COMensarations
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The Orwellian Nature of ‘Affirmative Action’
An interesting essay on political correctness and the division of a nation.
I am reminded by this article how angrily I filled out my form during the last national census. I struck through EVERY question about race, creed, color, etc., etc., etc., etc....ad nauseam, and scrawled American as my reply.
I did this based on several decades of military service and remembering a famous, nameless company First Sergeant who, when being questioned about his attitude regarding Equal Opportunity by the Annual General Inspection ‘inquisitor’ about Equal Rights replied....
When I look at that formation every morning, I don’t see black, white, brown, red or yellow. All I see is GREEN.
Try THIS Next Weekend — 071118
Tasty suggestions for a weekend of culinary pleasure. And a pleasant change of pace after two days of feasting on occidental turkey.
I’m going to start doing this sort of thing every week or so, as a way to bring fine food and beverage to everyones attention.
This offering is a discovery about Asian cooking. You’ve heard of teriyaki sauce. Used on such delicious dishes as teriyaki chicken, Japanese barbecued chicken, a.k.a. yakatori.
I’ve figured out how to do a variation on teriyaki sauce, known as tsuekeyaki sauce. It is more flavorful as it has honey and lemon in it.
Here’s how you make it.....
Evil, Mad Genius at Work
Welcome to America!
US got a LOT to be thankful for. And Mark Steyn is just the guy to explain it to the Europeans. And a few confused Americans too.
My favorite is...
And just when you think you’re on top of the general trend of novelty, it veers off in an entirely different direction: Continentals who grew up on Hollywood movies where the guy tells the waitress “Gimme a cuppa joe” and slides over a nickel return to New York a year or two later and find the coffee now costs $5.75, takes 25 minutes and requires an agonizing choice between the cinnamon-gingerbread-persimmon latte with coxcomb sprinkles and the decaf venti pepperoni-Eurasian-milfoil macchiato.
Who would have foreseen that the nation that inflicted fast food and drive-thru restaurants on the planet would then take the fastest menu item of all and turn it into a Kabuki-paced performance art? What mad genius!