CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

I'm with you, Walter, I LOVE my Kindle! And yes, you can read it on the beach, I've done so. I'm traveling now, and for the space and weight of one paperback, I can have 300,000+ books, newspapers, magazines & blogs at my disposal. Can't beat it. The wannabes who want to Klobber Kindle with new products will have some distance to go. I did hear that Kindle 3, which is supposed to be larger to handle newspapers and textbooks better, wasn't so good, got panned in a review but I haven't actually talked to anyone who owned one. I also agree it's a bummer I can't pass my books around to my friends when I finish reading it on my Kindle. But regardless, it is an awesome piece of technology and although I'll still buy paper for certain things, I LOVE my Kindle! I haven't yet met a Kindle owner who didn't love it!

Editrix, thanks! I own that cookbook, it's a great one, and so is Earl Mills.

I hate it when the headline promises something that turns out to be MIA. What happened to "Wampanoag quahog chowder" ???

You are truly a neanderthal, Monponsett, and suffering from delusions. Unfortunately, you share a fantasy held by too many people about lesbians, and your comment is deeply disrespectful of all women, and lesbians in particular, as if we don't know our own minds and bodies until some man determines what it is!

You really do need a proofreader, Walter! On this page alone, I count 6 typos, i grammar, 1 punctuation, and one use of acronym with no explanation, plus spelled COMM the first time, Comm the second time -- at least one error in every story! Love from the Gotcha Gang.

Perry's bill would prevent counselors from discussing sexual orientation with a student, and it would prevent the formation of Gay/Straight Alliance or Gay Pride groups in high schools. An ugly and poisonous approach to about 5-10% of our population. Moreover, it's absolutely abhorrent to allow one group of people (the majority) to vote on the rights of another (minority) group. Bless Deval Patrick for his stance, and shame on Jeff Perry.

Cape Wind (the project) is not a bad idea, it's a GOOD idea. Cape Wind, the book, on the other hand, is just a lousy piece of journalism. Wendy Williams is a science journalist. Too bad she didn't stick to the science and the journalism around the merits of the project, then she'd have written a book worth reading. Instead she turned it into a polemics and paeans. Oldest rule in the book: ad hominem arguments are faulty logic. Stick to the issues, and she'd have done a service with her book.

OF course Jim Gordon and Mark Rodgers would not claim that Cape Wind will address global warming -- BY ITSELF. But a hundred such installations would. That's what we need.

BarbaraDurkin: This string is about the book, remember? Walter may delete my response to you then, but the book could've presented the many cogent reasons to support this windfarm and many other similar projects. I happen to believe the wind turbines are beautiful, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I admit, so giving the opposition their argument of visual pollution, I say that is a small price to pay to address global warming and achieve U.S. energy independence. Quite simply, it is amazing to me that anyone would oppose this project.

Thousands, maybe tens of thousands of books are published annually that print and broadcast media never review or report on. This isn't "boycotting," but rather, choosing the best and most newsworthy for coverage. CAPE WIND, the book, may be newsworthy, but it is most certainly not even close to being a good book. So blatantly biased as to be cartoonish, it portrays all pro-windfarm folk as heroic angels, and anti-windfarm folk as devious devils. I say this as one who is 100% in favor of Jim Gordon's Cape Wind Nantucket Sound proposal (and lots more projects like it, one would hope). The problem with the book, I think, is that it cannot help the Cape Wind project because it's such a lousy piece of journalism, written in the breathless style of the Hollywood gossip column. I suspect many who favor the windfarm, like me, are reluctant to speak honestly about this book because we don't want to undermine the Cape Wind project in any way, be attacked as "traitors to the cause" or be claimed by the opposition. Let the book go to the remainders table where it belongs!

Richard Egan purchased his Ireland ambassadorship from Dubya, not Clinton. See --http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010315.html