Last Bender

Mitt Romney has said in an interview on CNN that he’s not interested in the poor. That’s not surprising, no one is. Certainly not Barak Obama. The fact is the last presidential candidate who was genuinely concerned about the very poor was gunned down in Los Angeles in 1968. Jimmy Carter famously went to the [...]

I thought George W. Bush had gone into retirement with his bush hog but no, it turns out he took a job as an Italian Cruise Ship Captain…MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

The way marketing with food works is this: you either find some obscure, cheap and largely disliked and ignored food, discover it, dust it off, present it with truffles and start charging top dollar for it. Or, you claim some ordinary thing that people never really stopped eating is broadly disliked and is undergoing a [...]

“Shame made me cyncial and sarcastic.” -Rousseau

“Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money?” Mr. Gingrich asked. YES!

Saturday was the first day of the Ithaca Winter’s Farmer’s Market. It was also the first day of my Winter CSA. I don’t do a summer CSA, because I grow my own vegetables, and I’d rather choose what and how much I’m going to buy. Also, the prices are better when you hunt around farm [...]

Black Eyed Peas I don’t like holidays, but I do like food. My way through holidays is to cook. For Christmas (not my holiday…a savior ain’t in the cards for MAN), I love the Sicilian tradition of seven fishes, even if they aren’t all fish. One of my old dear friends who died too young, [...]

Kim Jong-Un has surged ahead of other GOP presidential hopefuls in Iowa, edging out Ron Paul (at 24%) with 26% of likely GOP caucus goers. Romney is in 3rd (20%) and Gingrich has dropped to 15%. The margin of error as usual in GOP contests is huge.

This morning the news was all about Tim Tebow, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos. The lead of the story was that he is a great quarterback and an aggressive Christian, proud of his faith. I don’t really give a shit about football, but I REALLY don’t give a shit about his fucking faith. Please, [...]

It isn’t necessary to look for evidence that the right wing is insane, but it’s fun. A small example that dropped my jaw on Friday night. I was watching McLaughlin on PBS. I don’t know why I subject myself to it but I’ve always enjoyed the shouting match, and for the past few years McLaughlin’s [...]