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Confederate Redneck

I forgot to mention this gem of a car I saw while in Lancaster last weekend. Click on the image for a large shot over at my photoblog.

Just makes an out of towner who just happens to be Korean in a sea of white feel welcome, ya know? Let me clear up that 99.9999% of the people I met while out there were great. Just a couple rednecks [hey, that's what they've labeled themselves as] crashing the good vibes I guess.

RedAmerica Gone

That was quick. As of 1.17p, Domenech resigned. via Atrios

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Is his book already on the way to the presses? "How a Liberal Rag Hired Me and Fired Me" by Ben Domenech

Hate Graffiti

I saw these two graffiti'd Metro boxes last night. The one on the left at Broad/South and the one on the right at Sansom/15th.

I saw a couple other Metro boxes tagged with this hate graffiti on the walk from Broad/South to Sansom/15th. Was there an article in the Metro to incite this? Anybody know the cause of this? Has Metro notified the police about this possible hate crime?

French Dip

The French Dip. It's a sandwich that always freaked me out for some reason. Basically roast beef with cheese and fried onions with a side of dipping sauce. But I refused to have one, for some unknown reason, until a couple weeks ago. I had another one last night at Nodding Head and holy shit was it good. The bread was creamy/buttery and the provalone very sharp and the semi thickly sliced roast beef soft. The juice was delicious. And of course the fries with their bourbon mayonaise sauce is stupendous. But not to be confused with plain mayo. Fries with plain mayo is just disgusting. And that's that.

A couple pints of the Nodding Head Grog always does the trick for me too. So good.

This French Dip may be my new favorite over at Nodding Head taking the place of the ribs.

Rosemary Olive Oil - Metropolitan Bakery

On my way home from work, I stopped by Metropolitan Bakery to pick up a loaf of bread. From their site:

This fragrant and light boule has a delicate crust and is flavored with fresh rosemary and extra virgin olive oil. We suggest this bread to our customers who are ready to break out of their normal white or whole wheat bread staples and try something new but not too daring.

I cut myself two pieces and scarfed the end piece.

The crust is, as described, very delicate. It has a fine layer of powder, a light brown. It crumbles quite easily while cutting through it. Eating the end piece, I thought that the rosemary was quite pungent, a little too much for my taste. I popped in the two slices into the toaster and readied the butter. Once done, the lightly toasted [I hate it when it browns or worse chars] pieces gave off a lighter aroma. Not as strong as the untoasted piece I already ate.

I smeared on a sliver of butter and ate them up. Really good. It very much is a good way to break out of the normal white or whole wheat staples as the site describes. I was hoping for it to be a little heavier on the olive oil, oh well, it's still quite yummy.

WaPo Hires a Bitoged Plagarist?

So, the Washington Post may be guilty of hiring a bigoted plagarist to their staff. Their new blogger, Ben Domenech, who writes 'Red America' has been getting the under the microscope treatment this week. First off, there is no liberal blogger to 'balance' out the conservative 'Red America' - there is no 'Blue America' to be found I guess? It's not like the WaPo is a liberal rag and that a liberal blogger wasn't necessary as a counterweight.

I got an email from Media Matters today where they call for Domenech to be fired for his offensive remarks in regards to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the Judiciary Branch, Andrew Sullivan needing a woman and killing black babies to reduce crime. Lovely eh? But there's more.

And now I read this post on MyDD by Scott Shields about Domenech plagarizing off of a book by P.J. O'Rourke for an op-ed piece without attribution.

Lovely.

Firefox Maglite

How much of a geek am I? Not only do I want a Mag-lite now, but a keychain Mag-lite. A Firefox Mag-lite at that. Must... Resist... Urge...

The white Firefox logo [unfortunately no fox icon] is laser engraved to add to the geek factor.

$12!

Photo via Mozilla store

Milestones

At some point this week or last week, the total number of comments outnumbered the number of posts. That's cool.

At some point today the site meter clicked by 200,000. That's cool.

This thing has been on line since May 29, 2004, seventeen days after we moved to Philly and a few days after I got my first job. 2300+ posts, 2400+ comments and 200K hits later, today.

Paul Lang Interview by Above Average Jane

Above Average Jane has a great interview with Paul Lang. Paul's running in PA-06 for State Senate in Buck's County. I wrote a little about him here last week.

Paul's got some great thoughtful answers to all of Jane's well thought out questions. It's always nice to see two knowledgeable people have a Q&A like this, you learn a lot more about the interviewee that way.

Have a read.

Guy Bard St. Patrick's Day Dance

The last stop of the day out in Lancaster was the Guy Bard St. Patrick's Day Dance over in Ephrata, just outside of the city of Lancaster. It's a yearly gathering of the local Dems at the Reinholds VFW. Chuck Pennacchio was tired [he'd been up since around 5.30a or so], but he wasn't ready to call it a day just yet.

We walked into the main bar area with a pool table [or two?] and saw some faces from earlier on in the day, Chuck dove right in. To the left was the party room where about thirty or so local Dems came out for food drinks and a little dancing. Also in attendence were three other candidates for public office in PA. Pictured above from left to right are Lois Herr who is running for Congress in PA-16, Lee Heffner who is running for State Rep in PA-37, Chuck, and Ginny Dillio who is running for State Rep in PA-99.

Chuck took to the mic to introduce himself and encourage the rest of the attendees to come up and speak with him [it was all he was allowed to say] and then made his way around the entire ring of tables. The still trucking volunteers were out at the party too after a long and hard day. One last round of passing out literature to all the tables and it was time to relax for the night. After Chuck made his way through all the tables, I asked him for one more photo with the volunteers and he, of course, obliged.

Here's Chuck with the last of the volunteer crew for the day. It was about 10.30p when I snapped this shot and he managed that bright smile on his face only because of the energy the great volunteer crew had throughout the day. It was a pleasure being out there with Chuck and the gang.

And here's a flickr set of some more shots throughout the day, some of which were plucked to be feature with the preceding posts.