"The good news: You've just escaped with your lives and My help from Egypt.

The bad news: I'm not going to let you into Canaan, the promised land, the land of milk and honey. Instead you're going to wander in the desert for forty years, dying until you are all gone. Dead. Sleeping with the fishes. No Canaan for you.   

The good news: I'll let your children in. But not you."

This Thursday is Tisha b'Av (the 9th day of Av), the anniversary of the day God broke this news to the Jews.

Other bad stuff happened to us on this day too. The holy temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. The Western Wall ("wailing wall" to some) is the last part standing. The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, part of the Spanish Inquisition. 

Any wonder it's a fast day?

Tim Jarrett says James Beard rocks.

Before I went to Ikea to get a replacement cabinet side, I put dinner in the oven. We had some brisket that I needed to cook, so looking over my newly unpacked cookbooks, I found a recipe idea from one of our James Beard cookbooks that looked good.

I put a long piece of aluminum foil in a roasting pan, sliced an onion and a half thinly and put half down in the foil, laid the brisket on top, put the rest of the onion on top with salt, pepper, a little olive oil, and a splash of red wine. Then I sealed the aluminum foil over the meat, put the whole thing in a 250° F oven, and forgot it for the next four hours. As I was putting rice on the stove, I just peeked into the foil after verifying the meat was up to temperature: it’s swimming in juices and smelling heavenly. Pot roast in a pan. This James Beard guy knows what he’s on about. (Surprising I don’t have a “food” category—I guess I’ll need to start one.)

What is critical mass, the tipping point, from isolated klogging to mass adoption? Note that Windley is an executive in the organization, so his leadership may weigh heavier.