Today’s New York Times has the usual tales of woe: our new Iraqi allies, the Sunnis, are targeting our erstwhile allies the police and tribal chiefs, for death; it seems that the Bush friends who are managing the oil drilling on federal lands were taking favors from oil companies; a New Jersey town that drove out illegal immigrants is in economic hardship as a result; women no longer report being happier than men because they have a longer to-do list than ever; and ping-ponging rather than the procedural conference committee is now the way partisan bills become law. Sigh.

But hey, for those of us living in Portland, day to day eating is still a prize, as the Times finally gets around to
reporting.