3/17/2010

St Patrick's day and I will soon be cooking corned beef and cabbage and potatoes and soda bread or maybe sweet wheat bread since Steve doesn't like raisins.
Courtney moved upstairs but I still cook for them or at least include them in dinner and they do the washing here. Arvin and Amy live in Berkeley although Arvin comes over here on most weekends.
Sweet wheat bread is sort of biscuit dough with brown sugar and moalsses and it is cooked in a 9x5 pan. I remember how disappointed I was when I learned that soda bread was simply a modified big biscuit.
I am interested to hear that Dennis Kucinich will vote with the Dems on the "healthcare bill". Wonder what was said on the plane trip with the President and Kucinich and his wife. I love Kucinich with his serious consideration of progressive issues and his persistence: he is comfort for all of us nerds or those of us who have felt rejected enough to feel like nerds.
I am angry these days with politics, with what is passing and not passing what is said and not said. I am so disappointed in Obama. I suspect that he is really Republican down deep at least he seems to have little interest in working people,in progressives.
I am so disappointed that no one,no one will talk the progressive line. This seems to be the "year" of little dribbling chickens scurrying around running from the big bad chicken hawk.
I must be getting old-I am just as disappointed with television right now. Wish I could go lay down and watch a Rockford rerun or Hawaii-5 or that Hawaii program that Tom Selleck. I long for some decent escapism but the current cultural weather doesn't offer much.