Food Porn

I have always felt that there was a "money shot" in every foodie show (*not that I would ever..*)  This is just a bit more over the top than the usual "over-ripe" peach.

You Be The Judge

FWIW

To continue the Sarah Palin thread, she was speaking to a wingnut radio host recently and was saying something along the lines of / Americans are really excited to have someone of the Joe Six Pack mentality in the office of the Vice President/. 

Stop Right There Sister - 

I expect better.  I expect the people who represent me to be the exact inverse of "Joe Six Pack". 

I am Joe Six Pack (or more accurately Jean 750ml Chardonnay) and I have neither the work ethic nor the knowledge to serve as the vice president (Dan Quale not withstanding).  Hell, Ben Kingsley playing vice president in the movie "Dave" (which incidently is the "Pretty Woman" of political movies) is more convincing than either I or Sarah Palin.  And I think that makes me a "Good American", a "Patriot" if you will.  To expect our leaders to be self aware, knowledgeable, earnest and hard working and to know the limits of their ability should be a pre-requisite of citizeneship.  The dark underbelly of American egalitarianism (one of our better traits) is the notion that all men being equal in the eyes of the law means that all men are equal.  Call me a Chardonnay guzzling elitist (please) but not all men are equal (and here I mean the race of man, my apologies ladies).  Fabio (was) better looking than me.  Paul Newman was more generous, a better thespian, and a better driver than me - and to add insult to injury, both better looking and richer too.  Rush Limbaugh is a better entertainer than me.  And John Stewart and David Letterman are better than Rush.  Point being, not everyone can do every job equally, and someone who can't even name which magazines they read (not even a moldering Metropolitan Home in the dentists office) should not pass any true Patriots muster.  American exceptionalism is not about the mean.  Faux populism gets you Hugo Chavez.

Baby Name Widget -Very Cool

Popularity of names starting with BLAKE

New Music

A Few New Music Notes

The Blind Boys of Alabama (first formed in 1939) have a new album with the N.O. Preservation Hall Jazz Band.  I have only heard one track, but that track was great.

New B.B. of A. 

Also I really love this Radiohead video done with no "cameras".  It is done with radar technology. Here is a page with the video as well as the "making of".

House of Cards

Putin Rears His Head

A note about google apps -

Last week, I paid my $50 and migrated my davidboucher.com e-mail off of Network Solutions and moved it to gmail.  The process was pretty smooth and painless with a few exceptions. Some existing google services (notably Blogger and Picasa) will not work with your google apps account. You actually end up with 2 seperate google accounts - even if you make the account name and pwd the same.  While this is a relatively small inconvenience, if you aren't aware of this limitation you'll probably spend time trying to debug the problem.  

Democrat Party

One of my pet peeves is when conservatives refer to the Democrat party

This is Too Funny

And Soo True