Finally

Finally baked ziti that is palatable. The secret is cottage cheese instead of ricotta, mozzarella cubed instead of shredded, about twice as much sauce as is usually called for, and cooking the ziti just short of al dente before adding to the sauce and putting in the oven.
Now the problem is baked ziti will be on the menu for three days as the recipe serves eight to ten.
Today is Friday the thirteenth. It is the day we celebrate the Templars. The Templars were the uber-rich of medieval society. They had accumulated vast resources through donations and contributions and renting out money. They had to rent it out as it was considered wrong to charge interest.

The King of France was in an economic bind. He had huge debts and a stagnant economy. He was in a quandry. Where could he get some quick money and how could he get rid of his crushing debt? The Kings of other countries were in a similar bind. The King of France looked around and saw that those supposedly poor Templars were actually the richest bankers in Europe, had huge land holdings, and most of his debt was owed to the Templars. On Friday the thirteenth he and the other kings rounded up all of the Templars, took their money and their land, and burned some of them at the stake. At the time debts could not be collected by dead people or heretics and the Templars were all charged with heresy and convicted in religious courts, leaving them no recourse to secular courts. The kings found this policy to be stimulating.

I wonder if the King of Washington D.C. knows about this option. Of course it would create a shortage of bankers and who knows what problems that would create? Who is the bigger thief, the man that robs a bank or the man that opens a bank? There is a very old book that talks about the charging of interest and mentions a thing called a jubilee, maybe we need a jubilee.