February, 2009
February 18th, 2009
Sometimes Rush Limbaugh is funny.
I love Barney Frank. I would be ecstatic if he were my Congressman. Or my friend.
But this is still pretty funny:
February 16th, 2009
Michael Lewis Channels Jonathan Swift
So good I won’t bother trying to summarize it. Read the whole thing here.
Best line: “Barack Obama’s rant about bonuses I can understand: The guy never recovered from passing up Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to become a community organizer.”
February 16th, 2009
Not the Carne Seca I Remembered
Five years ago this March, I headed to Spring Training in Arizona with a few friends. That was the only one of my 3 trips to the dessert that I went to Tucson. Far more teams are based in the Phoenix area, including the Cubs, which is why I usually stay there. But the scenery and the food are vastly superior in Tucson. One of the well-known culinary highlights in Tucson is the El Charro Cafe, which has been serving up delicious Mexican food since 1922, a mere 10 years after Arizona entered the Union.
El Charro is most famous for their air-dried meat, known as carne seca, that they cook up with a bunch of herbs and spices to make a very good meal (not quite up to my expectations after reading the reviews, but still very good). On Saturday, I went to a Mexican grocery store on Ashland just north of North Avenue to get some chorizo and jalapenos for the dragon turds when I saw, on top of the meat counter, a large container of beef jerky. I couldn’t help but buy a little and when I got home and saw that the deli label identified it as carne seca, I was wildly excited. Then I ate it. I never knew that Mexicans could sell prepared meat totally devoid of flavor. Maybe I’m supposed to add the seasonings. Instead, I gave most of it to Fred for a Valentine’s Day treat.
