Good job SCOTUS, Mitt- you better watch your rebuttal of your own program, Boozy Cherries!

Thank god some folks had the well-being of Americans at heart. Three cheers to those justices who voted to uphold the ACA. Yes, you'll pay a free-rider tax (as you should) if you don't purchase health insurance, but otherwise, we'll have to pay for your free-loading which is part of the soaring cost problem now. Boo to the haters out there, boo to the screamers who are wailing crazily about further efforts at repeal and the damnation that will come down in November. Boo! What do we think Mittens is going to say when he gives his drone-like address around noon? He'd better watch it being that his program in Massachusetts is largely what the ACA is. Hmm...

In the meantime, y'all, I made a batch of sour cherry jam from the Food in Jars cookbook (divine), the crust for a grapefruit tart that I'm making for a wedding shower I'm catering on Saturday, and now, a vat of boozy sour cherries is steeping away on the stove: sour cherries, Luxardo and lemon peel. Great cocktail garnishes, yes?! Mamma mia!

Pizza, gnudi, Charles, John & Donald

Tonight we're going to enjoy pizza, a backlog of Mad Men episodes and some Grgich Hills Zin. Just what the doctor ordered. It is pouring brickbats here- like overflowing the gutters in a major way type of pouring. I'm actually really enjoying it though I'm hoping all my emergent tomatoes don't get knocked off. Sigh. How amazing does ricotta gnudi with chanterelles and spinach sound?! Exactly! That, courtesy of Nancy Silverton and Mozza, is what we're having on Sunday after I pick up some awesome funghi at the FM.

In the meantime, how thrilled am I that Charles Taylor got 50 years? What a horrible human who does not deserve another day beyond the confines of prison. John Edwards, what a fall, what a life disgraced. Was it worth it in any way? Gross. And Donald T, you are the worst of all. Who can believe that he is still going on about Obama's birthplace. At this point I really think we're entering slander-libel territory!