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27 May 2011

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A defining feature of the blog era is that it permits anyone, just anyone, to publish criticism on a given subject, regardless of his or her expertise in, or even familiarity with, said subject. I myself benefit from this phenomenon as much as the next guy: I'll pronounce opinions on wine regions I've never visited, for instance, or I'll rely solely on web research for the history of a particular wine bar. These are habits that are rightly discouraged in conventional journalism.

One arguable advantage of this new blog order is the addition of fresh voices, fresh perspectives into niche fields that were historically the province of established professionals. Published criticism of any sort has gotten a great deal less Mandarin. Reader and writer, once divided by the greater access and broader perspective of the latter, have grown closer than ever.

The downside is that many of these fresh outsider voices are just totally uninformed. And perceptibly outside the industries they cover. I'm not saying it's impossible to know a subject well without ever having worked with it professionally. It is less likely, though.* One is liable to get snowed. For instance, I suspect it was mostly just critical naivete, combined with a certain hunger for newness typical of the hyperactive blog media environment, that yielded a flush of great press earlier this year for 9ème modern bistro Le Pantruche.

It's a restaurant that might succeed in charming you if, by gosh, you just like fancy food, and to hell with details, such as wine, knowledgeable service, inspired restaurateurism, etc.

Cailles always look like little casualties. This one went down on a turf of mild lentils.

Actually, I sort of envy people who fit the above description. People who don't take things too seriously. I have the unfortunate foible of reading a lot into details - such that it was plain to me, even as I awaited our table at the bar with my sister, her boyfriend, and the Native Companion, that I was not in an especially savvy establishment. Behind the bar was a capsule-fed espresso machine. The brief wine list was heavy on consumer-friendly Bordeaux and Rhône selections, light on natural wine names.

At this point the objection could reasonably be raised: is it necessary for a restaurant to have an engaging wine list, in order for it to be a great restaurant? Not necessarily. There are a hundred pokey honest bistros across Paris where I'd plunk for outdated rosé or light beer for the sake of the food and the vibe. It's a question of presentation, however. Le Pantruche evinces aspiration, from the relatively crisp service to the careful plating to the pricing of the menu, which is just a precise notch above what would constitute a noteworthy deal.

A rule of thumb could be: if you have put eel in your celery soup, your restaurant needs to demonstrate some wine sophistication. Otherwise it's like the bar service at intermission during a ballet: always a little disappointing, not quite up to the standards of the show, or even the audience.

Other entrées weren't as successful, in particular a plate of weakly sauced white asparagus that had been cut in two and laid crosswise, Jenga-style, in an insensible violation of their natural form.

On the whole, the cuisine at Le Pantruche was perfectly satisfying, but somehow stunted, as if the chef were trying to economize on menu costs by using humble ingredients like celery, lentils, and eggs. (I have no idea of knowing whether this was actually the case. I understand that Le Pantruche's chef / co-owner Franck Baranger previously worked with chef Christian Constant at Violin d'Ingres, and later at Les Cocottes, two reputable places I've never visited.) Crucially, the menu just wasn't persuasive enough to make me overlook the dull wine list. Both were a bit conservative and suffered from a distinct lack of couilles.

An acceptable Black Angus onglet.

Nevertheless, it was my sister and her boyfriend's last night in Paris that evening, so the latter and I figured we might as well splash out for something interesting. We tried to order a 2008 Marsannay "Clos du Roy" be Domaine Jean Fournier, a historied 16ha Marsannay / Gevrey-Chambertin estate that from what I understand has seen more or less non-interventionist viticulture since the arrival of present winemaker Laurent Fournier in 2003. But the server arrived in due course with a bottle of same producer's basic Bourgogne Pinot Noir from 2009, already open.

He was pouring it when I pointed this out to him - that he'd brought the wrong bottle. No no, he said, we'd ordered the Marsannay. At which point I was obliged to explain that what we'd ordered was a cru AOC Marsannay from a domaine based in the town of Marsannay-la-Côte, which latter fact explained why the domaine's basic Bourgogne Pinot Noir also contained the word 'Marsannay' on the bottle, very small on the bottom. Basic things like this are why one hires or ought to hire a wine director, generally. So your servers don't accidentally bring the guests cheaper bottles of wine.

We said what the hell, we'd roll with it. After a week of ambitious dining we were all feeling a little light-headed and light-of-pocket, anyway. The "Clos du Roy" will remain a mystery, as in the end we only went through one bottle between four of us*, but the 2009 Bourgogne Pinot Noir was crisp, curranty, and satisfying, if nothing profound. For a run-of-the-mill weeknight tipple, it was fine. But - and here's the crux of the issue - I'm just not likely to choose a place as obsequious as Le Pantruche for a random weeknight dinner.

Dessert was an event, anyway. In one of those circumstantial but still mildly embarassing menfolk / womenfolk divides, the NC and my sister each chose the soufflé, while J4 and I took cheese plates, which we asked to have brought before the desserts, so the four of us could share everything. The soufflés duly arrived on top of the cheese plates - but I get how it is with soufflés, they possess an urgency unmatched among desserts. If the house were burning down but the soufflé needed to be eaten before it fell, I would go down with the house.

And if it were these soufflés on this particular night at Le Pantruche, it would have been worth it. Sensuous never-ending pillowfluff loveliness - what the headrests in heaven are made of. (They were good enough to forgive the use of Grand Marnier, a spirit I'm unable to dissociate from crêpe stands and bad cooking shows.)

To put things in perspective: had each course been this memorable, the meal would have justified what has been written about the restaurant thus far - to which I'll now add this post: a honking, unapologetic sneeze amid the chorus of praise.

* This is the reason I'll read the blog of ex-Chez Panisse pastry chef David Lebovitz, and not, say, this one that's turned up recently called Paris Patisseries, which appears to be just a sickening laser-focused marketing effort.

** For me this is an astonishingly small amount. I think it speaks to a general lack of enthusiasm that pervades a meal at a place like this, where everything is just - okay.

Le Pantruche
3, rue Victor-Massé
75009 PARIS
Metro: Pigalle
Tel: 01 48 78 55 60

Related Links:

A very recent review of Le Pantruche @ TableADécouvert
An adulatory interview with Le Pantruche chef / owner Franck Baranger @ BonjourParis
A pretty spot-on unimpressed review of Le Pantruche @ JohnTalbott
A positive blurb about Le Pantruche @ BarbraAustin
A full review of Le Pantruche by Barbra Austin @ GirlsGuideToParis
A generally positive review of Le Pantruche @ HungryForParis
Pierrick Jégu on Le Pantruche @ L'ExpressStyles
Alexander Lobrano on Le Pantruche @ NYTimesTMagazine

A profile of Domaine Jean Fournier @ PolanerSelections

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Why take a picture of a dandelion?  Is it not just a weed?  I heard that weeds are medicines as they are strong and the weeds in the area are the medicines of the area.  We lack this knowledge hence the obsession with smoking “weed”.  And if a certain “pest” plant shows up in abundance, it’s there to help.  Perhaps to hold the ground in place through a season of abnormally high winds.  Nature has her reasons and we will never know.  Maybe if we ask and listen carefully, she will tell us.  Why can’t we shut up?  Why are we so enamoured by that voice in our heads?  It blocks us from hearing the real voice.  The voice that shares what is real.  Can we hear with our eyes?  Are we really looking?  We look through the screen of our thoughts and have the plethora and panerama of the beauty of Gaia, filtered out by a web of words, cleverly woven to ensure we loose touch with what we can reach out and touch.  We trade the non-reality of the mind, of words, for what is tangible.  If we can look without the commentary, we may learn a new language.  The language of perception, of actual seeing.  If we see Gaia wholly, she will tell us her secrets.  The seeing creates the understanding, one sees, and she whispers how it works.  This is real learning that never begins and never ends.

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When we were on the trail we had tossed around the idea of going back to Florida to photograph ghost orchids and see friends or do a big Texas trip. We initially tried to get our friend Eliana to come with us on a road trip from Florida to Texas if we went to Florida, but due to some personal commitments it just wasn’t going to work out. Plus, we decided that a road trip to Texas would be a great portfolio building opportunity. We have plenty of Florida nature photos but we need some Texas stuff.

Texas is a gigantic state and we really hadn’t explored all that much of it. I went camping with my parents while growing up and we did some local state parks and a few further away. My brother and I would spend hours riding our bikes along the trails. There are a couple of places within short driving distance that we want to hit before we go, LBJ Grasslands and Lake Mineral Wells State Park. We will also hit up Caddo Lake when we visit Michelle & John Paul. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas!

So, our itinerary for our trip is going to be:

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  • Palo Duro Canyon State Park
  • Colorado Bend State Park
  • Inks Lake State Park
  • Longhorn Cavern State Park
  • Choke Canyon State Park
  • Mustang Island State Park
  • Goose Island State Park with a trip to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
  • Goliad State Historic Park
  • Brazos Bend State Park
  • We bought a big car camping tent, an air mattress and a fan today. This is going to be a far cry from carrying everything on our backs. It’s definitely not going to be ‘roughing it’, but I am looking forward to it anyway.

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      Longhorn Cavern is great. Really interesting formations and a historical speak easy. You might look around the area of Marble Falls too, I don’t remember a lot about it but it looked interesting the brief time I visited.

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Being a Trail Advocate from Afar | Florida Trail

A few days ago I received the fall issue of Footprint, the magazine of the Florida Trail Association. It was a big issue, at least to me, one where the call to protect to the trail and be a trail advocate was once again in the spotlight. The trail recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a celebration at the first blaze in Ocala National Forest and the placement of a plaque to commemorate the historic blaze that began the Florida National Scenic Trail. In addition last year, a new monument at the northern terminus at Fort Pickens was erected. Two very exciting events!

This post is being published today on the 6th anniversary of the start of our thru-hike on the FT. I get a little somber about our AT and FT thru-hikes now that we’re firmly in a different life mode and look back with fondness of those months we spent hiking from Georgia to Maine and from Big Cypress National Preserve to Gulf Islands National Seashore. When we went for our little six mile hike a week and a half ago in Sam Houston NF I got the itch to get back into backpacking. The itch has been coming for awhile but with my recent purchase of a new pack and our intention to get out and try to backpack with Forest once or twice this spring, I’m really looking forward to it. With all of that, as I flipped through the magazine, and as I see updates from people in the hiking and outdoor community in Florida, I get a little wistful, wishing I could pitch in more to promote and help the trail. Alas, that’s hard to do when you are living in Texas! So, I have been doing my best to be a trail advocate from afar and cheer along the progress being made by others.

There’s definitely been an uptick in recent years in interest of the trail, especially from hikers who have been to other long distance trails but have found the FT to be something worth sharing to the hiking community. A little part of me also wants to keep it a secret, the little gem that only a few people know about—but I know better than that. If the trail is to ever be fully protected and off road connectors, it will take more people sharing about FT, pitching in with monetary donations, or volunteering time where they can.

I’m not sure where I want to go with all of this, just to say that the trail and its community is always on my mind in some manner and I’m always hoping for its continued success! Maybe this year I will do more to share news and tidbits I find out about the trail so that it can be passed on to others—I think that’s a good intention and goal to set.

With that, here are a few items of note:

  • ‘Jupiter’ started the Eastern Continental Trail in Canada back in July and is currently somewhere around the Kissimmee Prairie area in Florida (I had to come back and edit—he’s already done! He finished 1/7/17 and as I type this I’m not seeing an update on his official time and if he is now the FKT holder.). Once he arrived at Fort Pickens in Florida he began a quest for an unsupported FKT (fastest known time) of the Florida Trail. Since he already had thousands of miles under his belt, he had trail legs AND the fact he was in his home state—well, I bet he can capture the FKT. You can follow him on his blog and via his Instagram feed. —-Ohh, ok, here we go, an update from Florida Hikes: He set the record!
  • While it seems like more trail keeps getting moved to the road due to land owner and easement issues, particularly in the panhandle sections of the FT, there was new trail added in Nokuse Plantation in the panhandle, eliminating a roadwalk in the area near Bruce. I remember that roadwalk! I liked the section that we did get to walk in Nokuse so that’s exciting more trail was added to the property!
  • A 26-mile hike 50 years ago led to 1,400-mile Florida Trail via the Ocala Star Banner
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  1. Patrice says:

    You are a great advocate for the FT!!! I only have it on my radar because of you!!! I was following along with Jupiter’s adventures too, thanks to you. I bet this trail keeps growing!

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COLUMBUS, Ohio: Former Ohio State greats Jesse Owens, Jack Nicklaus and Archie Griffin have been selected as three of the NCAA’s 100 Most Influential Student-Athletes as part of the NCAA’s current centennial celebration.

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At last, Seattle is about to become a light-rail town. On Saturday, the first passengers will board the Sound Transit trains from Westlake Center through Rainier Valley to Tukwila — and behind them is nearly a century of failed proposals to build a big transit system through Seattle.

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At last, Seattle is about to become a light-rail town.

On Saturday, the first passengers will board the Sound Transit trains from Westlake Center through Rainier Valley to Tukwila — putting behind them nearly a century of failed proposals to build a big transit system through Seattle.

The initial $2.3 billion, 14-mile segment took five years to build and was filled with engineering challenges and political suspense.

The project features a unique deep station within the soft soils of Beacon Hill, and the nation's only tunnel where buses and trains share the same stations — downtown. Managers coped with toxic soil, sinkholes, street protests seeking more jobs for African Americans and a couple of minor train-car collisions.

One worker died in a supply-train crash during Beacon Hill tunneling. That stretch was so difficult that it left no time to spare in the final construction schedule, and it spooked transit-board members into canceling a deep station they had promised for First Hill.

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Ridership should grow by 2016, when a tunnel to Capitol Hill and Husky Stadium lets students and employees from the south suburbs ride 19 miles from the airport to the University of Washington campus. Eventually, it will connect to north Federal Way, Overlake and Lynnwood in a 53-mile network that Sound Transit says will attract 280,000 daily trips in 2030.

Transit: a history

If you lived in Seattle in 1891, you could ride the new electric streetcars that replaced horse-drawn trains. Cable cars climbed Madison Street and ran down to Lake Washington. A longer train turned into Rainier Valley toward Kent. Trestles in the mud flats supported elevated tracks to West Seattle.

Construction visionaries complained about traffic congestion as long ago as 1911, when engineer Virgil Bogue proposed underground and elevated trains to cope with the city's tight "hourglass shape," plus a tunnel beneath Lake Washington. Voters rejected his plan, saying it would cost too much. Again in 1926, a city committee urged fast rail to staunch the loss of customers on Seattle's declining streetcar routes. Seattle asked the state in vain to put rails into the Interstate 5 express lanes, designed in the late 1950s. After the 1962 World's Fair, experts studied stretching its one-mile tourist monorail to Shoreline.

Rail measures lost public votes in King County in 1968 and 1970. Federal aid shifted to Atlanta, and buses flourished here. Much later, Seattle voters passed monorail measures four times before canceling a line in 2005, due to a revenue shortage; the unbuilt project cost drivers $124 million in car-tab taxes.

Rails were embedded in the downtown bus tunnel in 1989, a symbolic commitment to try again. (They were installed incorrectly, and Sound Transit would replace them in 2007.)

Another regional transit package, including light rail to Tacoma, reached the ballot in 1995 but lost. A year later, Sound Transit won by offering a shorter line from the University District to SeaTac, and more express buses.

The agency claimed its cost figures were "extremely conservative," but in fact they were too low by half. After a management shake-up and scolding by federal inspectors, the agency under new chief executive Joni Earl produced realistic, higher numbers by late 2001 — and those have held up. Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Norm Dicks lobbied to save a $500 million federal grant.

Two clever moves prevented a collapse. A committee that included former Mayor Charles Royer and Jim Ellis, a leader in earlier pro-rail efforts, advocated breaking ground on a shorter south-end line. They guessed correctly the south line would help whet the public appetite for more. And years earlier, lawyers wrote an escape clause that let the agency shorten its line or extend taxes indefinitely, without a public revote that opponents demanded.

Politicians OK'd big landmark stations, tunnels, spans through Tukwila and a winding route to reach and redevelop Rainier Valley neighborhoods, while calling Link an investment in the next century.

The first line is being finished $100 million below the official federal figure of $2.4 billion, which included a financial cushion.

Light Rail on the ballot

Link has been deemed a "light-metro" hybrid by some transit wonks. In downtown Seattle, the trains go faster than downtown Portland's surface trains, which move not much faster than a pedestrian. But with 28 street crossings in Rainier Valley, capacity and speed here are less than with a big-city subway.

Millions were spent for oversized 400-foot-long stations — a nod to the future when four-car trains will be needed if the Greater Seattle population grows 1.2 million as planners warn.

Over the years, a collection of budget hawks, bus supporters, monorailists and road warriors opposed the agency, saying fixed rail reaches too few places and people to justify its prodigious costs here.

But in 2008, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels cajoled fellow transit-board members to put more rail on the ballot, after a combined roads-and-transit package tanked the year before. The $18 billion measure won decisively, buoyed by younger, pro-Obama voters.

Despite a campaign slogan of "Mass Transit Now," the full lines are 15 years from completion and taxes will last at least through the 2030s.

To reach Tacoma and Everett, a third ballot plan would need to be approved, continuing this odyssey four decades beyond its 1996 launch.

Mike Lindblom: 206-515-5631 or

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Mona goes to the Seaside – a Vintage Postcard

Last week I experienced the thrill of stumbling upon a little vignette of life from some 98 years ago.

And in the most unlikely of places.

I was browsing in the “bargain” section of our local Charity shop. ( I have a routine, you see – I begin at the “bargain” section where the not so old, and usually, grimy things are found, then I go on to the “boutique” section, followed by the “homeware” section – more on that in a later blog – and then lastly I while away an hour or so in the book section).

But here I was, in the bargain section, wading through second hand clothes and broken odds and ends when my attention was drawn to something completely out of place. There, on a table, nestled between dirty pieces of crockery and kitchenware was something intriguing: the distinctive colour of aged cardboard, and the black inked cursive of yesteryear made my heart race.

It was a postcard dated 13 January 1919!

Needless to say, I rescued it from its undignified spot in the bargain section – I know you would have, too- and I continued my thrift shopping routine, safe in the knowledge that I had hit the jackpot and that any more finds of the morning would pale in relation to this one; and once home I settled down to read the little gem:

Mona’s message to Nellie is a little postcard- sized precis of a typical beach holiday. She mentions that ‘they’ go bathing very often (Mother included), and that she is missing home, but not the idea of going back to work – sentiments still expressed by young women today; but in 1919, this simple synopsis of a day at the beach invites so many questions – what kind of bathing costumes would they have been wearing? I’m thinking knee length suits with flouncy swimming caps. Would Mother have waded into the sea from a portable bathing hut ? How many days did it take to journey to the Holiday Resort? Did they get there by bus or by train?

And what could Mona’s job have been?

I have taken great delight in ruminating over these questions, and while we will never know some things, one thing I am sure of is that Mona would  not have expected her little postcard to be so captivating a century down the line!

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Dish Pan Potatoes

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Potatoes as a compliment to summer time outdoor grilling.

Mike Maxey

  • 4 large baking potatoes (peels left on) cut into 1 inch chunks
  • 4 oz (112 grm). (1 stick) of butter
  • 1 large sweet onion cut into chunks
  • 4 carrots cut into 1 inch pieces
  • 4 stalks of celery cut into 1 inch pieces
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) garlic powder
  • 2 tbsp (30 ml) Old Bay seasoning
  • 1 tsp (5 ml) black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp (2 ml) salt
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) parsley flakes
  • (I normally don't measure anything , just make it to your taste.)
  • Have gas grill on high.
  • Use an old deep pan such as an aluminum or stainless dish pan.
  • Add the stick of butter, onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, and spices in this order. (The steam from the green veggies helps cook the potatoes on top of the mix.)
  • Cover the pan and seal it with foil and place on your grill for about 15 minutes or until potatoes are done.
  • Serve right from the pan!
I helped make this delicious dish while I was in the Army. Three of my friends and I were on temporary duty, ( no money ) and were hungry one Saturday night, so we helped clean out a refrigerator in the barracks. All we could find to cook in was a dish pan. We cooked over an open fire behind the building and it was one of the best meals we had. So try it and enjoy the Dish Pan Potatoes.


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Those who cannot boast long luscious locks are going to have to realize that eventually, the quick fixes and short term changes do not work; something more permanent and long term has to be done in order to see real results. Remember that this is a problem many men and women face every day so here are the long term things you can do to get rid of follicle anxiety:

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March 3rd, 2011  |  Published in Gambling Games

Vegas Technology, one of the leaders in online gaming developed, recently released a new video poker game. This is the first time the company has gone live with a game that is not a variant of slots.  Known as, Bump-It-Up, the game places an innovative twist on video poker. The chosen video poker variant is Jacks or Better.

Multi-hand Video Poker

The players have the option of playing four hands at the same time. However, Bump-It-Up pays out in double multiples which differ from most multi-hand video poker games. For instance, the second hand pays 2x, the third hand pays 4x and the fourth hand pays out 8x the normal winnings. The catch is the player must beat each level to advance to the next multiplier. The coin size varies between $0.01 and $5.00 with players selecting up to four wagers.

Therefore, if a player chooses to bet on all hands with four $5.00 coins per bet, the maximum wager is $80 which will be immediately deducted from the player’s casino balance. The payout table is available at all video poker games and is displayed in coins as per the number of coins wagered. There is a direct correlation between the number of coins wagered and the payout.

Winning the Game

After the betting denomination is placed, the player clocks the Deal button followed by the distribution of cards. Like most other video poker games, the player can hold specific cards and eliminate those that do not help their hand. If no winning hand combination is determined in the first round, the game is over and the player loses all wagers (even those placed for four hands).

On the other hand, if there is a win in the first round, the player will advance to the second and automatically keep the initial winnings. At this point, the payouts are doubled, based on the payout chart. As the player progresses, the winnings are multiplied for that level. If the player loses at any level, they cannot progress to the next round be do keep their accumulated winnings.

Doubling Up

Another option is to double the accumulated winnings. On the winners screen, there is a button titled Double. This is a bonus game of sorts in which the player is dealt four cards, three down, one up. The player must select any of the face down cards and will win if that card is of higher value than the face up card. A loss results in the player losing all bets.

This game puts an innovative spin on a classic betting game. The addition of multipliers makes this game extremely fun and can be highly profitable. Look for this game at all Vegas Technology casinos.

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social justice

Social Justice is an ideal which, in most definitions has two basic assumptions:
  • equality is moral: that the happiness of one person cannot be considered more important than any another, see: egalitarian?
  • society exists: that there are basic, "inalienable" or "inherent" rights in society which belong to all, by the agreement of all, belong to all, and these need to be protected enforced or provided by the state. see: social contract

Thus it is immoral for society to allow certain people or groups to suffer in lack of certain basic rights, and that if private enterprise or individual charity can't satisfy these rights, that the government must do something about it.

Different definitions of social justice differ mainly in which rights are considered to be "inalienable" and in reality, the notion of what rights should be guaranteed is a evolving, generally with progressive individuals adding more rights to the list of what is essential, and conservatives arguing that the current set is sufficient or already goes to far.

[+] a liberal position on social justice

[+] a conservative position on social justice

[+] a socialist position on social justice.

[+] a libertarian position on social justice

[+] a feminist? position on social justice.

[+] an environmentalist? position on social justice.

[+] Aspects of Social Justice

[+] Some definitions

Some Suggested Models for Social Justice

Social justice can be a slippery idea to get one's head around. Previous attempts on my part have ended up with me longing for a more manageable task, herding ferrets, or something.

This is how some others have modelled it. Please add other examples.

Ontario Coalition for Social Justice(external link)
- expanding the quality, accessibility and universality of health care, education and social welfare programmes
- promoting anti-racism
- advocating economic policies that protect the rights of workers and lead to fair employment with compensation at a liveable wage
- protecting the programmes and services that ensure our quality of life in Ontario

Centre for Social Justice(external link)
- Democracy and Corporate Power
- Inequality - race, gender, economic, health
- Peace and Justice

Citizens for Public Justice(external link)
- Socioeconomic issues
- Faith and public life
- Refugees
- Aboriginal issues

Green Party of the U.S.(external link)
- Civil Rights and Equal Rights
- Environmental Justice
- Economic Justice/Social Safety Net
- Welfare: A commitment to ending poverty
- Education and the Arts
- Health Care
- Labour
- Criminal Justice
- Population
- Free Speech and Media Reform
- Immigration/Emigration
- Housing and Homelessness

Injustice thrives on invisibility. When people's interests are not represented, they are quickly forgotten. Amartya Sen reminds us that even the most 'efficient' economy (which, after a Green tax shift, would also be environmentally efficient) doesn't mean much for social welfare.

A person who starts off ill-endowed may stay poor and deprived even after the transactions, and if {efficiency} is all that competition offers, the propertyless person may be forgiven for not regarding this achievement as a "big deal."

from Sen, A. 1977. "Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory." Philosophy and Public Affairs 6(4): 317-344

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Surely you're curious about who's responsible for this festival of lunacy

I have four children, one husband, one dog, and a full time job. For some people, sarcasm is a mood, or a facet of their personality. For me it pretty much is my personality. I laugh at everything, and almost nothing is off limits. (I do avoid religion and politics like they were covered in poop and rolled in glitter.)

A few thoughts, presented Q&A style for your browsing pleasure.

So, new to the blogging neighborhood?
Actually, no. Although this blog is fairly new, I've been blogging for several years over at The Modern Apron ( It's a food blog, and frankly food blogging is really time consuming, to say nothing of costly. Not only do you have to have (or develop) a recipe, you have to figure out something to say about it (other than, "This is yummy"), and you also have to try the recipe a couple of times to make sure you're not giving people a set of instructions that won't work, plus take and edit pictures and do the write up. However, if you search for "Salted Caramel Cheesecake" on Pinterest, the picture of the whole one with a sort of grey surface under it? That's mine and you can click through to the recipe. It's been repinned over 1800 times (at last check, and that's just from my pin--I have no idea how many people repinned it from a repin). Because of how time consuming and expensive it is, I've kind of stopped updating The Modern Apron, at least for the time being.

Thanks, that was way more information than I needed. So what's THIS blog about?
The thoughts that drift aimlessly into the sieve that's what's left of my brain. Stuff that annoys me. Stuff that makes me laugh. Stuff that if I didn't write it down here, would cause me to lose my grip on what's left of my fragile sanity. Reasons why I drink (#1: Because I can, #2: Because I have children). While the other blog is a food blog, I think of this as more like an outlet for my rabid sarcasm.

So you have kids?
Yes, four. A preteen boy in middle school, and twin boys and a daughter in elementary school. They're pretty standard issue kids with all the affection for fart jokes and inability to follow directions that implies. Like pretty much every parent I know, I struggle with whether I'm doing a good job raising my children, and being convinced that I'm screwing them up to the point where they'll all spend their adult lives ripping off liquor stores and setting fire to orphanages. Some days the hardest thing is not necessarily knowing what to say to your kids, but knowing what not to say. Other days, the hardest thing is not killing them. Kind of depends on the day.

What are some things you like?
In no particular order (and leaving my husband, and my kids and their activities off the list), wine, pizza, magazines (topics include food, gardening, travel, fashion, and lifestyle), Facebook, proper grammar and punctuation, food in general, Diet Coke, office supplies, cheese, jigsaw puzzles, Christmas, the use of the Oxford comma, and obsessively planning in every aspect of my life (I'm a project manager, so it's what I do).

What are some things you don't like?
Ear worms, camping, whining, assholes (kind of a given--I don't really know anyone who's ever said, "Oh my god, I love assholes!"), professional sports, people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" (and, at the same time, people who refer to correctly using "your" and "you're" as using correct grammar), Halloween, Taylor Swift, Minecraft, glitter, the excessive use of "Reply All," Pillow Pets, tailgaters, and people who won't speed up even when you get right up on their bumper.

Favorite TV shows?
Weren't you paying attention? I have four kids. In the first place I have no time to watch TV, and in the second place, my TV is always tuned to the Disney Channel. The only thing I can say about television that's remotely relevant is that I can't stand the theme song to "Kickin' It" because I can't understand any of the words (except, "KICKIN' IT WITH YOU!"), and that I'd like to shove the kid who plays Cat on "Sam & Cat" down a well because her voice is so annoying I can barely stand it. Oh, and I hate SpongeBob so much he's banned in my house.

Let's call it caustic.

Love Boat or Fantasy Island?
Love Boat

Favorite child?
The one who's not whining for a "computer turn."

Do you have specific career goals?
Ideally, I will do as little work as possible for as much money as possible. In a perfect world, that would be "slightly more than none" and "at least seven figures." So far I'm not doing very well in achieving this goal, but I'll keep working at it.

Educational background?
I have a B.A. in English Literature & Language. I started to get a Masters degree in English Literary Theory, but I realized that listening to lectures about postcolonial theory at 9 o'clock at night after a full day of work is a glimpse of what Hell is really like, so I cut that shit out pretty quick.

What's your position on profanity?
Fuck yeah. I have a vocabulary like a drunk longshoreman with Tourette's syndrome. If profanity offends you, you're in the wrong place.

Generational stereotype with which you most closely identify?
GenX, thank you very much. Remember: If the elevator tries to bring you down/go crazy, punch a higher floor. Insert your own meaning for that here.

Red? White?

Yes, please.

Thoughts on life?

Check back here or subscribe to this blog. I share my thoughts and opinions the way a kid with stomach virus barfs up the pizza and Sour Patch Kids he ate at Chuck E Cheese. And sometimes it's about that appealing. But like the tagline of my blog says, life almost never rhymes. Sometimes it's just annoying and sucky, so I laugh at it instead of getting mad. Or I get mad and then laugh at it.  Either way, humor is my coping mechanism.

Got a pithy one sentence summation you'd like to share with the folks at home?
I don't bother taking myself too seriously—there are plenty of people out there who will do it for me.

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I think I might be in love with you. Can we be best friends? Seriously.

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