Eating Happiness: Diet of Empire

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Sunday October 18, 2009 · 4:48 PM PDT

2009/10/18 · 16:48

While I was compiling some recipes at my local library I came upon a magazine trumpeting locally produced food and drink, and the rational reasons as to why to cook food at home. One magazine had a cover of Jamie Oliver on it, the other a close up shot of the fruit of the Willamette Valley.

As I was perusing these magazines something came to mind about food allergies, local foods, industrial foods and all the talk that comes with it: It has been like this in the United States for a very long time. If you want to truly address our food issues- the lack, the chemical flavors, why some foods are nourishing and some not—you need to look at the history of sugar in this country.

You will need to look at the birth of Western Modernity itself.

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Tuesday October 13, 2009 · 9:16 AM PDT

2009/10/13 · 09:16

I was doing some pre-production research when I got yet another email from DCCC, promising that if I made a contribution, I would get to sit at dinner with President Obama. As much as I love President Obama ( I pray for him every night)I am not so much in love in with DCCC.

What jives me is that the Democrats are now in charge. Get that? The Dems are in charge. By golly, we have 60% majority in the Senate, and majority in the House. And yet, you want ME to believe that the Republicans truly pose a credible threat to ANYTHING that the Dems do?

For serious?

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What type of pie should I make today?

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What type of pie should I make today?

Plum

0 votes

Apple

5 votes

Banana rum custard

2 votes

Pear Plum

3 votes

Almond tart

2 votes

I am a fool, or a filmmaker!

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 3:58 PM PDT

2009/09/24 · 15:58

Hello!

So, after working on the Obama campaign as a volunteer, going to France, seeing the election go well, I felt very optimistic, so much so in a very long time. See, five years ago I was a happily failed screenwriter and playwright, watching her twenties be wasted in Portland, Oregon while property value skyrocketed, my work not being discovered and the whole country sinking into war, flash fashion and escapism.

So I said, to heck with my art. I tried to slowly get out of debt, met a sweet guy and finally got a Secure, Adult Job (tm) and thought I would be married by now.

My Great Guy died, my job was downsized and I was stuck. Weirdly enough, thanks to you guys and Obama, I feel really optimistic again, and taken up my art again.

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When will you grow up and become a productive member of society?

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When will you grow up and become a productive member of society?

When I get that Adult Job (tm)

2 votes

When I buy that big new house (tm)

2 votes

When I get that expensive new car, complet with New Car Smell (tm)

1 vote

When I start baking pies. Apples are in season!

8 votes

Andrew Sullivan: The Pattern is Now Clear

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Wednesday September 16, 2009 · 11:54 AM PDT

2009/09/16 · 11:54

Andrew Sullivan is a conservative (small c) writer and blogger with The Atlantic. He had an interesting post: No Republicans for Health Care Reform. In his own succinct way, Drew (I call him that in my head) says what many have been saying for months:

No one in the Congressional Limbaugh-run GOP will back anything this president does. Not only that; they will assault him, race-bait him and insult him in a continuous reel of populist bile.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 12:58 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 12:58

Many fine diaries centered on Health Care Reform talk about a line in the sand, final, no holds barred Maginot line that health care reform, with appropriate reform, a strong public option and increased accesiblility for all is necessary to keep a strong Democrat majority and ensure support for 2010.

What I think you guys may not understand is that this is truly the Republican line in the sand. THIS IS THEIR LAST, TRUE CHANCE at getting back power.

With all of your worrying and anger, I don't think you guys get that if we don't get this passed, and get a strong bill passed, the Republicans will be free to take back power.

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 12:48 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 12:48

Can you remember not having electricity in the West? Can you remember how much better life was without Social Security? How finer life was without the FDA controlling the purity of food? Do you remember the quality of air before the EPA put regulations controlling smoke and emissions in the atmosphere? How much easier it was to travel town to town without our Fedral Highway system? How beter paid you were without minimum wage?

The truth is, the reason why Republicans are so scared, so frightened about Health Care Reform, and the Obama Adminstration in general, is that once the American People have it, within a few years we will not be able to imagine life without it.

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I will...

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I will...

Phone my House representative

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Phone my Senator

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Write my House representative

0 votes

Write my Senator

0 votes

Attend or organize an event

2 votes

Do all of the above

7 votes

Bake a pie- it's still summer!

4 votes

My Letter to Senator Jeff Merkley

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 2:11 PM PDT

2009/08/26 · 14:11

First, Ted Kennedy. He had issues, serious ones, that kept him from being President. He had scandals. And yet, somehow, he rose to be a lion of the Senate. In America there is such a thing as a second act, in which Ted made himself into one of our finest legislators. And yes, in classical style, there is a third act, when Ted, being ravished with illness, gathered all his strength and will and presented the nation with a New Way, a New Possibility, Barack Obama.

Goodbye Ted.

This brings me to the subject- my letter to Jeff Merkley, Senator for Oregon. We all need to contact our legislators and Senators for a strong public options, and use reason to influence them. Here is the body of the letter, with my last name blocked out:

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So, which name is better?

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So, which name is better?

Edith

1 vote

Edie

15 votes

Dee

3 votes

Pie

3 votes

You can't lose what you don't have

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 12:54 PM PDT

2009/08/22 · 12:54

There is a diary stating that Obama is losing support amongst progressives. It sites several polls and Paul Krugman, who wrote a column about Obama's 'lack of support and lack of leadership'.

Yeah, I have heard that before, now, haven't I?

You can't lose what you don't have, and Obama never really had the full support of progressives. So, he's not really losing anything, is he?

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 12:51 PM PDT

2009/08/17 · 12:51

We as a country need healthcare reform. For me, it's personal. I pay out of pocket for my insurance premiums, and many of my neighbors here in Beaverton do the same through COBRA. Here are some of my thought regarding healthcare reform and debate. I also tell a small story about my experiences in the US and in France.

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 10:56 AM PDT

2009/08/16 · 10:56

So I was supposed to diary about Whole Foods and a boycott thereof, but Johnnygunn had a superior diary about the lack of healthy food choices in many of our rural communities.

Instead, I want to briefly address the frustration that is here over the AP report of White House telegraphing that they would consider dropping public option.

They will only consider it if we don't "work with them"

Remember that phrase? "If you work with me..."

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Saturday August 01, 2009 · 2:27 PM PDT

2009/08/01 · 14:27

Yesterday, there were some pretty awful polling results showing that many of the birthers happen to be both Republican and Southerners. Some people on the blog expressed anger and disgust; they were tired of catering to people who are seen as keeping the rest of the country down. Some people went so far as to say, in effect, screw the South.

Well, as a proud Northener ( whose family was not born in the USA, hee!)Iam here to say we simply cannot give up on the South, though the media loves to hype up the birther bs and many Southerners seemed to be utterly deluded and deranged.

Please do take a look at this article, Alabama County Reeling in Fiscal Crisis.

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 10:39 AM PST

2009/01/21 · 10:39

The day before the inauguration, news came that Sam Adams, Mayor Elect of Portland, engaged in a sexual relationship with a young man named Beau Breedlove, who was all of 17. What a headline to wake up to with the Inaugural paper. There are now calls from the Oregonian and the Tribune for Sam Adams to resign.

Here is my letter to Sam Adams:

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Eating Happiness: Diet of Empire

Democrats Need to Take Responsibility

I am a fool, or a filmmaker!

Andrew Sullivan: The Pattern is Now Clear

This is the Republican Line in the Sand

They are afraid because you won't remember

My Letter to Senator Jeff Merkley

You can't lose what you don't have

On Healthcare: It's personal

Come On, People. He said "If you work with me..."

This is why we cannot give up on the South

PDX, OR Politics: Damnit, Sam!