Another week and another crop of assholes. This week our harvest is plentiful. Already this week Baldwin told you about bankers being bad, BizMonkey shared some dickish responses to the health care decision by the Supreme Court, and Lucky explained Cookiegate. However, there are still plenty more reprehensible behavior this week that deserve special mention in our hall of shame. Continue reading
In light of our North American celebration today (Happy Canada Day!), I wanted to bring a little attention to our friends south of the border and the elections happening today. It is widely expected that Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will win against the number two candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Progressive Movement Coalition and who narrowly lost to Felipe Calderón in a hotly contested election in 2006. Two other candidates, seen trailing, are Josefina Vazquez Mota (National Action Party) and the long shot Gabriel Quadri (New Alliance Party). Continue reading
Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world. Continue reading
Tell us where in our glorious country you’ve been. Was it great? Sorry, silly me, of course it was great. How great? And where exactly do you go that was great?
Lots of Americans have been on family trips to the Maritime provinces. A drive around the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island is a festival of small towns and lobster-binges.
Quebec City (the skiing! winter carnival!), Montreal (omg the shopping), Toronto (a shoe museum right across the street from the hallowed halls of the Royal Ontario Museum!) and Vancouver (Stanley Park, wow) are wonderful cities to vacation in, and the countryside in between is beautiful. So green! (Mostly.) Continue reading
In 2004, my father, a former FDIC banker and “troubleshooter” within the private retail banking industry, declared bankruptcy. A man who spent the better part of his adult life fixing banks after the Texas Mortgage Crisis of the 80’s found his own finances so devastated that he gave his house to the state to pay his creditors and started from scratch at 62 years old.
A few weeks ago I shared with you a recipe for corvina. In keeping with the theme, this week I decided to share a recipe for ceviche, which is a dish that features fish that has been cooked not by heat, but by the acidity of limes. My mom spent this past week with us, and we made this together last Monday. We bought the fish and prepared the ceviche on the same day, since you want the fish to stay as fresh as possible. Be careful when cutting up the scotch bonnet peppers, as the heat from the pepper will stay on your fingers and can cause a lot of pain if you touch your eyes. Continue reading
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