Inspiration found than lost

I found inspiration for dinner today, Quiche! Nothing beats a good quiche. I lost inspiration for writing, not for writing itself, but rather what to write about for my daily posting. I have nothing earth shattering to share, no deep thoughts for the day, nothing essential aside from my quiche. I would argue that even my quiche is non-inspirational, nothing original in my quiche; just ham and Swiss cheese and not even a special ham; just a domestic American ham that comes in rectangular form. It makes me sad that here in the United States, we accept rectangular ham as normal. A pig’s leg, haunch or buttock isn’t a rectangular shape so why would the ham be rectangular? That being said, the quiches came out very nicely. I made two; one for my son to take home and one for my daughter and myself. What I find to be great about quiche is that it is equally good hot, warm or cold. When you serve it with a salad it makes a nice light dinner.

When I said that I had nothing to say, it was a fleeting sensation that left when I started to write about my lack of inspiration. I was exaggerating, silly me. It didn’t take too many sentences before I was describing something and that was my dissatisfaction with our ham in the good old U.S. of A. This reminds me of something Erica Johnson, a Daily Post blogger, wrote about; how no one complains about talking blocks whereas many writers complain of writer’s block. I think that the issue has something to do with the feeling that you have nothing to say, that somehow when you write it down, it means more than when you simply say it out loud. I’ll have to keep this in the forefront of my mind when I sit down to write, start typing and something will develop into a line of thought, it might not be Pulitzer prize-winning material but that isn’t the goal here. The goal is writing, pure and simple and enjoyment.

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A Long-Time Hobby

Cheesecake

If you consider baking a hobby, than baking is what I’ve been doing the longest. I started fooling around with making jello chocolate pudding and cool-whip desserts when I was about twelve and then I graduated to pound cakes and cheesecake. It has been thirty odd years of baking for me. Gardening would be the second longest at about twelve years, I still consider myself to be a novice but I love it as much as baking.

Mike Daisey Admits To ‘Shortcuts’ With ‘Apple Factory’ Story Pulled From This American Life

As journalists, shouldn’t they have taken up where Mike Daisey had gone and done their own independent research and follow up reporting? He is the author of a one-man show designed for the stage, I would have hoped that the New York Times would have dedicated more resources to fully investigate his bona-fides before writing the article and the same goes for the radio program. It seems to me that the two news outlets are shifting the blame onto Mike Daisey, when they should be holding themselves accountable for lazy reporting. Double checking facts and sources should be a basic requirement in good investigative reporting, or so I thought.
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Arizona Birther Bill, Previously Vetoed By Jan Brewer, Returns Without Circumcision Requirement

I remember vaguely of discussion in political circles about amending the constitution to allow for any United States citizen to run for presidential office regardless of the place of their birth, this was when respect and admiration for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was at its highest. I also remember rumblings of that same nature with regards to Arnold Scharwsenaeger before he was governor of California. I believe that the reason the framers of the constitution made the point of being born within the U.S so specific, was to ensure that the President wouldn’t be beholden to other foreign interests in this country’s infancy as a republic. Obviously by Henry Kissinger’s time those concerns were gone, to have them be resurrected by the republican party because our President happens to be half white, seems to be bigoted in my opinion.
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“God’s Will”?: Sarah Palin’s Secret Plot to Capture the White House in 2012

Mr. Dunne is correct that even if Sarah Palin is intellectually lazy that doesn’t mean that she isn’t shrewd and calculating. She has that talent for honing in on the basic fears that the GOP has during these times when they are feeling economically vulnerable, financially illiterate and I think that this illiteracy applies to most of us because the financial instruments that Wall Street and the Big Banks draw up are purposefully complex to make anyone of us feel illiterate, and feeling marginalized. She knows how to call them all to her side by saying that it isn’t their fault and that everyone else is to blame for how their contract with America has changed to their detriment. I wonder if Michael Steele had her in mind when he designed the convention season to create the outcome of a brokered convention. I don’t think so, he has been a frequent guest on Bill Maher’s show and he definitely isn’t that conservative. Sarah Palin’s presence in our political landscape is a reminder that the United States is a large and diverse country with a small but extremely vocal group of people that want to stay in the past, the past where everyone was more or less alike, everyone knew their place and they were at the top of the food chain. She, like all the other GOP candidates aren’t looking to advance anyone into the 21st century, to me, it seems that they want us stuck in a rut.
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