1. I saw this movie and then bought this tea and it has changed me for ever, as I did not know I had never had really good tea before. I have realized that coffee is really good and really powerful if you only drink it at 4 PM, my least favorite hour of the day.
2. Puebla is not my favorite city in Mexico, but it has the best food. If you are going to serve Frida Kahlo meals as I aspire to do, you must have the correct plates. I try to buy Talavera pottery in Puebla itself or at least at the D.F. FONART, but there is also the Talavera Shop. Talavera earthenware must meet certain technical standards to be authentic, although there are great differences in style and pattern from workshop to workshop. This store has real Talavera in a good version, and charges less than do many impostors.
3. As I keep saying, I can cook faster than you can microwave or call out. Try some more of that redfish, personally caught by me: sautée sliced scallions, garlic, and mushrooms in olive oil. When they are soft, which will not take long, put redfish fillets on top. Pour in a large glass of good white wine, and cover. Poach like this for a very few minutes. You do not want to overcook this as the fish will remain edible but lose its delicacy. While the fish poaches or perhaps ahead of time, make a simple salad.
4. I am writing faster, too. Scholarly pieces are now easier than blogging, what happened – or is it just that I am not at the beginning stages of any at this moment? Is it because of after years of saying “give it a chance,” I have finally gone back to giving myself one? Is it because I have a certain sense of urgency, having planned at least tentatively on the June 2008 LSAT?
5. I have discovered an excellent blog, Amorphous Funk. Observe it on the Clinton campaign. I quote:
Try to demonstrate that Clinton legislation favored the poor, resisted corporate sponsored corruption, and provided labor protections in its trade agreements. Try to demonstrate that “welfare reform,” “three strikes” legislation, favoring privatization (including that of the military to Blackwater) were really populist moves. Try to demonstrate that intelligence leading to the war was so convincing that not to empty the U.S. Treasury into the pocket of Halliburton would have been perilous. And back off the charge that a comparison of records (which you probably already intend to back off) would show a substantive difference. It would. It would show that the current catch-phrases about Obama’s substanceless rhetoric are propaganda.
Propaganda in my view, of course, is the Clintons’ rhetoric about being champions of the poor. But what Amorphous Funk has to say about the repugnant Bobby Jindal and his utterly wicked employee Angèle Davis is less well known and arguably more important.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
This point about the Clintons’ claims to be supporting the working class and the poor and their actual record during Bill’s administration is really central for me. I have never gotten why she allegedly awakens such significant sympathies among blue collar workers. One of the things that bothers me about her is how she and her husband built their records at the expense of people who had no chance of defending themselves. Because as we all know, welfare recipients don’t vote (and if they try, are often stymied by registration requirements if their housing situation does not meet the high standards of registration committees).
I actually do not have the faintest idea why they are supposed to be poor-friendly. I originally said more in this comment but then I made that into a whole new post.