Kevin Drum is probably onto something with his decision to eschew the crazy and focus on the relative healthiness of avocados. As far as I am concerned, they’re filled with fat. And Californians put them on too many things. It won’t be easy passing the time until the election returns get in. I recommend doing some serious GOTV. Or, if you must blog, tell me why we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?
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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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a project that I am associated with scheduled a major national meeting on Nov 4. That means that I leave on Nov. 3 (Monday) at noon to fly to Philly, spend 3 days there (including election day), and have a meeting to run on Election Day itself. There is actually a good reason for this, but not good enough. What’s even more galling is that we lost the project and are basically having to present the last parts of our component, wasting Election Day with this dead project. Pisses the living shit out of me, I’ll tell you. Plus my knee is all fucked up, so I cannot do door-to-door. I have been calling a fair amount (probably 300 calls in the last 3 days), and the Obama website is really impressive for calling.
But sitting in a hotel room during election day doing some fucking lame-ass presentation on a project which has not been good for us is just the height of annoyance. I do plan on hitting a good bar on Tuesday night, and believe that, despite my dropping the ball at the end, that some good news well come out.
well, at least you can celebrate in Philly.
you should come to Pure and party with the gay.
all the cool people show up at some point during the night.
Sounds great – can you give me directions? I need at least a street address. I have no idea where i will be, but can Mapquest to locate.
http://www.purephilly.com/
people start gathering after 8 or 9
i dont know where you are staying but there are tons of restaurants in that area and its right downtown.
Looks fun. I am not sure where the hotel is, but probably downtown.
I can relate – I’ll be in Cincinnati Monday and Tuesday on business, but I’ll be back in the Ville for the election returns.
Avocados are highly over rated. Like peaches, very few are any good (unless picked out of some ones back yard), and 9 out of 10 times they are prepared wrong.
I live in the center of the avocado universe (north san diego county) and rarely touch ’em. They are the all hat, no cattle of fruit.
nalbar
peaches are amazing
avocados …not so much
They grow plentifully here on neighborhood trees in Florida. I think it’s a different variety from the CA avocados, and these are much larger. The only bad ones are the ones that the squirrels get to first.
We fed our daughter avocado in her very young years because some research shows it has nutritional value for developing brains (omega-3 fatty acids). And she loved to splatter it everywhere.
Now, she’s a genius (of course!)
one of life’s great enigmas.
riddle me this, booman…where does the light go, when the light goes out?
l’ll be shuttling people, mostly seniors and disabled, to the polls all day tuesday…have done before, and it’s amazing the response. it looks to be a very busy and long day.
out.
out out…
but it promised to write about it, so it’s okay.
/fod
guacamole.
Usually made wrong. Too spicy and to much ‘junk’ thrown in. They turn what should be ‘pure’ into salsa.
Fat is good, let it shine.
nalbar
Avocados. You don’t like ’em, don’t eat ’em. Leave the artichokes for me too. Mmmmm.
Another peek into the retched life of Palestinians in Gaza. The hospitals are without even basic services. The population is under immense pressure, its affecting them physically and mentally.
And all this despite the fact that Ehud Olmert, who has recently been heard in public singing “Amazing Grace” at the top of his voice is still Prime Minister.
Talk is cheap, Ehud. Actions speak louder than all your righteous yapping, so why don’t you take some actions on all those lovely words you spoke not so very long ago, you bloody hypocrite?
Hey man, more for me. I’ll take it.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. What’s the speed of dark?
Forget avocados, olives are the way to go.
I’m working as a democratic legal observer at the polls election day, which is an all day gig.
And I swear, I’ve got to remember to go early vote on Monday myself, because I won’t have time on Tuesday.
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Could be synonymous with parkway. Although in the crowded metropolitan areas, the only available spot to park is the … parkway. At least on your own property you can avoid congestion and usually drive-a-way.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."…and recite at a play.
At least, that’s the way that Richard Lederer explains it.
One of the things I did this weekend was to figure out how to be able to see that CBC documentary, The Bush Years. It is blocked everywhere except in Canada, as it turns out, due to copyright issues. Well, I had my friend in Canada download it from You Tube and send it to me, and I have successfully uploaded parts of it there. You Tube has sent me e-mails for each part I have uploaded telling me it is copyrighted, and they will leave it, but they will block it everywhere except Canada. However, I have been able to play it, so it seems it is not blocked here – at least not yet.
Anyone who is interested in seeing it, try playing the parts I have uploaded so far and let me know how it works. If you search for The Bush Years you should find it.
Avacados are the perfect fruit. You just have to know how to select them. Not too soft and not too hard. Stay away from the big bright green ones from California. They’re only good for puree with sour cream. Stick to the Haas brand if you can. If they are too hard, place them in a paper bag and put them in a dark place for a day or two. A squeeze of lime, a little garlic, some chili and it goes with almost anything.
Party when they do everything in their power to crush third parties?