Here is our family's recipe, for those who don't have it:

One large chicken, cut up
One onion, quartered
Two celery stalks, quartered
Two carrots, quartered
Two cloves garlic
Two-four chicken boullion cubes
One cup rice
Four eggs, separated
Juice of two lemons

Simmer chicken parts in water, adding chicken bullion cubes, onion, carrots, celery, and garlic. When done, skim out the veggies, set the chicken aside, and skim the fat from the stock. (make sure you have about 8 cups--add canned stock or water plus boullion cubes to make 8 cups, if necessary). Bring the stock to a boil. Add 1/2 to 1 cup rice (depending on how "ricey" you like it). Reduce heat and simmer until rice is done. You can add some of the chicken meat, diced, if you want. Remove the pot from the heat. Separate 4 eggs. Beat egg whites until they peak.  Beat the yolks.  Stir in the beaten yolks, then slowly add the juice of two lemons, beating the whole time. Slowly add the stock, a little at a time, while beating, until you have added about two cups worth. Then pour the mixture slowly back into the pot, stirring gently all the while.
(Take the skin off of the chicken pieces and brown the chicken in butter to serve alongside, or save the meat that you haven't added to the soup for another use.)

At a LA-based litigation firm he oversaw high-profile cases... a successful idea theft lawsuit involving the reality show The Apprentice and its producer, Mark Burnett, as well as Donald Trump

Some 80 percent of people like Mark still said, two months later, that it was one of the five most important things that had ever happened to them.

I enjoyed the first two episodes of AMC's The Terror.  I like the casting of the actors who played King George from The Crown and Julius Ceaser and Brutus from HBO's Rome.

I didn't really get into the first episode of Lost In Space on Netflix.  Too much kid stuff.  I might give it another try to see what they do with Parker Posey .

Just watched the first episode of RELLIK, the new crime drama on MAX.  It's very good.  It's being told in an interesting backwards way.  It's British.  Speaking of BBC, KILLING EVE is a new series on BBC that's also very good.  It's about a female hitperson and the female LE person, Eve, seeking her.

I am almost through LOST IN SPACE.  It's excellent.
Ruffian, one thing you will notice is the robot is the Hodor of the series.

President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as "international economic raiding."

But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley's announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: "We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future."

This is the week we know, with increasing certainty, that we are entering the last phase of the Trump Presidency. This doesn't feel like a prophecy; it feels like a simple statement of the apparent truth. I know dozens of reporters and other investigators who have studied Donald Trump and his business and political ties. Some have been skeptical of the idea that President Trump himself knowingly colluded with Russian officials. It seems not at all Trumpian to participate in a complex plan with a long-term, uncertain payoff.

There is no longer one major investigation into Donald Trump, focussed solely on collusion with Russia. There are now at least two, including a thorough review of Cohen's correspondence. The information in his office and hotel room will likely make clear precisely how much the Trump family knew. What we already know is disturbing, and it is hard to imagine that the information prosecutors will soon learn will do anything but worsen the picture.

Of course Trump is raging and furious and terrified. Prosecutors are now looking at his core. Cohen was the key intermediary between the Trump family and its partners around the world; he was chief consigliere and dealmaker throughout its period of expansion into global partnerships with sketchy oligarchs. He wasn't a slick politico who showed up for a few months. He knows everything, he recorded much of it, and now prosecutors will know it, too. It seems inevitable that much will be made public. We don't know when. We don't know the precise path the next few months will take. There will be resistance and denial and counterattacks. But it seems likely that, when we look back on this week, we will see it as a turning point. We are now in the end stages of the Trump Presidency.

The hype could be true.  This could be the next LOST.

Which I did not get around to until last year.

Sometimes Mark Wahlberg does a good job, sometimes he doesn't.  This was more of the latter.  I think he's one of those well paid stars who has limited acting range. When he plays a small town, blue collar character like a cop, athlete or solider, he usually pulls it off.  But when he plays the smart guy or someone in a nice suit, his limitations are on display.

Christopher Plummer was solid as always, except in the flashback scenes where they tried to make him look younger.  It made we wonder what the film would have been like had they kept the younger (by 30 years) Kevin Spacey.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is warning that "many" news articles on the Trump-Russia probe have been wrong.

The statement from a spokesperson did not single out particular stories. But the warning did come after media inquiries about a McClatchy News story on Friday that said Mr. Mueller has evidence that President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, did in fact travel to Prague in 2016 as alleged by the Christopher Steele dossier.

"What I have been telling all reporters is that many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate," the Mueller spokesperson said. "Be very cautious about any source that claims to have knowledge about our investigation and dig deep into what they claim before reporting on it. If another outlet reports something, don't run with it unless you have your own sourcing to back it up."

With all due respect, I don't get "confused".

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled it would appoint a special prosecutor to argue that Arpaio's guilty verdict should remain on the books. Since the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions has refused to defend Arpaio's conviction for contempt of court, the new a special prosecutor will.

Arpaio has called the court's ruling "totally improper" and said it the court would be put in an "accusatory role." In July 2017, Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after he refused to obey an order from a judge to stop violating the fourth amendment rights of Latinos. Arpaio's attorney told Buzzfeed that the decision "raises a lot of disturbing questions about the neutrality of the court."

"The home-sharing giant Tuesday e-mailed a broad swath of its Boston customers urging them to e-mail City Hall to oppose "unreasonable restrictions" it said Wu has proposed on short-term rentals, including a 30-day cap on stays when the unit's owner is not home. And it accused Wu of being "aligned with big hotel interests against the interests of regular Bostonians.""

There was a proposed 90 day cap, it was never 30 days.  Michelle Wu is the president of the city council, very popular, and is widely viewed as a progressive - trying to pit her against "regular Bostonians" on behalf of big business is laughable.

Nearly a dozen House Republicans have signed on to a letter calling for the Justice Department to prosecute eight of President Donald Trump's political enemies.

"You just brought him into this," she scolded Bash. "This ought to be fun moving forward, Dana. We're now going to talk about other people's spouses and significant others just because they either work at the White House or CNN? ... CNN just went there."

Conway accused Bash of trying to "harass and embarrass" her before cryptically commenting on what constitutes a "difference of opinion" between spouses.

"By definition, spouses have a difference of opinion when adultery is happening," Conway said. "By definition, spouses have a difference of opinion when one is, I don't know, draining the joint bank account to support things that maybe the other disagrees with. So this is a fascinating `cross the Rubicon' moment."

Sen. Rand Paul, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in a series of tweets sent just before the panel was scheduled to gavel into session, that he would support the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State.

"After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support President Trump's belief that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan, today I received confirmation the Director Pompeo agrees with @realDonaldTrump."

He just seems like one more fatality in Trumpland.

Fired FBI Director James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as one of his personal attorneys,

Pulitzer-winning reporter David Cay Johnston: "The evidence suggests Trump is a traitor"
Investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years dares to imagine impeachment -- and President Nancy Pelosi

. There is nothing that prevents indicting a sitting president, but it is an untested issue. Mueller is going to have to decide whether to indict him or to go to Congress.

If the overwhelming conclusion of the Mueller report is that the Russians put Trump in the White House, then you face a second terrible problem: What do you do about Mike Pence, who is also the beneficiary of Russian interference?

If the Congress impeaches and removes Trump and Pence, it will only be because the Democrats control Congress. So unless something else changes, we get President Nancy Pelosi. You can just imagine the people who will be in the streets screaming coup d'état if she's president.

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Let me be very clear and quotable about this. At an absolute minimum, Donald Trump has divided loyalties, and the evidence we already have suggests that Donald Trump is a traitor. In fact, I would say that the evidence we already have, the public materials such as emails for example, strongly indicate that Donald Trump is a traitor. However, I don't even think he understands what he's done.