A spoonful of sugar. Taken from the BBC’s Good Foods Glossary. The best advice I ever received came from a fictional umbrella-toting nanny. “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,” she sang. The irony is that taking this piece of advice at face value, it’s often wrong. Most liquid medicines are already sweetened [...] Read more »
Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
“I really wish I could be there,” Jen tells me. “Hopefully they’ll have another in four years.” “Where?” “The inauguration.” “They have one every four years,” I reply. “No, I mean for Obama.” I understand that she likes the guy. She considers herself a Chicagoan and worked on his campaign. She’s progressive and young and [...] Read more »
As if it weren’t enough that the president-elect got his own origin story in a comic before he got elected, the upcoming January 14 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man will be featuring the nation’s first black president as a side-kick. Lisa Tolin of the Associated Press reports that Joe Queseda, Marvel Comic’s editor-in-chief, was so [...] Read more »
It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »
The moat around the old city in Chiang Mai glows late at night. For more brilliant pictures of Thailand, click here. I guess it’s simply the luck of the draw that no matter how good a time we have in our destination, our travel between places just doesn’t quite work out. Standing in the train [...] Read more »