I guess it is time to crank things back up after Thanksgiving. I had the dessert cart this year and kept things kid friendly making Lemon squares, Blonde brownies along with the traditional pumpkin pie. Since Pizza buns were a hit with the kid set last year we tried Stuffed pizza this year and it is a keeper. While everyone works off all the good eats here are several links of interest:
Wanna work people up and get them good and mad? Kill and mutilate a few dolphins as the Sun Herald editorial board explains. The panel of marine experts in the Slabbed nation seem to think a local shrimper has gone postal.
Next up is another editorial from the Sun Herald that is extraordinary in respects on the taxpayer funded land graft at the DMR where they joined Slabbed in calling for a federal investigation. Judging from the murmurs coming from the peanut gallery we’re both a bit late to that party and that is not a bad thing per se. The DMR withholding public documents from reporter Karen Nelson is beyond disgraceful but about par for the course. That said where there is a will there is a way as the information is out there.
Next up we go way back to early November for the fake cover of Paula Broadwell’s book on former CIA director Petraeus as reported by ABC affiliate in Denver. The Youtube embed below is thus worth the watch.
Next up is Hurricane Sandy as people are still yammering about it in the news and social media. Slabbed is feeling the love too as google is leading people who are now being shafted by their insurance companies to our exhaustive Katrina wind water legal dispute archives. That topic after all, is where the Slabbed’s moniker originates so the extra traffic fits. But alas these days hazard mitigation is on my mind and the post Sandy media landscape is having that discussion as well so along those lines I chuckled when a reader emailed this New York Times story on Sandy featuring Dauphin Island Alabama, the undisputed repetitive loss champion of the US. The piece featured all the usual suspects and special interests that Slabbed has skewered from time to time along with former skeweree turned friend to the Slabbed Nation Western Carolina U professor Rob Young. This snippet from the story sums things up on the topic: Continue reading “Post holiday news miscellany”