God I miss Portland. It was the feature city on NPR’s “On the Road” series on August 2. I’m listening to the archived spot right now. It starts in Portland’s Pioneer Square among the dominant liberal population there (more than 2-1 for Kerry). The angle is Oregon’s environmentalists trying to survive under Bush’s mismanagement of [...]

I’m making a pizza for Safa and me right now and after licking the can of Don Pepino Pizza Sauce I use I just had to blog it. It’s the bomb (actually, I’ll talk about The Bomb tomorrow). This stuff is soooooooooooo damn good I really could eat a whole can plain. One worry moving [...]

Podcasts are cool only if the content is cool; most are crap. The only two I listen too with regularity are BBC Radio 4’s program In Our Time, a middlebrow academic forum for a variety of disciplinary fields. The format is one host and two or three professorial guests who discuss Big Ideas and points [...]