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I dreamed about the financial crisis the other day, and let’s not even talk about the election, so I thought I’d post the recipe for this raspberry-rosé sorbet I made for Debbie’s birthday in July. It’s tasty.

Raspberry-Rosé Sorbet
2 cups rosé wine (not too sweet)
2/3 cups sugar
3 cups raspberries
In a medium saucepan, bring the rosé and [...]

Truckloads of bailout-related commentary are available at other, much better blogs near you (my crush on heartthrob Krugman continues), which are actually becoming moderately interesting as I figure out what things like “deleveraging” mean. But all facts of the case aside (don’t you love arguments that begin that way), when the Bush administration comes at [...]

This is cool. More policy questions should be answered with web-widgets.

Wow, how ’bout that economy, huh? All the chaos this week has really given me a new perspective on things, so I’m going to do as certain of my extended family always suspected I would when I became older and wiser and paid more taxes: toss my allegiance to the Republican Party, that bastion of [...]

Since I’ve been paying attention, education reform has seemed to defy easy political categorization. I found this article a nice explanation of how that happened, from a missed-Democratic-opportunity perspective. And you can tell it’s a serious article about education because it includes the mandatory “Nation at Risk” citation.

We read Paul Krugman’s book Peddling Prosperity in the macroeconomics class I took in college, and I remember the professor—himself a moderate conservative—saying Krugman wasn’t “as liberal as he thought he was.”
Well, maybe the Bush administration was enough to push everyone a little left-er. Regardless, I’m developing kind of a crush.

in a talk on campus called “The Audacity of Despair” last night:
“Am I really telling you to get in bed and pull the covers over your head? Well, that’s not a bad option.”
Following the political news lately, I’m inclined to agree.

Tribute to Murphy, Hall family dog 1995-2008. Even though I never once fed him or picked up his poo (yes, family, I’m pretty sure that’s true), he usually remembered me when I came back to Dallas and did try to push me out of bed on a number of occasions. Cameron is assembling an album [...]