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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Food. What the heck do I fix for dinner number 9,163? I get yer package of chicken thighs thawing on the counter and damn it hasn’t turned itself into a satisfying meal no matter how long I stare at it.
Have I got an tantilizing, easy recipe for you. Mom served this 2 months ago- and everyone raves.
Throw those thighs in a dutch oven (or something like it).
Toss on a jar of salsa (choose your spice level to suit yourself)
Add a couple tablespoons of honey, about 1.5 teaspoons of cinnamon and a good handful of raisins. Swish the salsa jar with some water and toss it in.
Put it in the oven for a couple hours, at 350 ish, stirring occasionally.
Serve over couscous.
Believe it or not, this is called Moroccan chicken and it tastes soooo exotic and rich. I’ve got to make some myself.
(I said “an tantilizing” because I took out the word “amazing” but forgot to change the article. “Amazing” hasn’t been the same since Bush started using it.
That sounds yummy, and I think I have everything but the couscous. Maybe rice will do.
Should be just fine. Plus, while you get to relax and read BooTrib, your house will be filling with the most wonderful smell.
Just emailed you the current chicken thigh favorite at our house…
Gosh, that looks good too. You guys are so quick on the uptake, maybe we should have a nightly “what the heck is for dinner with these ingredients on hand” diary.
So I snuck this Hamburger Helper thing in, it had penne pasta with some cheese like sprinkles that were supposed imitate parmesan and the secret flavoring was supposed to give it an italian sausage taste. I put it in front of my five year old son and returned to the kitchen to dish up my plate when I heard this horrible screech. My son makes his own words and language up just like George Bush and he doesn’t give a fig if you feel it is necessary to correct him or not, that’s your problem (wow, George acts like a 5 year old….just shocking). MOM!!!! IS THIS HELP BURGER?!?!
Wow, they ought to change the name to Help Burger, which is actually way more descriptive and accurate!
My kids did the same thing with making words up, or rather just hearing it differently. Among my favorites are:
Oil of Olay = Oil of Old Age
instructions = destructions
beside+against = begainst
After trading barbs with Mrs.boran2 my mind is on temporary hiatus. The joys of marriage. 😉
than to engage in a battle of wits with the unarmed… 😉
my mind is covered in brains.
Tall dark stranger walking in the door and sweeping me off my feet, taking me to a warm tropical island and feeding me peeled grapes. Oops, that was last night!
You need a Diana Krall CD titled “Love Scenes”! #2 cut is “Peel Me A Grape”. I kid you not!
I will check it out! LOL
Starting a new, part time job tonight. I’m quite nervous.
about Woodwards book “Plan of Attack”, if you have not read it or what a refresh on certain things that I found interesting check it out
what carpet cleaner will work best to get peach-colored smoothie stains out of beige carpet…
Oh, and wondering how much longer we’re going to have to put up with governmental incompetance… 🙁
Are you going to have the carpet cleaned professionally? Look for a product called HOST. There are only three dealers who use this Dry process in Michigan. Fortunately one is about a mile and a half from my home. The product and the process are excellent. You can walk on the carpet right away. It is really good, IMHO.
(Resolve) — it worked like a charm. We’ll probably use it on a few other areas of the carpet whenever we get this disaster area cleaned up; our landlord will have our carpets professionally cleaned next September when we re-up on the lease. (Rental living does have it’s perks…)
Thanks for the recommendation, though… 🙂
With the dogs in and out of the house I have used the Resolve for heavy traffic that is the sprinkles that are brushed in and vacuumed up when dry and that works nice and also the spray Resolve for stains that sink to the padding. It works swell with these furry sometimes muddy and occasionally sprinkling dogs…..and spills from the juice boxes of little boys too.
My foot fell asleep. Is it distressing that I enjoy the way it feels when it wakes back up?
P.S. Operation Yellow Feather needs your help!
AND I AM ON COMING CLOSE TO AN INFORMATION OVERLOAD…
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Too much information. My mind is definately mush today.
I posted the previous comment before this thread even existed… (according to the dates on them?)
Damn! I’m fast.
New iMac G5 sitting in my (north) office when I got into work today. C-O-O-L! Got all the pieces out of the box and on the desk, but no time to get it going and try it out before having to take off for the southwest campus. Going to run teach ’em about the immune system now. See ya later.
Spouse and I decided to hold off on new desktop system till after MacWorld SF beginning of January; can usually get some good deals, and it’s possible that the Mactels (Macs with Intel processors) may be introduced — it’s about the one big thing in the pipeline, but of course Steve Jobs is famous for totally taking attendees off guard (“Oh, and one more thing…”).
Already have my registration done; upgraded to an actual conference ticket so I get to attend Jobs’ Keynote this year… 🙂
that you’re going to MacWorld.
What will be the advantage of the Mactel’s? I haven’t been keeping up with such news.
I don’t really have any control over what the college buys me for work – just very grateful that they are still willing to buy Macs for those of us who think Windows is crap. I got the iMac because I’m on the list this year for replacing my old computer (a G3 w/ 400mb ram etc.)
As for my home/personal one, I’ll just stick with my G4 iBook for now. I just spent a small fortune replacing its dead hard drive, data retrieval (I hadn’t done a real back up since July!!! – ugh – expensive lesson learned) – and a portable hard drive, so I hope I use it to back up more often. And, hope this one will last me another year or two . . . It’s fine really for my purposes. The G3 was adequate, too for that matter, but I’ll take a new one at work if they’re buying.
What happened to “Spike” and “Political Animals”?
Wooly and friends are on vacation until December 5th. The link takes you to Spike’s homepage, with plenty of archive-goodness 🙂
Thanks for the link! I am glad Spike will be back. I have enjoyed looking for his one liners here.
Did we ever get a satisfactory reason for Catnip’s departure?
Easier to get info re: Canadian citizenship than it is info re: Medicare D
Wonder if that is telling me something??
I loved your diary — Thanks for all the work!
Your welcome! People just have to realize what is really going on and who is getting screwed….
Insomnia… damn.
I’m the executive director of a non-profit working with trouble kids in this community.
Our organization has been around for over 30 years bouncing from one rental space to another. We’re just finishing a due diligence period on a possible building purchase and might be launching a capital campaign to raise (hopefully) $1.8 million.
In the midst of all this – those damn repugs are working to cut Medicaid and there is the potential that we could loose about a third of our operating budget as a result (we do case management with a group of kids who are covered by Medicaid and are currently open cases in our child protection system).
I’m just totally frusterated and feel pretty powerless.
I know that I’ve heard for years that children don’t get heard in our political processes. But when I hear even those who are advocating against the current proposed cuts, NO ONE is talking about this. I’ve heard that if the worst of the cuts go through, our county’s child welfare system will loose 25% of its funding. I can’t write any more about this right now – it just makes me so sad!!
I am guardian ad litem of a 17 year old boy who dropped out of school in the ninth grade. I’ve been trying to find community programs that would help him continue his education or acquire work skills, and just basically give him a chance in life. He will age out of the system in a few months and then there will be absolutely no help available to him. There are so very few options for him even now and it just breaks my heart because he’s a good kid but you can just see the path his life will take if no one is able to convince him to change direction right now.
80% of the kids I dealt with daily needed love and chances…….even chances to screw up daily like my daughter gets (sneaking off with cars in the dead of night, I know it happened but damn it I didn’t wake up to catch her red handed and she’ll just lawyer me to death if I challenge her…..yes, she is a well loved teenager). If children have the parents they need to buffer and be abused when they are teens they can survive growing up in our American culture, if nobody loves them and pays the occasional court fees for wilder ones they can feel free to find their way to the gutter. WHEN IT COMES TO OUR YOUTH, AMERICA FUCKING SUCKS I fought it until I couldn’t sleep at night and it was too draining on my own energies and affecting my daughter. God Bless you Secondnature!!!!
Uh, oh…the Absinthe sl…wh…beauty is back! That siren of sin….luring we naive and innocent men to the intoxicating vice of Absinthe….
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2282672005
If true…?
Bad hair day?
I need a pedicure.
I have bad hair and bad eyebrows. I wish someone would stage an intervention, since I don’t seem to have the imagination to take care of that stuff myself.
(If anyone in Kansas City is reading this — consider it a plea for help)
I found hair on the back of one yesterday that I could braid! What is happening to me?
Well, at least your thighs aren’t right there at eye-level, like my eyebrows (naturally) are. I’m starting to get them confused with my bangs (which are also out of control)
i went to a new nail place sat for maicure/pedicure…took my girlfriend who just got her second set of new boobs after her old doc botched the first set…i felt she needed some pampering and hell i always need pampering.
i have been to a lot of salons and gotten all kinds of treatments but this place was just amazing…in addition to the usual stuff they did hot towels and a hot mint lotion rub at the end of the pedicure, from the knees down…plus they had these awesome chairs that give you a deep tissue grinding back massage that at first i thought was gonna throw me out of my seat.
and it was only $25.
i want one of those chairs bad…..and id like a little korean boy thrown in to give me one of those pedicures every day.
Hmmm…where was this place? I’m headed down to University City this afternoon…
in delaware…on marsh rd
i almost never get to the city anymore since i moved down here…i do come in every 6 weeks so jon christopher can do my hair….he is a color genius….but since i moved to delaware i had to find a goo dnail place down here and after trying 4 of them i think i finally hit the jackpot.
Went to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign‘s 10th Birthday Party last night, where Senator Feingold was honored with the clean govt watchdog group’s annual “Mr. Smith” award, or “Smithy”. He mentioned that Mr. Smith goes to Washington is one of the few films he owns, (cheapskate joke) having bought a copy right after he was first elected, and watched it repeatedly, to the point his kids complained.
After Russ speech, they drew a door prize raffle , with the grand prize a DVD of the 1939 Capra classic “Mr. Smith.” Number 8033, yours truly.
Giggles as I approach the stage, but only from those who knew I’m running for Wisconsin’s other Senate seat.
(I know I really should include some of Russ’ speech and make it a diary, but that’s not happening tonight. One tidbit: his next bill aims to tighten the rules on lobbyists’ gifts to Reps and staffers. Best horror story: the current limit is $50. Luxury skyboxes for DC sports teams are officially valued at $49.99 .)
In the hallway, Russ complemented my replies on the Patriot Act thread here, mentioned he’d read everything posted. Alas, I didn’t think to hit him up for a $1 contribution.
The evening’s musical guest, Peter Leidy, debuted a song, Russ, I wanna be your Vice President. I later advised him to pick up a residence in Wyoming, as the Constitution forbids a State’s electors voting for a Prez and Veep both from that State.
That’s Russ’ Patriot Act post on kos, not “here.”
GRRRRRRRR ….
ORANGE DIARY POLICE PEOPLE