I don’t like to unwittingly sprew corporate advertising, but, gosh darn in, the national holidays that keep popping up (sorry, couldn’t resist) seem worthy of celebration. I mean, who doesn’t love hats? Who doesn’t love ginger (Feb 22)? Who doesn’t love cowboys (July 24)? And, for today, who doesn’t love popcorn?!

So, in honor of a most delicious food that can also, incidentally (January is apparently “National Diet Month”), be a healthy snack, I bring you the recipe for “Perfect Popcorn” from that wizard of the kitchen, Alton Brown:

Ingredients

* 3 tablespoons peanut oil
* 1/2 cup popcorn kernels
* 1/2 teaspoon popcorn salt
* 3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Directions

* Put the oil, popcorn and salt in a large metal mixing bowl. Cover with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Poke ten holes in the foil.
* Hold the bowl over medium heat with a pair of tongs, shaking constantly. Keep shaking until the corn stops popping, which will take approximately three minutes.
* Remove the bowl from the heat and carefully peel away the foil. Incorporate any salt that has stuck to the side of the bowl.
* Melt the butter, in the microwave or in a pan, and drizzle over the popcorn while turning the bowl.

Of course, if you’re celebrating National Diet Month, you might want to skip that last step.

For those interested in helping Haiti, by the way, readers have sent in excellent suggestions in response to my last blog post. Go for it. (Note: I’ve tweaked both the numbers and the wording about Limbaugh since this first went up; my Limbaugh wording at first may have overstated his position.)

Now it’s true that Haiti has had lousy leadership and lousy governance. But doesn’t it seem rather unfair to tell a kid he’s not going to get his broken leg set because his country has a legacy of bad leaders?

I was delighted that the White House denounced as “utterly stupid” the Rev. Pat Robertson’s suggestion that Haiti had suffered its earthquake because it had made a “pact with the devil,” and as “really stupid” the comment by Rush Limbaugh that Americans already donate to Haiti through tax dollars — which many took to mean that he discouraged giving, a suggestion he has strongly denied. In any case, I think those comments may reflect a current that many people think even if they don’t articulate, something like this: Those Haitians have screwed up their country, and we already pour money into their economy. We have our troubles at home, we have our needs, so why should our hard-earned dollars go to support Haitians who don’t help themselves. We’ve already been generous, and it hasn’t worked.

First, a fact check. In 2008, the most recent year for which we have figures, the United States donated 92 cents per American to Haiti. Granted, any year can fluctuate, so look at three-year totals. The United States contributed $2.32 per American to Haiti over the last three years for which we have data (about 80 cents a year). That’s much less than other countries do, even though Haiti is in our hemisphere and has historic close ties to the U.S. For example, Canada contributed $12.13 per person to Haiti over three years, and Norway sent $8.44. (Those figures are from David Roodman at the Center for Global Development, and in a previous version of this post I mistakenly said that they were per year.) Other countries that contribute more, per capita, to Haiti than the U.S. are Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium. True, there are more Americans, so collectively our aid amounts to more than one-quarter of the pot in Haiti, but that’s only because we’re such a big country. Given the per capita sums, we have no right to be bragging about our generosity in Haiti.

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Jimmy Kimmel was a guest on the video ‘and Jay Leno Show’ on Thursday night, and was supposed to be just a guest Jay is a natural ‘ten out of ten’ section, where one asks ten questions. With nearly all of the answer, but, Kimmel was able to find a way for the development of response to some form of insult to Leno. While Jay took on a good step, and the answers were so anti-Leno, we really wonder whether the pre-planned, or an act of pure contempt for Leno. Watch and tell us what you think!

Jay Jimmy: “You know Pranks … What is the best joke you’ve pulled out of the ever?”

Jimmy reply: “NBC has ordered, such as showing off your TV?”

And laser focus of aggression towards Kimmel Jay is a sign of entertainment overhwelming support his colleagues and the public is showing about Conan O’Brien, who feel slighted by Leno. Through the exchange of Lino – Kimmel, interrogation, most of them went like this:

“I want to say that our hearts go out to the United Nations, which has experienced one of the greatest losses in its history,” the president said. “We have no doubt that we can carry on the work that was done by so many of the U.N. effort that have been lost, and we see that their legacy is Haiti’s hope for the future.”

Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and members of his national security team, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, President Obama said the United States stood in solidarity with Haiti and told the people of Haiti that they would not be forgotten or forsaken.

WASHINGTON — Calling Haiti a top priority that would involve every element of America’s national capacity, the president on Thursday announced $100 million in aid to help with relief efforts in the devastated country.

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