Received two books in the mail today – this is the one I opened first:

All 19 pages of it! (2 of those pages are photos). But it was supposed to be signed, and it wasn’t. Almost a bigger disappointment than her decision not to challenge Vitter.

The reveal of my second literary acquisition will follow ….

This is how I like to see my tax dollars spent:

And hey – it’s only 3 light years tall … road trip!

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Too tired to put this up last night – it took 5 hours start to finish. I had forgotten that the stew has to spend 3-4 hours in the oven.  The finished product:

And yes – it was worth it. The result was delicious. The only change for next time is 2 pans for browning the meat – you can’t get a conventional stove hot enough to brown 3 pounds of meat at once. Complete recipe after the jump.
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In roughly five seven hours, thirty forty dollars worth of ingredients will become either Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon or a smoking pile of culinary wreckage.  Unless I chicken out and order Indian. And after I clean the stove.

Bachmann sure can stir ’em up:

The twenty-six percent who believe Bush was a great president will always be with us.

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Stephen Baldwin—the least Baldwin of all the Baldwins—is bankrupt and talentless. Luckily, he came up with a plan to make money that requires no talent or work: It is a website called restorestephenbaldwin.org. Let’s make a donation! [Gawker]

William K. Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law, the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-HTylLzXu8