Just a few remarks on this dish.
Tastes in these things vary widely. Some people like a firm casserole. Not me, I like it very saucy, so how do you do that?
You have to make the marinara or bolognese sauce for the lasagna runnier than you can imagine will be successful. Trust me.
Why? The main reason is that all the other ingredients in the lasagna, especially the noodles, and even though they have been pre cooked, suck up this moisture like a sponge while it is cooking. Cheeses also suck up sauce moisture. Ground beef or pork will do the same.
One exception to this rule, if you are someone like Robin Ellis and substituting squash for wheat noodles: you don't have to make the tomato sauce so thin, since the squash will not so readily absorb it, unless you have totally browned and dehydrated the squash before assembly.
I like a lasagna that seems to be swimming in somewhat thin tomato sauce when you put it into the oven to bake.
What are some obvious blunders one can make with lasagna?
The most obvious is to not layer enough sauce, even for a firm lasagna, assuming you like that firmness. This is the blunder most people make most of the time. My wife is an habitual offender.
An even bigger one is to put a layer of noodles, uncovered, on the very top of the casserole. That is a blunder that cannot be corrected because the burnt and brittle, rock like, cooked top noodle layer cannot be later softened up.
If the second blunder is combined with the first, you might just as well throw it out!
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Monday, October 30, 2017
NYT OP ED CONTRADICTIONS
He talks about age old contradictions....
How would you reconcile Krugman's argument re taxes, and, incidentally, his graph on the US population, with another OP Ed there now: The Economy Can't Grow Without Birth Control?
Since nothing will really make the economy grow, but neither columnist will mouth this truth, think about how their pieces would sound in a head to head debate room.
How would you reconcile Krugman's argument re taxes, and, incidentally, his graph on the US population, with another OP Ed there now: The Economy Can't Grow Without Birth Control?
Since nothing will really make the economy grow, but neither columnist will mouth this truth, think about how their pieces would sound in a head to head debate room.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
PURSUING DIFFICULT PROBLEMS DOGGEDLY
Is that a good description of what is called creativity?
Is it the best, or only, or best of a bad lot, one, or not?
Does it have anything to do with genius, at all, or not?
What, if anything at all, does it have to do with improvisation?
Is it the best, or only, or best of a bad lot, one, or not?
Does it have anything to do with genius, at all, or not?
What, if anything at all, does it have to do with improvisation?
TRUMP AMONG THE REPUBLICANS SEPARATION OF POWERS
The Cyclops, among the Greeks, in his cave.
(The sheep: Democrats!)
(The sheep: Democrats!)
Saturday, October 28, 2017
CANNIBAL POLITICS THE MENU NY STRIP SOMEONE SAW THIS I KNOW WHO HONEY
Sunday, December 11, 2016
CANNIBAL POLITICS
We should address this, at some point.
A fair consideration of Rousseau requires it.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/boehner-resignation-house-speaker-history-213193
"In resigning amid his party’s unrest, Gingrich declared, “I’m not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
As an aside, I once owned a copy of Chimpanzee Politics, a classic, but it was removed from the library......you know who you are. Glad you found it worth purloining. So, you have a birthday coming up, so what?
It is the thought that counts.
Republican cannibal monologue:
" Boehner was good, but a little tough, rather like a NY Strip."
Only a fool eats NY Strips......
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
A fair consideration of Rousseau requires it.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/boehner-resignation-house-speaker-history-213193
"In resigning amid his party’s unrest, Gingrich declared, “I’m not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
As an aside, I once owned a copy of Chimpanzee Politics, a classic, but it was removed from the library......you know who you are. Glad you found it worth purloining. So, you have a birthday coming up, so what?
It is the thought that counts.
Republican cannibal monologue:
" Boehner was good, but a little tough, rather like a NY Strip."
Only a fool eats NY Strips......
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
HITLER AND LINCOLN KENNEDY FALLACY
Hitler won because a main plank of his platform was to eradicate the Jews.
Lincoln won because his entire new Republican Party platform, especially among his Northern white racist base, was to eliminate negroes entirely from American society altogether.
Hitler was the one who kept his promise, not Lincoln.
Lincoln's Kennedy Fallacy: if Booth hadn't killed him, likely some Northern Republican, betrayed fearful white racist, would soon have done so.
Lincoln's Kennedy Fallacy: if Booth hadn't killed him, likely some Northern Republican, betrayed fearful white racist, would soon have done so.
Friday, October 27, 2017
WALING ON LAS VEGAS VICTIMS TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
This is what the internet and social media have emerged to globally promote. Fake news leads to beliefs, or theories, that real events are being faked.
Law enforcement gets aggressively involved.
Lawyers of all stripes get pulled into this legal feeding frenzy.
Politicians weigh in on new penalties for whackos who wale on real victims.
Question: How do whackos now know what is true?
ACLU weighs in on the side of free speech and press, regardless of its truth or consequences.
Social media companies dance all around the issues, but they will not cut back their business. On the contrary.
They are not in the business of policing speech, after all, but rather of promoting, and profitting from, an avalanche of this mierda.
Pretty soon, it starts to look like the Salem witch trials on both sides.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
RE SHOULD CHIMPS HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS HOW MANY JURORS FOR A CHIMP ON CHIMP MURDER TRIAL?
Say the state seeks a premeditated murder conviction, and the chimp death penalty?
Then, 12 jurors and 2 alternates?
Then, 12 jurors and 2 alternates?
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote as if apes are capable of long held grudges and sudden revenge.
Perhaps Jane Goodall would say the same....
THE CIVILIZATIONS QUEER MASK OFF
The US, liberal or conservative, agenda is to queer other civilizations.
That is not how they think about it, but that is really what it is.
Here's a recent post on the now queered out Western globalist menu of the future. That future is now:
That is not how they think about it, but that is really what it is.
Here's a recent post on the now queered out Western globalist menu of the future. That future is now:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
re I LOVE PHILOSOPHY 2013 POST SOMEONE SAW
"Sunday, November 7, 2010
MISE EN SCENE BUS STOP MAVERICK EXECUTIVE MARILYN FREE TRADE HUMAN RIGHTS HOLD UP AND UGLY PHILOSOPHERS
We show the Maverick in his cowboy get up, dressed for the rodeo, with six shooters strapped on, ten gallon hat; Uncle Sam goatee. He has dismounted an older mare. He is wearing a prominent Sheriff's Badge with pointy ends.
He has stopped a stage coach (the large old kind, seen in Westerns; 'Wells Fargo' painted somewhere) in a desert landscape; small circular sign, atop a waist-high pole stand, nearby says BUS STOP; tall cactus etc. We could also show a 'bonobo' Indian Totem Pole 'Pyramid of Experts' somewhere, three bonobos tall, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, just to add the recent philosophers' and experts' dimensions to the scene.
We see the coach relatively close up, from the side, so that we see inside windows on each side of the open stage coach door in the middle.
The coach is full of disparately dressed individuals.
He has already got one of them out of the coach and is standing next to the coach brandishing a six shooter at this unarmed individual, and has him by the scruff of the neck with the other hand. The Maverick has a Clint Eastwood type cigar stub in his mouth as he is talking.
This passenger might be a plump Arab, Mexican, Asian, or Indian-looking 'business man', 19th Century garb. He might also be Gandhi; Nehru jacket etc. He looks real scared. He is weighed down by two large, heavily stuffed, 'carpet bags', one in each hand.
A Marilyn Monroe figure, dressed in tight jeans and a tight white open blouse, as in The Misfits, is standing at the stop, holding a furled umbrella at arm's length pointed down smartly at an angle to her booted foot. Her blouse reads across the bosomy front, in block capitals 'I LOVE PHILOSOPHY'.
The caption above
Enforcing Human Rights and Free Trade 'In the Territories'
The caption below, he is saying
(
Think of 'Dusty''s voice from Tales of The Cowboys, Garrison Keillor.)
:
Mister, Stick 'Em Up! (Or: Stick Em Up Shorty!)
Don't give me that
'no direct investment' mambo jambo.
That jabber's for city slickers.
Gimme All Yur Free Trade, Now,
and Nobody'll Get Hurt: That's Yur Human Rites."
This re post dedicated to Barry Blitt. He doesn't do writing, just think of the images.
CLASSIC POST RE CAP AND TRADE SMART SHOPPING
Saturday, June 15, 2013
RE SENDING US COAL TO CHINA NYT TODAY
Call it just helping good ole cap and trade.
China can now cap and trade within China. (recent article, see blog entry)
Why didn't we think of that,
and cap and trade here,
within even small places, like say within Detroit?
See Klaus Hubacek 's comments, in a prior BBC article, re labor costs.
China can now cap and trade within China. (recent article, see blog entry)
Why didn't we think of that,
and cap and trade here,
within even small places, like say within Detroit?
See Klaus Hubacek 's comments, in a prior BBC article, re labor costs.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
CLASSIC POST HOLLYWOOD MEDIA HISTORY FASHION
Saturday, July 29, 2017
WHOSE JOB IS IT? SCHOOLS ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA GOVERNMENT PRESS HOLLYWOOD?
"Nearly half a century ago, a new fashion swept the historical profession. Rather than focus on the “great men”—or would-be great men—of history, the decision-makers who initiated, fought, won and lost wars, or passed laws, or ran for office, many historians argued for examining the experience of ordinary—or marginalized—men and women, whom they argued had been neglected in the past. It took time for this new idea to spread outside the academy." DK
Where did that new fashion come from? From New Deal liberalism going back to Wilsonianism? From populism all the way back to Jackson? Where?
I may have an answer for you, at the end.
I may have an answer for you, at the end.
Let's hold those questions, and read on:
"In the early 1990s, Ken Burns met with a group of professional historians after the screening of his first great documentary on the Civil War, and they took him to task severely for his traditional approach. His subsequent work has increasingly reflected their criticism. Now, however, this view of history has become mainstream in much of the press and in the media—and it is very much on display in Christopher Nolan’s new film, Dunkirk. One way to illustrate this is to look at what Nolan left out—the political and military context of the events he shows on the screen." DK
Thus a group of history academics dressed Burns down for not being historical enough in their sense, a sense he points out shared both by the press and the entertainment media as well as by academia.
Thus DK properly identifies the press' and entertainment media's view of history with recent historians' view, as the same unenlightening story, depicting unenlightened men unenlighteningly but entertainingly.
It is now, thus, as little the entertainment media's job to educate the public regarding other historical or political contexts as it is the press's, or the academic historians'. They are all, now, in, how you say, cahoots.
There was a time when the historical and political academy had at times pointed the finger mainly at the press.
This was the kind of interchange that had occurred, back then:
(Lorch) Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
Similar charges, no doubt, were levelled, at various times, at Hollywood, for many of the same reasons.
Nowadays, it is the sterile hobby of some in the press, notably Brooks, to point the finger at schools and colleges, not, of course, at themselves, for the failings. They don't talk much about our hamstringing historical constitutional requirement of decentralized education, and of various private and state institutions in cutthroat duplicative and blind competition to foist their their increasingly obsolescent credentials, and historically setting their own picayune and wayward agendas.
There really is almost no one else left to blame, except, of course, the government in general. (But then remember what President Kennedy had said, about a sentiment like that: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!)
That seems to be the direction in which the discussion in the press and entertainment media on the right has gone, and gone for a long time now: governments in general have all failed, fleeced, and deceived all of us, and everyone everywhere! In the United States, as well as in any state or local government, there are some elements of truth in that.
This is one reason why a few right politicians like Trump have finally, in the last ditch, turned on their erstwhile partners, the press, especially the liberal press, since the press generally had long shown itself to be interested really only in its own dominance over politicians left liberal or right, had kept on accruing power, until the technology tables recently turned, and now finally if not dominance, then, interested at least mainly in its own survival, and must still always always kill to eat.
The liberal press, and now tech media outlets, require governments weak enough to continue to serve as their main prey and facilitator. This has been a problem for the West since the 17th Century. Recent web tech has rendered it insoluble.
Sadly, for these right politicians, the rightist press has a similar, if even more bestial, agenda going forward...
As Newt himself had so well put it, back then, a cannibal agenda.
So, in the last analysis, whose job is it in the United States, whose job has it been since the 18th Century, really, to educate the masses?
Here are some questions I was going to answer as well:
Where did that new fashion come from (ie DK's new fashion in history)? From New Deal liberalism going back to Wilsonianism? From populism all the way back to Jackson? Where?
The best answer I can think to give to all these questions, going back to the 18th Century:
The market.
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