Spokesweasel Jay Carney refused to say.
(via Instapundit)
Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
Those were the days in which it was demonstrated that in this world morality depends on the stability of the currency. An ancient truth, which had merely come to be forgotten over the long years in which money, incontestably, had had value.
Joseph Roth, Right and Left (referring to the post-World War I hyper-inflation in Austria and Germany.)
For those who perhaps didn’t appreciate Jonathan’s appetizer of yesterday, I offer you this appetizer I had on a recent trip to France.
Tartine de chevre chaud tomate-basilic, salade gourmande
Hot goat cheese toast with tomato-sweet basil, green salad
This week in the neighborhood where I live was designated for the annual bulk-trash pickup – so residents were notified a week or more ago. Once a year we can put out on the curb … well, just about anything except concrete rubble and chunks of stone. The city sends out a couple of long open-topped trailer trucks, and a special truck with a large mechanized claw that reaches down and gathers up the bulk items.