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On the Plate Tonight: Thursday, August 28, 2025

Bone-in ribeye, topped with butter-sauteed, sliced shitake mushrooms; steamed asparagus; baked yukon gold potato. Olive oil rather than butter over the veggies. Light salt, generous black pepper. Liberal use of Tabasco Family Reserve. I seasoned the meat with a dry rub of salt, garlic power, onion powder, and cayenne pepper about 3hrs before grilling, and let it get to room temp. Asparagus in the InstantPot. Potato cooked in microwave, and then a few minutes more in the air-fryer covered in olive oil. Rating: 65/100 Delicious but basic. That I wasn't actually cooking until 10pm (on a work day) probably accounts for the mediocrity.

June Tweets

Re: Iran and Honduras
I'm rapidly slipping into GOP partisan confidence mode. Obama's foreign policy is - so far - a total embarrassment.
1:50 PM Jul 1st from web

@banjobanjar
I'm wondering if you still think it's just A-OK that Obama really didn't speak up while protesters were being state-murdered.
1:49 PM Jul 1st from web (in reply to @banjobanjar)

#IranElection
No surprise Ahmadinejad is looking for a way to blame the death of #Neda on Britain and the US.
5:54 PM Jun 30th from web

@MarkMayhew
In all seriousness...you'd think there would be some correlation between casualties and tweets given the worldwide scope, but noooooo.
8:26 PM Jun 28th from web (in reply to @MarkMayhew)

Twitter trends prove the overwhelming influence of US tweets & pop-culture infatuation over political relevance & death tolls. Sad but true.
8:23 PM Jun 28th from web

BET Awards - Watching the celebrity mourning of MJ and the remembrance of his humanitarian side and public catharsis. Shades of Elvis, Lennon.
8:05 PM Jun 28th from web

Re: #IranElection
People that care should reflect on Chavez, Castro, Putin, Tiananmen Sq., Tibet, and every other case of state repression.
7:53 PM Jun 28th from web

Re: #Honduras
I'm beginning to think that if Chavez and Castro are upset about it, maybe we should support it...what side is Obama on again?
7:50 PM Jun 28th from web

RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Billy Mays. What a week.
7:47 PM Jun 28th from web

#IranElection
The Iranians themselves have not seen everything...defeat the censorship with analog means.
7:27 PM Jun 27th from web

If you care, you need to act. Burn DVDs of filmed violence against Iranians, copy and distribute before it disappears.
7:26 PM Jun 27th from web

Russia's Putin and Medvedev approve of Ahmadinejad and the election because they're cut from the same cloth...remember Georgia.
5:31 AM Jun 26th from web

@banjobanjar
Respectfully, Obama and Dems are so determined to distinguish themselves from Bush that they are incoherent on Iran's tragedy.
4:25 PM Jun 25th from web (in reply to @banjobanjar)

#SpamCongress #NoEnergyTax
In the middle of a depression, the Dems can't stop their spending and want to raise taxes on energy? They're nuts.
9:30 AM Jun 25th from web

#NoEnergyTax
Attention: US citizens! Email your Congressman NOW [link] and demand NO NEW ENERGY TAXES, we can't afford it!
9:29 AM Jun 25th from web

The point we must make clear, no matter the president of Iran, the disgusting state violence is proof of despotic injustice.
7:35 PM Jun 24th from web

I am praying that Mousavi and his movement succeed, but I am worried that the people will be sated by any "CHANGE" they achieve.
7:32 PM Jun 24th from web

The fact that Mousavi was selected by the clerics, and was part of Iran's revolutionary past, undermines his democracy credo.
7:25 PM Jun 24th from web

Everyone that is still paying attention should be concerned about the pro-Ahmadinejad political narrative being fashioned...
7:24 PM Jun 24th from web

Very strange counterinsurgency on Twitter...suddenly anti-GOP rhetoric linking Mousavi to Hezbollah and Beirut bombings.
7:04 PM Jun 24th from web

Comments

the best of what exactly?