All The Little Things –

Let’s slow down our frenetic lives and save a few dollars along the way with suggestions from this New York Times article. Be brave!

“MOST people don’t look for adventure in supermarket meat bins. But those cuts with baffling names and alluring prices fascinate me.

Beef chuck deckle, $1.99 a pound! Beef chuck seven-bone steak, $2.69!

The mystery of these cuts’ labels, I learned, was what kept down their price. With the right techniques, a lot of unfamiliar meats in the supermarket can be more delicious than more expensive cuts.”

The author goes on to describe how to prepare each cut, recipes included. Don’t forget that many slow cooked meats are gifts that keep on giving — great bones for soup, broths, and — ta da! — leftovers, noshing! Who needs a daily 30 minute meal/chore when you can cook once and the food can be used with imagination and good taste for the next 3 days?

I know a lot of us don’t cook this way anymore, or at all (you really should work on that!). But aren’t some of your best memories from your mother’s or grandpa’s home — the Sunday morning pot roast aromas, the pies on the counter?

Local forecasts are calling for a cold front to ooze through here tomorrow (Wednesday) and stall near the North Carolina line before pushing back north of our area on Friday. This would put us firmly in the warm sector, and the above graphic shows som…

My target for tomorrow would be just north of Plainview TX in mid-late afternoon. The models look like they’re predicting a dryline bulge in that area along with high CAPE (convective potential) levels, so that’s where I’d locate by 3:00 pm tomorrow a…

According to a new poll from Survey USA, Terry McAuliffe now has the support of 38% of primary voters. Moran and Deeds are tied at 22% each.
Head-to-Head:
44% McDonnell (R)
39% Deeds (D)
17% Undecided
46% McDonnell (R)
39% McAuliffe (D)
15% Undecided
46% McDonnell (R)
34% Moran (D)
19% Undecided
Asked of 1396 registered voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 2.7%
[…]

Right after the stimulus package passed Congress, with zero votes from House Republicans, a lot of those same GOP Reps proceeded to issue press releases bragging about bringing money and jobs to their constituents.
Now, even the guy in charge of keeping those Republicans from voting “NO,” House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, has joined in (via HuffPo):
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cantor […]

DAVID ESPO, AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON – Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties Tuesday with a suddenness that stunned the Senate, a moderate’s defection that left Democrats one seat shy of a 60-vote filibuster…

One of the shrewdest pols in DC, Sen. Arlen Specter, has become a D.
More on this breaking story from philly.com.

Manolith.com has posted a graphical timeline of the History of Beer. While there may be some historical errors or omissions, the chart is a novel, and humorous, look at some of the milestones in the history of beer. Some interesting points in time incl…

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