Tradition has it that the soft-shell crab season is marked with the first full moon in May. This past weekend, which happened to be the last weekend in May—full moon or not—Dick and I bought half a dozen. You want to buy them live, and directions for cleaning the critters are pretty straightforward, assuming you […]
Health Care’s Solyndra
The $27 billion spent on EHR (electronic health records) is money squandered, writes Charles Krauthammer. It has demoralized good physicians and led to patient neglect. I was reminded of this exchange upon receiving my med-school class’s 40th-reunion report and reading some of the entries. In general, my classmates felt fulfilled by family, friends and the […]
The Miracle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The only olive oil worthy of your consideration is extra virgin, but even the extra-virgin label doesn’t necessarily mean the oil is any good, writes Nancy Harmon Jenkins, perhaps the leading American authority on olive oil. In her latest book, Virgin Territory, Ms. Jenkins disputes the myths, half-truths and outright lies about this “good fat […]
Anticipating Experiencing Considerable Precipitation—RIP William Zinsser
William Zinsser died this month at the age of 92, at home, in his own bed, in his sleep. Does it get much better than that? Mr. Zinsser wrote 19 books. His most famous, On Writing Well, sold a million-and-a half copies, with the 30th anniversary edition issued in 2006. Mr. Zinsser’s clear, concise advice […]
Summertime and Rosé Is Easy
Is there anything more cliché ridden than calling rosé “food friendly”? It sort of like calling mustard and ketchup BBQ friendly, which of course is all true. Rosé wine is versatile because it lies somewhere between the extremes of red and white wines—more depth than a light white, but less intense than big, tannic reds. […]
Tired, Failed Policies of Yesterday
“Apparently the $22 trillion we’ve spent fighting poverty since 1965 — including just under $1 trillion last year — isn’t enough,” writes the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner. In the aftermath of the Baltimore riots, Democrats have been calling for more “investments” to fight poverty. Barack Obama wants “massive investments in urban communities.” Baltimore Rep. Elijah […]
“If We Had Known What We Know Now”
It most likely will not be just Jeb Bush who will make flubs over the Iraq war. During the upcoming presidential campaigns, we can expect more false information, political reinvention, and revisionist analyses of the invasion, surge, and occupation of Iraq. As Victor Davis Hanson writes in NRO, candidates will be readjusting their positions to […]
Does Olive Oil Improve with Age?
Nancy Harmon Jenkins, food writer and guru to Mediterranean cuisines, has just published her 7th cookbook, Virgin Territory: Exploring the World of Olive Oil, in which she explains many of the misconceptions we all have about olive oil. For example, olive oil does not improve with age, and “light” olive oil has the same calories […]
Job-Killing, Economy-Stifling Ideas
Guess what NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, Massachusett’s senator Elizabeth Warren, economist Joseph Stiglitz, DNC chairman Howard Dean, various union bosses, and celebrities Susan Sarandon and Steve Buscemi have in common? Their version of a Contract with America. “But for all the glitter associated with its big-name signers,” writes Cato Institute’s senior fellow Michael Tanner, […]
Chasing Windmills
Green energy is being crushed. Over the next 20 years, most of America’s energy is not going to come from windmills and solar panels, writes economist Stephen Moore. With the boom in shale oil and gas and the steep decline in the price of fossil fuel, marketing wind power in an environment of $3 natural […]
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