Sox, what's the news about my cousin? Tell me!

I have a tentative interview tomorrow with channel 7 about Sassafras (and the evil calls). DH is in Switzerland so I have to do this one alone. So. Far. Out. Of. My. Comfort. Zone.

Also, Perkins: Penny and Mary H. say, "Hi!"

Argh. In Stupid Human Tricks news, Sara's bus has all year driven past the local Planned Parenthood, where at least twice a week abortion protesters are outside with signs (some of them graphic). Made for some hard questions to answer, but the bus routes are pretty concrete (or so I thought) and some of them are dictated by how old the borough is, and which streets the buses can actually get down safely.

They got a new bus driver a few weeks back. She's started taking different routes and arriving at the bus stop from three directions, depending on her mood, but whatever. She's there on time, more or less, and there are only three or so weeks left of school.

Today, parents are gathered at the stop for the afternoon pickup, and the bus doesn't show. Minutes go by, two moms are on their cells to the school, when down the street come the kids, the oldest only in third grade, and one of them in kindergarten.

The bus driver let them out a block away, on the wrong side of the street (SO THEY HAD TO CROSS ON THEIR OWN), with not one parent there.

Apparently parent phone calls about the protesters only made a difference *now*, with a fraction of the the year left, and the new bus driver jumped the gun, since not one of the families was informed about this yet. Not to mention that she picked them up at the regular stop this morning.

I've already called the school, and I'm still vibrating with rage.

That seriously sucks, Amy. WTH are they thinking?

In other news of OH CRAP, they are tracking a tornado across Oklahoma that I guess is getting ready to cross a freeway. It sounds like from the way they're talking about it that it wouldn't be obvious to someone driving on it that they were about to be in the shit. That is just so freaking scary.

The pics on the weather channel are some of the scariest live pics that I've seen. Living in the central US, that's a lot of scary. At least one is a really big tornado.

Please dissipate and don't come north.

Question about cooking: I've got a recipe for beef burgundy that calls for beef consomme--is that the same as beef broth? Because I have some of that in my fridge right now and would love to get rid of it. Also, it calls for either burgundy wine or another dry red--any recommendations other than burgundy? I don't drink red wine at all, so don't know anything about the different varieties.

Thanks for the moral consistency link. I have done one of the tests, and I came out 100% in moral consistency.

Wow. That was surprising.

I love the first comment on the Cantor story:

"He could have at least waited until they've dug up all the bodies before putting his ideological stake in the ground."

What a fucker.

He really is. There are terrible stories coming out of there and they are potentially in the path of the storms again tonight.

Brenda, I'm about to e-mail you.

Also, it calls for either burgundy wine or another dry red--any recommendations other than burgundy? I don't drink red wine at all, so don't know anything about the different varieties.

Cabernet sauvignon is generally going to be nice and dry. And my experience is that, for wine to cook with, you really don't need to get a bottle that costs more than $10-ish.

I don't drink a lot of wine, so I buy the 4-pack of single serve bottles to keep around for cooking. Works great.

I've got a recipe for beef burgundy that calls for beef consomme--is that the same as beef broth?

You can totally use beef broth.