Miss any of the action last night? Watch the president’s State of the Union address, the official Republican response from Paul Ryan, and Michele Bachmann’s strange Tea Party response.
Mark Bittman brings his New York Times food column — The Minimalist — to an end after 13 years.
I am grateful to him for introducing me and thousands of other readers to Jim Lahey’s revolutionary bread recipe and to the pleasure of bypassing Williams-Sonoma in favor of the local restaurant supply store.
If you were put off by the in-your-face, competitive reality cooking shows, there was Bittman, who kept it pleasurable, interesting and mostly unpretentious. If I had the choice between dining out at New York’s hottest restaurant or shooting the shit with Bittman over a sizzling sauté pan in a cramped apartment kitchen, I’d take Bittman.
His next gig is taking on the agro-industrial complex from the Times‘ Opinion section. That should be fun, too.
That undetonated bomb discovered in Spokane along a Martin Luther King Day parade route may have been infused with a blood-thinning chemical found in rat poison in an effort to inflict worse injuries, the local sheriff says.
TPM fave Sal Russo, whose illustrious career as a Republican operative includes being a co-founder of the Tea Party Express, had an epic encounter with Chris Matthews on Hardball. The topic: Michele Bachmann. Watch.
This is one of those stories at the critical intersection of science fiction, technology and parody. Political Computer scientists working for the advanced research arm of the Air Force have devised a computer forecasting program they claim can accurately predict civil unrest and domestic insurrections in countries around the world.