Boozy Carrot Cake

Vaughn Vreeland of the New York Times

Ya know, fellas, sometimes you just run out of steam.  I've been posting a lot here for the last 100 days and more, but yesterday I realized I just don't want to write about the horror anymore.  The stupidity, the craziness, and the absurdity are still growing, and going from bad to worse to beyond godawful - and it's breaking my heart.  

We are living through a great turning point in the history of the world.  The sunlit world of peace, prosperity, and progress - on the whole and in the main, despite all its flaws and failures - that our fathers fought for is disintegrating before our eyes.  Instead, hateful right-wing dictatorships are arising all around the world, hand in hand with fundamentalist religion, willful ignorance, arbitrary cruelty, and the worship of Mammon.  Liberty has dropped her lamp, and Justice her scales.

The human race, led by fools, frauds, and fanatics, seems to be in a race to the bottom, sinking back to a lower level of civilization that we thought we had left far behind us.  And worse is to come, perhaps.  I fear that the 21st century will make the 20th look like a Sunday-school picnic.

No one should take my words as a counsel of despair, but rather as an urgent warning.  In any case, I can't do anything about it, and right now I need to come up for air and clear my head.  So I'm taking a break from nausea, disgust, and political blogging - for how long, who knows.

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In this mortal life, we have to take the bitter with the sweet, and we should certainly enjoy the sweet parts while we can.  It just so happens that a certain foodist in New York has got a sweet shade of orange for you to try - oh, Mary, don't ask!

We both love carrot cake, but I don't care for raisins.  M.P., however, thinks it would be super.

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