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		<title>Give Yisrael Katz&#8217;s Job To A Grownup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many and varied explanations for the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict. A story on France 24 this morning reveals, however, that the major barrier to peace is actually stunningly simple: Israel is run by school children.
As the story reveals, The Israeli Transport Ministry has decided to no longer display road signs in languages other than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=594&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Figs, Goat&#8217;s Cheese, and Proscuitto</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked out of work in a foul mood this evening. And it mostly remained foul until I saw these figs. I ate at least two on the way home then drank a beer while I stuffed them with goat&#8217;s cheese and wrapped them in prosciutto. A couple of minutes in the oven and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=586&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quails and Saturday Afternoons.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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I love cooking at home on Saturday afternoons. Particularly in summer when the kitchen is sunny and the herbs on my kitchen windowsill are going nuts. It is even a little too hot today and the shutters are closed to stop the basil from keeling over. Walking to the markets in the morning to find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=577&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Faces Resentment. Apparently.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking about starting a regular round-up of newspaper headlines that state the bleeding obvious. Here are a few for starters:
New York Times: U.S. Faces Resentment in Afghan Region
Salon: Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot
The Age: Kidman still among Hollywood&#8217;s top earners
How to eat a giant snail. Now that is a headline that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=574&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bolton Goes Further Off The Rails</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former US ambassador to the UN, John R. Bolton was absolutely on fire in the Washington Post this week. Given his track record as a crazy person, comments like the one posted below might not be that shocking. What I find unbelievable, however, is that the GOP can&#8217;t wheel anyone more presentable out of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=571&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin is a Narcissist, Possibly God</title>
		<link>http://bsuryab.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/palin-is-a-narcissist-possibly-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd S. Purdum has a long article in the current Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. Full of good bits but the following paragraph, for me, best brings back memories of the time when she was McCain&#8217;s running mate. Regardless of the veracity of Purdum&#8217;s remarks, the sheer outlandishness of it all, the extent to which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=568&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchens on The Latest Nixon Tapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entertaining article by Christopher Hitchens in Slate today on the latest fetid batch of Nixon tapes to be released. The following is the best bit&#8230;
The continuing problem, for those consensus builders who think that the fortunes of the GOP can only be revived by an appeal to the &#8220;center&#8221; and the &#8220;middle ground,&#8221; is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=565&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Too Much Torture Is Barely Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reported this week that the Argentine armed forces may have tortured their own soldiers during the Falklands War. The BBC was reporting on an investigation of eighty cases of abuse of conscripts by their officers, including murder and causing death by starvation.
I guess that when Kissinger and the CIA were helping Videla&#8217;s Junta [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=561&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tomato Chutney</title>
		<link>http://bsuryab.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/tomato-chutney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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I made tomato chutney this afternoon. I used to make it quite regularly but once a huge jar smashed everywhere and picking shards of glass and kilos of chutney out of everything in the fridge put me off it for ages. This time I put it in an old Illy coffee tin, just to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=557&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some combinations of food that seem far greater than the sum of their parts. That is not to say I don&#8217;t like radishes, or bread, or butter, or salt alone. Only that together they are something magic. I like to chill the radishes in iced water then slice them thinly. Best is with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bsuryab.wordpress.com&blog=2925384&post=549&subd=bsuryab&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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