Pickles: Briny Little Hang-Over Cures

January 11, 2009 at 8:33 pm (Food)

When I woke up on Saturday, I did not feel so good.

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This is sort of how I looked.

I drank a bottle of malbec + a few glasses of whatever else I managed to pour into my cup.  It hit me pretty hard I guess because I could barely get out of bed the next morning. My boyfriend and my friend who had crashed on my living room floor were up and ready for breakfast. I was in the fetal position on the floor.  Somehow, I managed to get into the car and we headed for Morty’s Delicatessen on Wisconsin Ave.  My bus goes past this place everyday, but I had never noticed it before. It looks like a hole-in-wall from the outside, but it’s actually a pretty big restaurant.

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The Examiner: A Lil’ Racism For Your Morning Commute

January 8, 2009 at 5:47 pm (Analysis!)

I try to stay away from opinion columns in papers for the most part…usually because I’m such an asshole I disagree with everything anyone has an opinion about. But this caught my eye this morning…

Browner is an environmental radical – and a socialist (seriously)

By Examiner Editorial
- 1/8/09

No, it’s not the President-elect, at least not explicitly. Conservatives are often accused of scaremongering when they claim left-wing environmentalists are actually socialists hiding behind green disguises.  But with Carol Browner, incoming President Barack Obama’s freshly appointed Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change – the so-called White House “Climate Czar” -  there is no question about the socialism.

Alleged Socialist

Carol Browner: Alleged Socialist

Alleged browner

Barak Obama: Alleged browner

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