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One cannot always write about the evil that is religion or what amazing new low conservative politicians have brought public discourse to. So this Monday I share with my loyal readers my most favourite foods in the whole wide world.
Of course, the crown jewel and most exalted must be the princely Perogy. I’m game on almost any filling but would have to put classic potato, cheese and bacon and sauerkraut as my top 3 choices. With a liberal application of sour cream (or cottage cheese), bacon bits and onion I quickly reach a heavenly food nirvana in which all becomes good with the world and I crave only a nap to digest all the carbohydrates I just consumed.
Another indulgence that I less often satisfy is the wonderful taste universe of Sushi, the melting of delicately cut tuna on my tongue followed by the blistering heat of the wasabi leaves everything to be desired as only more can make my sushi-lust abate.
What better to combat a cold winter’s day than a steaming bowl of Pho? Combining just the right amount of lime, hot peppers, sprouts and Hoisen sauce to create a symphony of savoury sweet, meaty soupful bliss makes for a warm happy ending and brief reprise from the overall misery of winter.
Please share your favourites in the comments section as I am always willing to expand my list of favourite foods. :)
This is my desktop at work, I find calm within the swirls and seemingly random eddies.
(edit: I found a image with better resolution and it looks marginally better when put as a wallpaper. Enjoy! – Arb)
Between a ceiling paint job that has more lives than your average cat (and just won’t die), a weekend choir workshop and the change over to Daylight Savings Time my blogging time has all but disappeared on me. I will try and catch up during the week if I have any spare time.
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A picture post to start off the blogging weekend madness. I usually get my posts all queued up during the weekends so I can focus on the rest of my life during the week. Right now, I have got nothing in my brain yet, so we start off with cute.
In the ‘gotcha’ world of the internet, specifically the blogosphere, it seem that it is almost a never ending contest of who say their points the loudest. Proper argumentation and facts be damned. Debate is good, of course, but to what end when people involved are unwilling to change their opinions even when clearly they are wrong.
Debate then, rather than being a spirited exchange of ideas, discussion merely becomes yet another seemingly pointless timesink. The effort put into stating your case with the correct amount of profunidity necessary to prove your point becomes almost an odious task, because nothing really changes between you and the person you are debating. It can be very discouraging at times.
It is important to focus on the people who do not comment, so that they might see both sides of an argument and gather more information so they might be able to make an informed decision on the issue at hand. At least, this is what I tell myself.
I’m not a big fan of Capitalism, nor its ideological bretheren libertarianism and objectivism. And to my critics, yes I know…markets are wonderful they give us lots of choice blah blah, free market blah blah blah.
It would be all good if we could get away from the tremendous income inequalities that are endemic to capitalism. Exploitation of the working class, the environment and even the state itself are all corollaries of the capitalism we know today.
Spare me the tales of the working business man fettered by government regulations and taxes. Without the superstructure the state provides, you would not even have a business. When discussing economic systems it never fails that I must cut through the glowing capitalist mythology to get even remotely close to what is really going on in the world.
I assume that it is why it is so difficult to debate Libertarians and Objectivists because their respective points of view dovetail so succinctly with capitalist ethos. Greed is good, and if I am doing well then by that virtue others will benefit when I accumulate more wealth.
Whoops, more free market mythology. It grows on ya, like ringworm.
What galls me more is the impertinence of the business class. Privatizing the profits and letting the public assume the risk seems to be the grand strategy and sadly we let them get away with it. Consistently.
I am a little on the cynical side, the way humanity moves it seems some days we are bent on self destruction. Then other days you see stuff like this and ya think, as you clear the mist from your eyes, it’s not all bad.
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