Monthly Archives: July 2008

Really good corn

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Every once on a while, conditions conspire and come together to bring really good corn into this world. You know the type: sweet, easily schucked, juice kernels. Corn like this is manna from heaven. I have never found corn this good in a restaurant. Only at a farm can someone get food this tasty. The closest I’ve ever encountered outside of a farm was at Moto (an amazing meal I shared with my brother, paid for by staying on his couch instead of a hotel for four nights while on business.) But given the science experiments that go on there, I’m not sure that it ought to count!

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And this weekend, we ate excellent corn. The only way to cook it is to lightly steam it. With okay corn, you may be best to put it on a grill-get the extra flavor through the carbon and extreme heat. But this corn? Never.

 

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I found that a light dusting with pink rock salt brought out the corn’s sweetness.  Anyway, the corn, excellent weather, and good friends made for a wonderful beach weekend.

Prophets, both great and low. . .

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So, I was hit up by a cute young volunteer to give money to the Obama campaign. Well, not directly to the campaign, but to the DNC, so it would go further and also help out the Democrats he will need elected in order to govern effectively. I pointed out that we already had a majority in both the House & the Senate and that I am particularly frustrated that Sen. Obama had voted for telecom immunity.

“Yes but, look at the alternative. . .” she responded.

Yeah, I know, this isn’t a perfect world. . . still, I would have preferred to force the current administration to pardon those involved with illegal wiretaps, rather than retroactively granting immunity for breaking the law.

On a related note, I just read some very amusing commentary on the messianic aspects of the Obama campaign in The Times:

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

Wow, if that doesn’t describe the faith of some of my compatriots. I mean, I clearly support the campaign. I am a firm believer that Obama is the best option that we have been presented with for president. Indeed, I think that he will make a GOOD president. This article is definitely good for a laugh. Highly recommended.

Dreaming of prosecutions

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I have spent the past seven years in various states of shock. The Administration seemed to have adopted a strategy of distracting the press and public from the scandal of the moment with a new and better scandal. It became rather difficult to keep track of the conspirators-excuse me-strategy architects.

I needn’t worry any more! Slate has made everything easy with a paint by numbers venn diagram, tracking the relevant officials behind several of the Bush administration’s greatest hits.