Anyone see a problem here? In Hong Kong apartments the size of a parking spot are selling for $516,000 reports the WSJ. The apartment, in a development called High Place, isn’t much bigger than the standard U.S. parking space. It went into contract in May for almost four million Hong Kong dollars (US$516,000.) Even by […]
Mosquito Apartments
Greetings from Philipsburg, Montana
Django and Jimmie – It’s All Going to Pot
One of the strongest, most engaging country albums of 2015, writes Barry Mazor in the WSJ, comes from two long-time friends, one of whom is 82 and the other 78. “With Jimmie Rodgers-like audacity and sentiment, and Django Reinhardt style invention and swing, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have been pursuing similar courses for over […]
The Worst President in American History, Part III
In Wilson’s War—How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led To Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II, historian Jim Powell explains how WWI was stalemated for three years. From the war’s outset, it appeared unlikely that one side would be able to dominate the other. —The Germans had better generals-less inclined to squander the lives of […]
My First Drum Set and The Killers
If you’re a drummer or a musician then you know–you never forget your first drum set or instrument. I started playing drums in the first grade taking private lessons and practicing on a drum pad. Then I moved up to a snare drum. And I would set up buckets around the snare and bang away […]
So Easy When You Know How
Beautiful Savory Swimmers and Fine Eating
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 […]
Food Horror
Animal Factory starts readers off: “While human sewage is treated to kill pathogens, animal waste is not. Hog manure has ten to one hundred times more concentrated pathogens than human waste, yet the law would never permit untreated human waste to be kept in vast ‘lagoons’ or sprayed onto fields, as is the case with […]
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 […]
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