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Although watching her is like reading her thesis, about like a hangnail only worse  Read more 

Testing, Testing. Check, Check. Trying it out. I just had to say to you guys, it sure is fun reading all you blogs & comments, but the main reason I had to post is because I noticed the QOTD this AM and thought: this is so typical, I can hardly understand why they would even bother to put it up. This is the one I’m typing about:

QOTD

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

— Gore Vidal

All you liberals are so far more enlightened than everyone else - it’s amazing that you can be so inclusive.

Rush Limbaugh, pictured after being detained at Palm Beach International airport for possession of prescription drugs.  Read more 

So I’m working on a recipe from 1832 called “Apple Poupeton” and trying to find out what the hell a “poupeton” is. The online dictionaries all say it is “a puppet, or small baby” which is weird enough, then that it is “obs.” which I sure hope means “obsolete” as we trust that small babies are not yet classed as obscene, although in the case of puppets one can never be certain. But then one more hit comes up, which we present to you here as we haven’t had any recipes lately. Let this serve as much as a warning of the bizarrities of computerized translators as a possible food item:

Poupeton of zucchini flowers :  Read more 

Wherein Shystee sautee’s a reasoned (and well seasoned) discussion about probability and morality down to a reduction of mildly salty absurdity.

Mr. Shystee: If there is a sliver of a chance of [gaining the magical power to have sex with any hot woman you come across, by getting a spider web tattoo on your face], a five to ten percent chance, you have a moral obligation, I say, to do it.”

Interlocutor: Sounds good, but why would hot women want to sleep with me if I get a spider web tattoo on my face? How does that work?  Read more