We got about three inches of snow--I think. Luckily, it didn't start until after our walk and I stayed snug in the house the rest of the day. Doesn't look as if it stuck to the sidewalk or street, but I'll have to check.
I made rice pudding, as Pat likes it so much. Never made it before, but got the recipe off a blog called "Joy the baker" and had all the ingredients. It takes a lot of stirring over heat, but turned out pretty good, although a lot firmer than what you buy. Think I'll look for another recipe that seems "looser." Pat liked it, though, so it was a success. While I was cooking and stirring, had a long talk with sister Betty. All seems well on the left coast.
Wider: Quoted by Norman Solomon in his "Why Are We Still At War" on Anti-War.Com:
"Early on, the writer Joan Didion saw the blotting of the horizon and said so: 'We had seen, most importantly, the insistent use of Sept. 11 to justify the reconception of America's correct role in the world as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war.'
"There, in one sentence, an essayist and novelist had captured the essence of a historical moment that vast numbers of journalists had refused to recognize – or, at least, had refused to publicly acknowledge. Didion put to shame the array of self-important and widely lauded journalists at the likes of the New York Times, the Washington Post, PBS, and National Public Radio."
Yes--yes! That covers it, that's it, and we ignore that simple truth at our peril. But of course, "our peril" is inconsequential as long as we can foist peril onto others, always and forever.
And the following is just too delicious not to quote, considering what you might call the secular worship of our dear leader . From the blog "The Last Ditch":
"Attaching oneself to the cause of some pol — who, let's face it, is just a character on TV for 99 percent of voters — is a species of what I like to call "statish thinking." Try using a similar kind of cognition when doing business at Friendly Sam's Pre-owned Auto Paradise. You'll wind up helping Friendly Sam — with $10,000 of your money straining his pocket — push your newly purchased junker off the lot." [Nicholas Strakon]
Can't help but chuckle at that one.