Prices for Key Foods Are Rising Sharply
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its June inflation report that egg prices are 19.5 percent higher than they were in June 2006… whole milk was up 13.3 percent; fresh chicken 10 percent; navel oranges 19.8 percent; apples 11.7 percent. Dried beans were up 11.5 percent, and white bread just missed double-digit growth, rising by 9.6 percent.
Meeting…
This evening my son (he of three) asked my wife for “a vanilla bean.”
“Come again?” my wife asked.
(I’m taking a wee bit of license here… she probably just said: “what?”)
“I want a Tall Vanilla Bean mommy.”
Cheryl and I had one of those “meant for you” moments. We each came to the conclusion that a certain mem-may (re: my…
As much as I felt good for Edwin Jackson the other night, I felt bad for Jason Hammel and Jon Switzer last night. Although I didn’t see the game (it wasn’t on TV here), Hammel and Switzer apparently didn’t pitch very well… continuing a trend on the big league team. Both (particularly Switzer this season) have been lights out in the minors. It’s really too bad it…
You may not know it, but I’m the guy with the hair. For most of my life, for better or worse (mostly worse), I’ve been identified by my hair. In high school, my sister once famously pointed me out in a large crowd (at a football game) by saying, “look, he’s the guy with the hair.” Amongst family, it was the anglo-fro.
Yep, that was me.
I say that *was* me because my…
A week ago I wrote about an article I’d read about progress being made in Iraq. There was a New York Times op-ed by a couple folks from the Brookings Institution around that same time, with similar conclusions, which I had not read. I did read the press generated from the White House, holding this NYT op-ed by alleged “war detractors,” as real evidence of progress in Iraq.
The…
A reader on newsvine claiming to be an authentic New Yorker suggested this article in The American Prospect:
“In Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton’s new book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, the investigative panel’s bipartisan leaders confess that their greatest single failing was the pass they gave America’s mayor when he appeared before them in…
I’m generally more of a reader than a participant when it comes to online discussions, so my activities last night come as something of a surprise. I went off on a comment made to an article posted on newsvine (link The article discussed is no longer posted online… author inexplicably deleted it earlier today – 8/12).
Since I put so much effort into my reply, I didn’t want…