Sauteed Leeks and Mushrooms 0
We ad libbed this recipe last night and it was very well-received, so I thought I’d share it.
Ingredients:
- 2 Leeks
- 6 or 7 button mushrooms
- 1/4 large onion or half a small onion
- 2 or 3 cloves garlic
- pepper and basil (and other spices as desired) to taste
- Approx. 3 tbs. butter
Procedure:
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1. Wash leeks and mushrooms thoroughly. Note that sand can collect in the leaves of the leeks, so be especially attentive to them.
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2. Trim leaves and roots from leeks, then slice leeks in 1/2-3/4 inch segments.
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3. Quarter mushrooms.
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4. Chop onions.
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5. Melt butter in saucepan at medium heat, then saute onions and garlic until onions are wilted.
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6. Add spices, leeks, and mushroom; saute until done, stirring occasionally (15-20 mins.)
Serves two.
H/T Susan for coming up with the idea.
(Anti-)Social Media 0
Writing at the Hartford Courant, Barth Keck argues that Americans’ apparent willingness to believe anything they read on a computer screen is inimical to the polity. He uses the aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide as a starting point.
Social media, simply, is poisoning American minds.
Follow the link for the rest.
Misdirection Play, Firearms of Mass Destruction Dept. 0
The Tampa Bay Times reveals Florida Republicans’ strategy for dealing with concerns about white supremacists and about access to firearms of mass destruction: Blame everybody and everything except guns and the people who fire them.
Full story at the link.
“The Truth! They Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is taken aback by white folks who can’t handle the truth about the Old South.
No excerpt or summary can do justice to his column. Just read it.
“Paranoid Delusions” 0
Jason Blazakis argues that paranoid delusions feed right-wing extremism and violence.
A snippet:
He goes on to suggest several remedies.
As most of his suggestions depend on a sane Executive, I do not wax optimistic.
It’s All about the Algorithm, “Googling Is Believing” Dept. 0
David and his guest discuss how the internet feeds confirmation bias.
Geeking Out 0
Listening to Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell, from the Old Time Radio Network Library on Real Player in a VirtualBox virtual machine of Windows 8 on Ubuntu MATE using the Fluxbox window manager on my Zareason media box.
Just Because You Read It Somewhere Don’t Make It True 0
In the Portland Press-Herald, Greg Kesich dissects several Republican disinformation campaigns and offers some hints for separating spotting the cons. A snippet:
Plastic Here, Plastic There, Plastic Plastic Everywhere 0
There’s plastic every where. Here’s an excerpt for the story in The Denver Post:
USGS scientists found more plastic particles in water samples drawn from the urban sites — which followed a line from the National Jewish Hospital in east Denver through downtown to Arvada, the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus and Boulder Canyon.
But Wetherbee and his team also found frequent plastics contamination in water samples drawn at a mountain site near Nederland and at a relatively isolated Loch Vale site at an elevation of 10,364 feet above sea level beneath towering peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park — a watershed that scientists have monitored for more than 20 years for chemical contamination from wind and rain.
(Why do I see a move to Kansas City in these researchers’ future?)
How Far Will Wells Fargo? 0
One more time, pretty damn far.
Aside:
There is no truth to the rumor that Wells-Fargo is led by a “Godfather of the Board.”