Lamb Burgers with herbed yogurt

Served 6
1 small onion, peeled
1.5 in. Fresh ginger
4 large garlic cloves peeled
2 cups fresh cilantro
2-3 green chilies chopped or up to 1 teasp red chili powder
1 lb ground lamb
.75 teasp ground cumin
1.5 teasp garam masala
1 rounded teasp salt
1 large egg
2 slices thickly sliced whited bread, crumbed(or enough to bind well)
2 tablsp veg oil + extra for oiling

Herbed yogurt:
1.5 cups Greek-style yogurt
3 cups fresh cilantro leaves
1 handful fresh mint leaves or 1 tablsp good dried mint
1-2 green chilies
Salt to taste
.5-1 teasp fresh ground black pepper

To serve:
Buns, lettuce/spring mix, sliced plum tomatoes, large onion slices (rings)

Directions:
Chop/mince th onion, ginger, garlic, cilantro and green chilies. Add to th ground meat along w/ remaining ingredients.

Shape into six burgers and chill for 20 minutes or until you want to eat. Take out 30 minutes before cooking.

Meanwhile, mix together all th ingredients for the herbed yogurt and season to taste.

Heat th oven/broiler and cook burgers on a well-oiled baking sheet/broiler pan for 10 minutes, turning them halfway through. Add th buns to th oven for 3-4 minutes before th burgers come out.

Serve in warmed buns on th bed of greens, tomato and onion rings with a heaping spoonful of th herbed yogurt on top.

Yummmm
Mr. Rodney Lee Jones Jr.

Oven-fried chili chicken

1.75 lbs. Chicken, skinned and forked all over
3 tablsps veg. Oil
.25 teasp ea.: salt and freshground bl.pepper
.75 teasp ground cumin
4 slices of white bread crumbed
1 large egg beaten
1 lemon cut into wedges to serve

Marinade:
1.25 in fresh ginger
9 large garlic cloves
2-4 green chilies sans seed and membranes
1 teasp ea: salt, garam masala
1 tablesp lemon juice
2 tablesp veg oil

Blend marinade ingredients into paste and place in nonmetallic bowl. Add chicken and coat well in th paste. Leave in fridge for couple hrs or over night. Bring to room temp before cooking.

Preheat oven to 425. Pour oil in a roasting pan large enough to accomodate chicken in one open layer. Place pan on a high shelf in th oven to heat up for 15 minutes.

Mix th salt, black pepper, and cumin into bread crumbs. Take chicken out of th marinade letting excess drip off, roll in th spicy crumbs, ensuring an even coating on all sides. Dip into the egg and add a second coating of the crumbs.

Place th chicken in th oiled roasting pan and cook for 20 minutes. Then lower the oven temp to 400F, turn th chicken over and cook another 15-25 minutes (depending on size of th joints) or until cooked through. Serve fresh from the oven with lemon wedges.
Mr. Rodney Lee Jones Jr.

Even Time is Money

Note for example the ways in which the great professional vocations of the West - lawyers, journalists, academics, doctors - have been co-opted and corrupted by bottom line thinking. Money and "efficiency" are the values by which we stand, not law, truth or health. Students are imagined as "customers", citizens as "stakeholders".
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In the US, and increasingly even in Europe, the income differential between the poor and the wealthy already resembles that of banana republics.

An Economics textbook I read somewhere described economics as "the study of the way people interact with each other" or something to that effect. Of course, it's usually defined with regard to the production and distribution of wealth, or goods and services... However the term apparently derives from Greek roots, roughly translating to "the rules of the household, or the rules of management of a household (or administration)..."
So, in a sense, the policies of our home reflect the politics or our interactions with people beyond our home.
And the "bottom line thinking" that Barkawi says has prevailed in a Western-dominated (capitalist) world: this thinking seems to have corrupted each generation more than the previous, so it's no surprise that people will silently ignore and endure the unjust suffering and neglect of others, "as long as I got my own..." Look at the delays in the recent US debt debacle. Then I try to fathom what motivates violent flash-mobbing youth... Humankind seem increasingly disaffected and even irrationally selfish.
"Money is the root of all evil."
"Mo' money, mo' problems."
It's true, too, as far as I can tell, that "few today in the West can imagine any other politics than those of big money": Big money apparently led us headlong into recession, has stifled our recovery, and seems to dictate the government of the Land of the Free. Money talks, and people will listen. Big money talks, and people will "shut up, obey, and collaborate in the dark work of exploitation for profit, for which they will be well rewarded, at least financially..."
What it all means: alienation from each other disaffected neighbor, and yet (or thus) an inflated sense of self-importance (collectively) has turned our interactions into more and more of a mathematical equation.
A better way seems so simple: we must throw away the notion of being motivated by "What can I get out it", and instead consider more enthusiastically "What can I put into it?"

If our social interactions are going to be quantitized, let's focus on increased value (+)

How is this done you may ask? Let me come back to that later (eyes blurring)