New York Primary

It's the kind of thing the American media doesn't hesitate to call "rigged" when it happens in other countries.

Can someone tell me if the United Nations even recognizes elections like this one? If they don't, then don't we have to redo it?

Democracy Now! calls it "chaos"; that's generous. It stretches the meaning of the word, for me. Really? Something we knew was going to happen for years, and the problems are put down to "chaos"? If chaos is deliberately engineered, isn't that a paradox?

Heat Up the Pan First, then worry about what to put in it

Back to the basics, and the origins of this blog: hunger.

Just heat up the cast-iron pan when you get up, and the rest will fall in. It's hard to know what you're hungry for when all the yesterdays are giving you a sour belly. Sometimes it's best to let your belly lead you: when your brain is mainly a source of indigestion.