If you like garlic and ginger....

There's a program on some cable providers called Embassy Chefs, I rather like it.  The host goes to various embassies in DC and gets their chefs to make them a national meal.  One ep featured Fiji, and they had a dish that really intrigued me.  Dirt simple to make.  They took a whole chicken, covered it in oyster sauce, then covered it in minced garlic and ginger.  I mean covered it.  Baked it in the oven, the traditional style was in a pit covered in soaked banana leaves.
 
We made it tonight using some medium organic chicken breasts.  The oyster sauce has a lot of salt, but a lot of it runs off the chicken.  I don't know if they make low-sodium oyster sauce, it might be out there.  We used a Pyrex large rectangular dish with about a tablespoon of olive oil in it to keep the chicken from sticking, three chicken breasts, slathered on the ingredients, then spooned more sauce over the garlic/ginger as some pushed off during application and covered the dish with foil. 350 degree oven, I had a probe thermometer set to alert when the chicken hit 165 but it didn't trip and we caught it at 180.
 
It was great, and wonderfully simple to make.  The chicken was moist, fully cooked, and the ginger and garlic were no where near as strong as you'd anticipate from the smell when applying it.
 
Recommended.  Assuming you like lots of ginger and garlic.

There's seemingly no end to politicians and science stupidity

A Washington state representative wants to tax bicycles because 'it isn't good for the environment.' You see, when you're riding a bike, your respiration rate goes up and that increases your expiration of carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas and bad for the environment.

Sadly, I am not making this shit up. This guy believes that driving a car is better for the environment than riding a bike.

He also argues that bicyclists don't pay road tax, when in Seattle gas tax pays for only 4% of the Seattle Department of Transportation budget, state-wide the gas tax pays for a quarter of the State DOT budget. Most bicyclists also drive cars, so his argument falls rather flat.

The stupid, it BURNS!

http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/03/02/state-lawmaker-says-bicycling-is-not-good-for-the-environment-should-be-taxed/

http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/1238258/state-rep-says-biking-is-not-earth-friendly-because-breathing-produces-co2