Category: Mike Jurney

What’s unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional…

What’s unfolding in New York City is, at its core, a public employee union using overheated rhetoric and emotional appeals to rile public employees into insubordination. The implied threat to the city’s elected leadership and electorate is clear: cede leverage to the police in the course of negotiating labor agreements or risk an armed, organized army rebelling against civilian control. Such tactics would infuriate the right if deployed by any bureaucracy save law enforcement opposing a left-of-center mayor.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/why-the-right-should-oppose-the-nypds-flagrant-insubordination/384140/

In our house, Christmas Eve dinner is posole.  This year I set aside a batch and let it cook without chile, since…

In our house, Christmas Eve dinner is posole.  This year I set aside a batch and let it cook without chile, since there’s a little diner at the table.  Another new addition this year are baked and fried masa cakes, which you break up and put in the soup to soak up the flavor.  Squeeze a little lime, sprinkle some toasted oregano, spoon a few diced white onions, and drop in a little avocado and it’s almost like being in New Mexico…