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Feb. 11th, 2009
Kumquat -- it's like a baby orange!
Feb. 11th, 2009 04:44 am
Seedless Kumquat Takes Root
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: February 10, 2009
The Nagami kumquat is the most common variety, sweet of skin, tart of flesh and full of seeds. But now a seedless variety, which has been available in Japan for some time, is being grown in Panama for the American market. The kumquats are refreshingly tart to nibble — skin and all — perhaps with some cheese. More
Gray Lady on Blanket Secrecy
Feb. 11th, 2009 06:13 amContinuity of the Wrong Kind
Published: February 10, 2009
Published: February 10, 2009
The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law. More
Them big, smart, highly-paid, white, male bankers
Are holding on to the trough with all their might,
But they've sold all the brick for straw.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to notice
There's no there there any more,
No matter how much money
You slip over the transom or under the door.
Are holding on to the trough with all their might,
But they've sold all the brick for straw.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to notice
There's no there there any more,
No matter how much money
You slip over the transom or under the door.