It’s not just peach pie, it’s Impeachment Pie, the dessert that’s become famous at Chocolate, a restaurant in downtown Santa Cruz.
“People come here just for that,” says Zeya Schindler, a veteran waiter at the restaurant. “I’m not always sure if it’s because the pie is very good, or because they want to impeach Mr. Bush.”
A […]
This is what it sounds like when people are excited by new poetry—by Alli Warren’s Hounds, a chapbook released this spring without a publisher’s imprint:
Contact Alli Warren immediately and force her to sell you a copy. It is worth a thousand dollars. [K. Silem Mohammad]
UPDATE July 6, 2005—Make that more than $1000, as a copy […]
From The Onion:
Vatican Tightens Nocturnal Emissions Standards
Recall that Montaigne—who was always big on confession—taught us that it’s OK to talk about wet dreams. But preferably in Latin.
It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur…except that we’re entering a dark age for innovation. (The latter is from someone at the Pentagon, and everyone else discredits it. So it’s still a great time to be an entrepreneur!)
“Trivia & Bizarre items” from the online World Carrot Museum:
Carrots produce more distilled spirit than potatoes.
Carrots might unlock the secrets of the universe.
If your first name is Carrot it has made you happiest when you are expressing in some creative, artistic way, and not conforming to strict routine.
As the battle over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court approaches, a solution to the nation’s battle over church and state seems about as likely as a Sonny and Cher reunion. Noah Feldman, noting that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the swing vote in several Court decisions protecting what he terms “legal secularism,” suggests an […]
How many readers of Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, by Michael H. Shuman, would buy the book from Wal-Mart?
Here’s a blurb from the publisher, spotted on Wal-Mart’s web site:
Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over […]
Wal-Mart comes to China, bringing cheap melons and electric fans shaped like sad penguins. (Via Future Now)
Wal-Mart has no stores in South Africa, where big-box discounters are not yet pervasive. (Woolworth-style variety stores are found in most malls. In fact, the Woolworth name lives on in South Africa, but here it’s an upscale department store.) […]