I Was Wrong - on something important

I have been trying for several years to make a tasty moussaka using a ground chicken/beef blend and without the bechamel on top and without all the spices that recipes require. I use the chicken/beef blend because with my gout I am not supposed to eat a lot of beef. I don't do the bechamel on top because a good bechamel requires butter and milk. I also dont use a lot of tomato sauce because Ann has problems with that. One of the main fundamental problems is that ground beef these days doesn't come with much fat (and ground chicken with almost no fat) and that means the flavoring is more difficult. For this past weekend, I used a lot of MSG while cooking the beef and this seemed to do the trick of having a good flavor. I had read that MSG was on the 'bad' list years ago but has been rethought and is now not on the bad list (not that it made the good list).

A long chain of tweets in response to some from Alexandria Brown, an instagram influencer, on this. Points include: Didn't think drug abuse would get so bad. Thought treatment would work better. Didn't realize drug abuse would destroy people like it does. https://twitter.com/alexthechick/status/1691422798411894785

Back shortly after the turn of the millenium I attended several transportation conferences and made a point of asking speakers if 'There are too many ports". I also, made some comments on various papers, presentations, etc. to that effect. I specifically used the example of Florida, which had 10 seaports and the Mississippi river, which had a number of River ports. It seems I was wrong on the Florida issue, although maybe right on the Mississippi river issue. The reason I was wrong about Florida is that I did not foresee that extent to which the 10 ports could specialize so each would contribute enough economic benefit to justify the landside investment that Florida and the USA would have to make. Also, I did not foresee the extent to which the capacity of the west coast ports, specifically LA and Long Beach would be constrained by various policies that limited their operational efficiency. This capacity problem on the west coast has made the east coast ports more impor

Naomi Wolf is a writer and generally accepted to be a public intellectual. She is a lifelong Democrat and advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and has written extensively for The Nation and The New Republic. She wrote an apology and published it on her substack account. She apologizes for believing in the Steele Dosier, the 'Hunter Biden Laptop was a Russian Plant' and the 'Officer Sicknick was killed by Jan 6 Rioters', and a few other things. Her article at substack is: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry. Below is this article:................................................................................................................ Dear Conservatives, I Apologize My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda Dr Naomi Wolf 22 hr ago There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere. It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation w

Summary: Professor Vincent Lloyda, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova, experienced horror while teaching a seminar for advanced high school students. The class was influenced, then taken over by two college assistants. The class at the beginning was happy and engaged intellectually, then unhappy and cowed by endless accusations of micro aggression, race wronging, etc. ................................................................................................................................ His words: On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly around 3 percent—to spend six weeks together taking a college-level course, all expenses paid. The group reminded me of the heroes of the Mysterious Benedict Society books I was reading to my daughter: Each teenager,

Jamie Reed, self identifying Progressive, got a job in 2018 with the Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children's Hospital. She was a true believer in facilitating gender transitioning of children in their early teens. After several years of seeing the results of this she is working with a Republican State Attorney General to stop the gender transitioning of children. Below is her report There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. By Jamie Reed February 9, 2023 I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor. For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with te