 · 3:42 PM PDT

2009/04/26 · 15:42

"Democracy is not a spectator sport!" Neither is being asked to chaperone 24 high school kids on 24 hours' notice to a convention of 1200 aspiring politicans. Reporting from the Junior ~~Statesmen~~ ~~Statespeople~~ State of America, good news on our next generation of leaders!

JSA is a non-partisan political organization founded 75 years ago to teach high school students to be politically aware students, skilled debaters, and leaders of tomorrow. Students attend conventions where they debate issues of the day. I was roped into attending Spring State 2009 in the Los Angeles region, and thought y'all might appreciate a report on the leaders of tomorrow.

JSA runs summer school programs at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and Georgetown. The Georgetown program, in particular, brings in some seriously high ranking politicians to speak to the kids: recent past speakers have included both Clintons, George H.W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, a number of Senators, and a skinny-but-tough junior senator from Illinois with a strange name (I wonder whatever happened to him?). JSA alums include Mike McCurry, Ed Meese, and Charles Schwab.

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17 votes Show Results

In high school/college, I participated in (or am presently in):

17 votes Vote Now!

In high school/college, I participated in (or am presently in):

JSA

1 vote

YMCA Youth and Government/Youth in Government

1 vote

Model United Nations

2 votes

Debate club

3 votes

Other political club

1 vote

No formal club, but I argued with my friends

4 votes

I was apathetic about politics at the time

3 votes

I ate a lot of political pie

2 votes

Action alert? Proposed federal insurance czar will hurt consumers

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Wednesday April 22, 2009 · 8:36 AM PDT

2009/04/22 · 08:36

The AP is reporting that large property insurers might finally get what they've been wet-dreaming about for years: one set of federal regulations rather than the current patchwork of 50 states' regulations. Obama and Barney Frank are said to be open to the idea. This would be a disaster for consumers. I'm not quite sure how to turn this into an action alert, but can anyone here help?

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 5:02 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 17:02

What good does it do to spend federal money in particular places? Let's explore the impact of federal spending in one awesome place, Mount Hood, just above the Columbia River, an hour or so east of Portland, and the highest point in Oregon. It's also the site of three federal stimulus programs: two in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps, and the third in 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act. So far, the foresight of FDR has given us skiing in August, a 40 mile trail circling a volcano, and -- of course -- Jack Nicholson running amok with an axe.

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Sunday April 19, 2009 · 3:16 PM PDT

2009/04/19 · 15:16

I make pizza when it's hot outdoors. The time involved is also roughly equal to watching a major league baseball game. Just as a good baseball game comes down to, at its most basic, a ball, a bat, and some time on a sunny day, good pizza also needs simple ingredients: yeast, flour, water, salt, olive oil, and -- most of all -- sunny daylight time, about 2 hours or more.

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57 votes Show Results

Favorite pizza and what it says about you:

57 votes Vote Now!

Favorite pizza and what it says about you:

Pepperoni -- I'm a typical American

8 votes

Sausage, pepperoni, and bacon -- I have arteries of steel

6 votes

Canadian bacon and pineapple, aloha? eh? -- I'm a mutt

5 votes

Anchovies -- I'm antisocial and like to annoy others

3 votes

New York style -- sowhat'sittoyou, youmoron?

7 votes

Chicago style -- the deeper the dish, the better, especially near the friendly confines of ivy-covered walls

7 votes

Neapolitan style margherita -- I'm a purist

13 votes

Arugula -- I'm a Volvo-driving, sushi-eating, latte-sipping elitist

4 votes

Pie -- I'm a Kossack!

3 votes

Any flavor that I can eat along with my teabag

1 vote

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