Comments on: Soup without tears.

By: basset

basset — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:58:01 +0000

We made the cream of cauliflower, but with broccoli and no cream, just a little milk that happened to be part of some leftover potato soup I threw in there. Carrots for color, potato cubes for texture, wasn’t bad at all.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:49:44 +0000

I made the roasted garlic and white cheddar soup for dinner tonight, aided by our very own “kitchen vibrator” (thx alice!) and it was delicious. Thank you Nancy for sharing the recipe!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:32:08 +0000

It is so true that the Republicans have figured out that attractiveness sells… Except when it comes to people like Rush, then it’s bully-ness. If you can’t be attractive be a bully, that seems to be the strategy. When you look at the “babes” on Fox, it’s just so obvious how shallow it is. I will say that Obama is attractive and that probably didn’t hurt him one bit. Edwards just got creepier and creepier as his campaign progressed. He seemed super obsessed with his looks as time went on.

By: Jeff Borden

Jeff Borden — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:20:47 +0000

Maybe someday John Edwards will make a sex tape with Paris Hilton, though the risk of a dangerous overload of vapidity might prevent such a union.

I believe it was in a novel by John Barth, but there’s a passage where the hero/narrator is having sex with an impressionable young woman. He gets a glimpse of them making the two-backed beast in the mirror and finds the imagery so hilarious he begins laughing uncontrollably. This does not go over well the woman, needless to say, but in his mind, the physical sensation of sex is overcome by the wild tangle of limbs he observes.

Maybe John Edwards should read some John Barth.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:00:08 +0000

I confess that I laughed out loud when I read that John Edwards is the star attraction on a sex tape, now in the possession of the tell-all-book-of-the-week guy.

One could have guessed that a person as self-conciously beautiful as he is, would want to star in such a thing; but the detail that made me laugh is this one (emphasis added):

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/John_Edwards_Scandal/john-edwards-made-sex-tape-abortion-plea-aide/story?id=9680626

Young, who had worked for Edwards since his 1998 Senate win, said he was absolutely sure it was his boss in the tape. “It’s definitely him. You never see her face. But you see — you clearly see his face for a long time. And I can’t speak for the other body parts, but it’s definitely his face,” Young told ABC News.

What a maroon!

By: moe99

moe99 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:56:29 +0000

Used to be that politics was considered “Hollywood for ugly people.” Now it seems that politics is “Hollywood for beautiful but really dumb people.”

By: Jeff Borden

Jeff Borden — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:50:08 +0000

So long as the Republican Party is dumbing itself down, embracing the inner yahoo and distancing itself from education, accomplishment and achievement, guys like Pence are going to be mentioned as potential national candidates.

She Who Must Not be Named has made smiling stupidity fashionable.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:58:39 +0000

Well, Dave, from what I’ve read, Pence’s level of seniority in the House is such that he’d be foolish to leave at this point, and that the polls purporting to show Pence beating Bayh if an election were held today aren’t reliable enough to make it a risk worth taking. Of course, his announcement that he won’t run for Bayh’s Senate seat is now fueling the gossip that he intends to run for president in 2012.

If you believe the prognosticators, the GOP primary in 2012 will again feature a wide field of mostly unelectable candidates talking crazy shit, from which a tepid moderate who talks out of both sides of his ass will emerge as victor for the thankless job of being stomped into the ground by a charismatic incumbent president. If Huckabee’s politics knocked him out of the race early on in 2008 despite the force of his personality, it’s hard to imagine why Pence would even bother, but you never know.

By: Dave K.

Dave K. — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:41:02 +0000

Regarding Mike Pence’s decision not to run for Senate against Evan Bayh. I figured the RNC made that call, thinking, “Why try and defeat Senator Bayh when he is already as helpful to our agenda as a Republican?”.

I sincerely hope that he will prove me wrong.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:48:35 +0000

What the hell! As I was watching some fabulous college games—men’s basketball games, I now am made aware a new Miss America was crowned.
I remember when the pageant was huge, everyone talked about it, Bert Parks sang the song, everybody had the TVs on…it really was big.
Now it is on TLC? I think I get it on cable, but I have never watched anything on it, certainly not the Gosselins.
Well, Miss Virginia won, I didn’t see a second of it, and for all the hours I listen to all that talk on my XM radio, not one radio personality even gave it two seconds of mention beforehand.
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Pilot Joe: you are right, of course, it’s Oriental Gourmet. Who needs extravagant buffets when we have a place like that? I eat there about twice a month.