How I shop...

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They Done Him Wrong

The Idaho Statesman! The Idaho Statesman! The Idaho Statesman! Shame on them for causing a good Family Values(TM) Republican to go gay like that.

Nest Week: "How black men can also make you go gay like that."

Somebody please stop that virile hunk, Fred Thompson, from going into any public restrooms! We just can't have another Family Values(TM) Republican Shining Star(TM) go gay!

Food, Glorious Food

In a ’64 T-Bird, Chasing a Date With a Clam
By DAVID LEITE

RECAPTURING a childhood memory is nearly impossible. Chasing after it in a black 1964 Thunderbird convertible with red interior certainly helps.

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Edible Films With Superpowers
By KIM SEVERSON

New Brunswick, N.J.

LEAVE heirloom tomatoes to the organic farmers and pork belly to the chefs. In the chemistry department at Rutgers University and other laboratories like it, the real action is in less trendy ingredients like oregano, crab shells and milk.

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How to Eat (and Read) Close to Home
By MARIAN BURROS

NO one would ever mistake Edible Brooklyn for Edible Atlanta, though both are quarterly food magazines that share a corporate parent and a typeface. But the story titles in the latest issue of the Brooklyn version might flummox Atlantans. There is, for example, “Fresh Kills,” about a live poultry market in Williamsburg, and “Late Night Nosh,” which is self-explanatory, at least in New York City.

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For you hopelessly Scandinavians out there

Recipe: Pasta With Potatoes

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Sniff

My Baby Car(TM) spent the night alone at the dealer. The gas gage went wonky. I know, I know, it's a technical term that many of you are unfamiliar with, but that's what it did. I took it in last night and they said it was a MAJOR OPERATION to replace the fuel sensor in the gas tank. So, they loaned me a car and I had to drive home in a car the size of New Jersey. Last night they told me, after quoting me a price that seemed like an arm and a leg, that they'd misquoted the price, that it required both arms and both legs because my car was without a top and so it required a whole heap more work and was an even MORE MAJOR OPERATION to replace the fuel sensor in the gas tank, but they said, since they'd only quoted me one arm and one leg, that's all they'd take when I paid for it, and would I please bring in my own saw.

"Oh," they said, "and you know you need tires?"

Why yes, I thought but every time I come in here, you put the cost of tires in some other part of the car, but I was nice and said "I know, and thanks for offering to look up your overpriced rubber for me." But, I said it nicer, in a more mid-western way where most of the sentence is silent.

Then they called me this morning at O Dark Hundred and said the fuel sensor they got to replace the wonky one was wonky too and that it just wouldn't do. And that the nice man I'd talked to yesterday would call me later.

Oddly enough, last night he didn't want to go to the restroom and have sex. I've heard there's a lot of that going around. Maybe I did not tap my foot correctly. I missed out on formal Tea Room Training in my formative years. There are somethings you have to start early in order to get right.

(With the prices he was quoting, he could not be a Democrat.)

Fwd: Responding to your email

Wot a crock....
-- Forwarded Message --


Dear Larry:

Thank you for contacting me concerning the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

You should first know that the FISA bill which passed both the House
and Senate a few weeks ago is a temporary measure -- an interim fix
extending for the next six months. I would have preferred the version
offered by Senator Carl Levin, which I voted for. Unfortunately, that
version did not pass, and I voted for the extension on a temporary basis
only, because I couldn't allow there to be a gap in our intelligence
gathering activity - our safety depends on our ability to continue tracking
terrorist networks.

Please know that I will actively work during this temporary six month
extension to ensure any permanent FISA extension strikes the right balance
between protecting our safety and protecting our civil rights.

The resignation of Attorney General Gonzales is the first step in
achieving that balance, and I hope that his departure lifts the cloud that
has lingered over the Justice Department. He leaves a legacy of justice
tarnished. I was among the first to call for his resignation, and I am
hopeful that a new Attorney General will be a moreindependent voice for
the people and uphold the principles of law and justice in this country.

Thank you again for your input, and please dont hesitate to contact
me again regarding this or any other issue.

Sincerely,

Amy Klobuchar
United States Senator
via TREO
Larry

Oops, he forgot...

''I would encourage all Idahoans to avoid rushing to judgment and making
brash statements about a man who has dedicated his life to public
service,'' GOP state party chairman Kirk Sullivan said in a statement.

The juicy bit about the best blow jobs in the West! Now if that's not serving the public, I don't know what is.

via TREO
Larry