Daily Archives: July 16, 2012

11 posts

Retroactive Retirement is the New Plausible Deniability

RMoney’s campaign is making increasingly desperate statements defending, denying, and obfuscating his apparent continued stewardship of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2002 and trying to turn the ship around before it hits an iceberg. On CNN’s State of the Union yesterday, Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told Candy Crowley that the presidential candidate had “retroactively retired” from Bain Capital. Gillespie was asked to clarify the 1999 Press Release from Bain announcing that Romney would be taking a part-time leave of absence to manage the 2002 Winter Olympics. Continue reading

What Would Mom Drink?

MattyMcBoy told me that when he heads to the wine shop he often thinks, What Would Mom Drink (WWMD)? While I can tell you that I never drink the dreaded wine that shall remain nameless, I don’t like to overpay for wine. There are some dynamite wines under $15 a bottle.  One of my favorites is just under $10.

So send me your recipes and I will match you up with some good but inexpensive wines.  Send me your recipes at feedthebadger at gmail dot com this week and I will put up a post later this week with the best food wine pairings. Continue reading

Black Aggie, Black Aggie, Black Aggie

Black AggieThe legend of Black Aggie is one of Baltimore’s most popular legends. Ask anyone what they know of Black Aggie and all will have an experience to share. Black Aggie is a cemetery sculpture located in Pikesville’s Druid Ridge Cemetery, a few miles outside of Baltimore City. It is a life size statue of a  seated woman draped in a shroud. Her head is bowed and she is black in color and in mood.  During daylight, you can see the amazing detail and artistic beauty. However, encountering her at night her presence is ominous and threatening. No grass or plant life will grow around her. Continue reading

How to Get to Guatemala In Five Days Without Flying

Preface: This is an adventure from three years ago. Although I majored in Latin American Studies and wrote my honors thesis about Guatemala, I had never been there. To right that wrong, 13 years later, I visited the Central American country. I coupled it with an overland trip as a part of my quest to cover the entire Western Hemisphere by public land transportation.

I land in San Diego. I neglected to do any research about the nascent drug war in Mexico. When I ask the nice old lady at the airport information desk about buses to the Mexican border, she informs me that 40 to 50 people are shot everyday in Tijuana, the town on the other side of the border from San Diego. I later learn that while I was in Tijuana, the undertakers had run out of coffins. Continue reading

Making Dreams Come True

“We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because…he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
– Buckminster Fuller

What does a day in your dream life look like? How does it begin and end? What mark does it leave on the world?

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