The best way to clean wine glasses

I am a big fan of fine glassware.  My cupboards are filled with Spiegelau and Riedel glasses and stemware.  Needless to say, that despite these being great glasses, they are also delicate like a baby’s bum and need to be handwashed.  I have on more than a few occasions broken a glass simply by washing […]

Downtown San Francisco before the earthquake

via youtube.com This film was originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn, with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, figured out exactly when it was shot. He got his clues from New York trade papers announcing the film showing, the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall and shadows indicating time of year, and […]

Terrorists Now Using Autotune to Attack America

via gawker.com “Revenge of the Symtoms in the Prisons of the Apostates.” Basically, this is “808s and Heartbreak” for the Abu Ghraib-plagued jihadi. At least it sounds a heck of a lot better than Real Housewive’s Countess Louann’s Money Can’t Buy You Class –  or Tardy for the Party – which are both like terrorist […]

Meatless Monday & The Protein Principle

Wow, the numbers are startling. Americans consume an astonishing amount of protein. USDA statistics reveal that U.S. men eat as much as 190% of their recommended daily protein allowance, while women eat as much as 160%, the great majority of which comes from saturated-fat heavy meat and meat products. Protein is essential to life; it […]