An abandoned structure, meant to be part of an overpass, now serves as a concrete island in the Yamuna River in Delhi, India. Photograph by Kevin Frayer/AP
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Quote of the Day
“Mainstream Catholics want leaders who can address the moral challenges of our day like income inequality, underwater mortgages and poverty, not leaders who perpetuate a never-ending culture war that divides our community.”
— James Salt, Catholics United Executive Director, explaining why Catholic voters are not casting ballots in favor of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is also Catholic.
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Picture of the Day
Voters fill out their ballots Tuesday at a polling station set up in Froehlich’s Classic Corner restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio.
Who said voting isn’t an art form?!
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Quote of the Day
“He’s got to go run in a Michigan again, but in a state where his dad wasn’t governor.”
– Republican consultant Alex Castellanos on Mitt Romney’s primary win in his boyhood state
And, Romney still can’t clinch the deal! If you kept up with yesterday’s “Super Tuesday” Republican primary fiasco, then you might be amused to know the GOP clown show will continue. I prefer Cirque du Soleil, but that’s just the artist in me. Besides, I like to get my money’s worth on things!
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Will Digital Editions Replace the Printed Cookbook?
Here’s an interesting aspect to the growing debate about traditional books vs. e-books. Will the growing trend in digital literature extend to cookbooks? I can see it now: a happy homemaker preparing dinner from a new recipe plastered atop the stove – via magnets affixed to the back of a Kindle. Hey, it could happen! Purists may never relinquish the love of touching paper (I count myself in this group), but even I know nothing can stop some technological advances. The traditional book vs. e-books argument reminds me of snail mail vs. email; thirty years back, no one would have thought we could send birthday greeting cards in a matter of seconds. And, just a decade ago not many people imagined reading a book on a mini-TV screen. But, cookbooks? For some reason, they seem to be the last bastion of the digital divide; the final holdout. Yet, in 2011, Jamie Oliver’s recipe apps were among the top downloads – both free and paid versions. Even the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has created a digital edition of its bible: The Professional Chef. Since e-books are still a new phenomenon, it’ll be fascinating to see if the printed cookbook will suffer the same fate as the electric typewriter. You’ll just have to wipe grease stains off the Kindle before storing it next to the old fashioned nutmeg!
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Quote of the Day
“An important statistic that I read once was that there’s a survey done of 12 year-olds that found at age 12, 25 percent of the students were unsure of their sexual orientation. But we know from surveys of the adult population that only maybe 2 to 3 percent of the adult population will actually identify as homosexual or bisexual. So you have this population of young people that left to themselves, 9 out of 10 would end up being perfectly heterosexual, but now with the politically correct environment in the schools, those kids are being told by their teachers and guidance counselors, ‘Well you are probably gay, you were born that way, you just have to accept it and embrace it.’”
– Peter Sprigg, of the Family Research Council who wants public schools to distribute “ex-gay” information.
In other words, it’s a vast left-wing conspiracy! Grab your guns and bibles, folks! Those damn queers are on the rampage again!
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Cartoon of the Day
Yes, now grow up for God’s sakes! You’re embarrassing your grandchildren!
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