One Revelation After Another Undercut Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Credibility
A phone call a housekeeper made after she said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn was part of a series of statements, fabrications and associations that unraveled the case.What this tale says to me is a deeply corrupt prosecutors office found an excuse to shirk their duty.This presents a real problem. To New York, to Washington and to Paris.-
For Hot Dogs, a Push for Truthful Labels
Manufacturers of processed meats like frankfurters are pushing for more accurate labeling rules when it comes to cancer-causing nitrite and nitrate.Tell the industry to sit down and shut up.Do the research. There are lots of volunteers for free food. If there is a safe limit we should know. If there is no safe limit we should know.In the face of ignorance there can be no ban. We must settle for an honest label. Nitrate and Nitrite are simple chemicals. I can think of no difference between organic and inorganic sources. Nitrosamines are formed in the food and do not depend on the source of the nitrogen. -
Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
A friend of Ernest Hemingway recalls the last year of his life, when he suffered from depression and paranoia.Yes, he was paranoid. And yes, they were after him.The Red Menace collapsed from its own philosophical failings.Our right can't get that through their head. -
Make Food Choices Simple: Cook
Mark Bittman discovers choice.
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The Young and Entrepreneurial Move to Downtown Detroit, Pushing Its Economic Recovery
Detroit, a city whose downtown is better known for its recent economic decline, is drawing a number of college-educated people under age 35.The Kids are desperate too.I will live where you do but I will not choose Detroit.As of last report there is cheap space but no other reason to be there."Those who could move did leaving those who can't move."This corpse is brain dead. -
U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia
New evidence indicates that Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen and the Islamist militancy in Somalia are possibly plotting attacks against the United States.The military is fighting unemployment in its own way. -
Bjork’s ‘Biophilia’ at the Manchester International Festival
For her latest venture, “Biophilia,” Björk has brought together recording-studio collaborators, instrument makers, smartphone app designers, scientists and a musicologist.Pipe dream. More music, less glitter.It is not up to opera. Aspirations are not performance. -
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Is Released From House Arrest
In a court hearing, prosecutors acknowledged serious problems with the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who said that Dominique Strauss-Kahn attacked her.What a mess. We will see if this burlesque act survives. I expect he will be back in jail in a few days. -
Paperback Game: Fun With Literary Opening Lines
The paperback game — a variation on games with poetry or Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations — lets players create their own opening sentences to genre novels.Never been that fond of bodice rippers. I have read enough junk but most of it is soon gone. I am not sorry to lose it. -
Conservative Cash Crop
This is not even a good hatchet job.
She is just barking mad. I would pitty her if she were not so dangerous.
When Germany tolerated this kind of a voice in politics we had the second world war.
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Minnesota Government Shuts in Budget Fight
All but services deemed essential cease amid an impasse between two sides with fundamentally different approaches to a $5 billion deficit.The Republicans consider the shut-down a win. Lets make sure they wear it into the next election. -
Court Overturns Michigan Affirmative-Action Ban
State voters passed a ban on the consideration of race and gender in college admissions in 2006.The policy and the ban on the policy are bad. Eventually the policy should not be needed. That time is not yet. How to know when the policy is not needed escapes me. Perhaps when it is not noticed it can die. -
Slavery in the Modern Age
Anyone who thinks slavery ended with the 13th Amendment is not paying attention.True. Union. -
In Italy’s Collio Wine Region, Touring Vineyards by Vespa
Quiet roads along the hills of the Collio wine region lead to a jovial crew of benevolent hosts and some of Italy’s crispest whites.Touring by Vespa has real appeal. Vinyards only at the end of the day.I would like to skip them entirely. -
Pay Workers Fairly and Save Money
President Obama should mandate, in an executive order, that all federal contractors obey the wage and hour laws already on the books.My great uncle John spent the second half of his career trying to get contractors to settle for the agreed payments. Apparently they could not believe that they would be paid enough to pay their workers and themselves.Ninety years is a long time for a problem to persist. -
Fighting Over Rain Forest Ipe in Coney Island Boardwalk
The city’s efforts to stop using endangered tropical hardwoods as it replaces the Coney Island Boardwalk’s planks raise aesthetic, pragmatic and linguistic issues.Let's try it without the garbage trucks and police cars.How many cans between road access? People will work for not much money. put a crew out with hand trucks to change through the cans, sweep up and generally do the maintenance. People need simple jobs, here is a simple job. -
Tracing Unscooped Dog Waste Back to the Culprit
Canine DNA is now being used to identify the culprits who fail to clean up after their pets.This will draw a lynch mob soon. I don't want to pay for the analysis or the managers vengeful tantrums. There are many things to fight over and this is unnecessary. -
Marriage Law Makes for a Busy Wedding Season in New York State
Busy wedding locations are yet another challenge to those who are now free to marry in New York State.So pick another venue. Your state does not have this problem yet.Sooner is better. - - - - As soon as you can is best.I LOVE YOU -
Live Analysis: Wimbledon Women's Final
WIMBLEDON, England — The Wimbledon picnickers on Aorangi Terrace, better known as Henman Hill, were being serenaded earlier this afternoon by a brass band playing the Beatles ballad: “The Long and Winding Road.”We are low on new music these days. -
Hackers Disable Orlando Web Sites
The hacker group Anonymous disabled several Web sites as punishment for the city’s arrests of people who help feed the homeless.
John Belushi in animal house. Just a meaningless gesture.The City is wrong, the Hackers are wrong. Florida is wrong. I have no idea how to fix this detail. Feeding them only encourages more. Not feeding them does not help either. Bus tickets to Arizona? With Food on the way? That would be just a tease. Arizona would send them back with interest.
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