Joseph

Made more Gougères, this time added some black pepper and tograshi to kick up the spice. I made a sandwich with one as the bread and spread some homemade hummus inside with turkey and a few dashes of Tabasco sauce. So damn good

Someone dressed as Charon standing on a board ln Lake Merritt, using a scythe to push themselves through the water

Happy Halloween 🎃👻

Gougères cooling on a rack

Gougère with a bite showing the hollow center with cheesy webbing.

Gruyere/ Parmesan Gougères

Baguette #breadsky

Don't say I was the old guy. I do not do mosh style dance moves.

Who was going nuts with some mosh style dance moves but not in the pit and was annoyed when the singer took some time to talk before the last song.

I think that's it.

3) a guy who complained loudly about the lighting and was promptly escorted out by a bouncer 4) a large dude (with an effeminate manner of speech) and a woman getting in a tiff over her spot and him calling her a bitch. 5) an old guy...

Went to see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Warfield tonight. Great show, though there were some weird vibes in the crowd, including: 1) some guy who kept saying "where's Peter?" 2) old couple talking loud next to me who also kept bumping into me probably looking for a third.

Whole grain (wheat/rye) sourdough #breadsky

Oh yeah it's sourdough too.

Loaf of bread on a wire rack.

100% whole grain "Workday" bread (15% rye) #breadsky

Weather app showing: null degrees and "feels like null"

Oh great, another night of null weather in the East Bay 🙄

One of my favorite books from the last couple of years.

Tyromancy

It's wild that Ezra Klein thinks we should imitate the Republicans if Democrats want to win, while ignoring the fact that the Republicans won after defeat by refusing to imitate the Democrats. He's learning completely the wrong lesson, most likely because he actually prefers many Republican ideas.

user: whY foot hurt cold?
ChatGPT: Great question, you're thinking about this is a really smart way.

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

The Minority Report keeps coming up, very much in the zeitgeist.

A brilliant study of a man who was both exceptional and everyday in the worst possible ways.

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal." (Eichmann in Jerusalem).

No this isn't written about the Democrats on Palestine, rather this is from Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.

"It was at this time that a 'moderate wing'... came into existence, consisting of those who were stupid enough to believe that a murderer who could prove he had not killed as many people as he could have killed would have a marvelous alibi..."

Selfie with background of the bay bridge and east bay

Took a bike ride out to Yerba Buena Island

We should tax the wealthy, but overly suggesting the need to maintain a balanced budget historically does have that danger of implicitly supporting the need for austerity to make up for shortfalls. Something to consider!

It's commonly known that the US economy is not like a household budget, and that deficit spending can be fine. But a balanced budget does have a certain rhetorical appeal. Still, we should remember the better attack is against the reduction in social programs instead of the increase in the deficit

He also cut spending on social programs, but not as much as he increased other costs. Democrats took the bait and criticized the deficit, which switched them into the role of supporting austerity policies to balance the budget. As Bill Clinton did.

People liked the social welfare programs of the new deal and great society. But an interesting switch occured during the Reagan admin. He entered office with the promise of a balanced budget, but ballooned it with a double pronged attack-- tax cuts for the wealth and a massive military increase

Reading Melinda Cooper's excellent book Counterrevolution. One interesting point is about how Republicans and Democrats switched places on balancing the budget. Democrats had been the spenders leaving Republicans to try to balance things. This gave democrats an advantage

Baguettes #breadsky