Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
The Basis of Borat?
Early internet sensation Mahir Cagri of “I kiss you!” fame is now claiming that Sacha Baron Cohen’s character is based on him. Check out his old site — he’s got a point. The moustache, the broken English, the ping pong, the tiny bathing suit, the bragging about having basic acctrouments of Western modernity — […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Watching the Real Estate Bust in Real-Time
So the real estate market is still continuing the downward slump that began with Hurricane Katrina:
U.S. existing home prices dropped a record 3.5 percent last month, compared with the same month a year earlier, while the total number of residences sold fell 11.5 percent compared with October 2005, according to an industry report released yesterday….
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Women and Minorities are not the Problem
They’re the ‘08 leaders. Not to pile on, since Thomas Edsall’s weekend column has been so ably dissected by Ezra and Ben already, but I do think Edsall’s piece also needs to be considered in light of the fact that the two leading Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton and Barack […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
News, but no surprise
“Women priests given ‘dregs’ in Church of England”:
Women priests are given the worst positions in the Church of England even though they make up half of all newly ordained ministers, research published on Sunday said.
The church ordained its first women priests in 1994 but new entrants have predominately been given unpaid roles while their male […]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Some Carving Advice
Apparently some people have trouble carving turkeys. Between having had experience as line and prep cook in my teens (where I dealt with large numbers of roasted fowl), and my repressed surgical impulses (loved, loved, LOVED dissecting), I’ve become designated carver for all family occasions. Some words of advice:
1) Never try to cut through […]
