I am a hot food freak. I don’t know why I’ve developed a superhuman tolerance to peppers (maybe because my biological father smoked a couple of packs a day and put Tabasco, peppers, and cayenne on everything), I don’t know for sure.  I also like dark chocolate–a lot–and have purchased just about every ‘mexican chocolate’-type… Continue reading

I don’t understand why Demi Moore insists that her first name is deh-mee (accent on the meeeee) or how Cheech Marin (Mare – in) became Cheech Mar-een on the new show Rob.   *sigh*  Continue reading

Via Inside Higher Ed News:  The US Department of Education did a study on the racial component of student loan borrowers and the possible effect on the payback rates for student loans, based on race. However, they ‘accidentally’ left out black students. In a study about race. And the student loan payback rates, by race.… Continue reading

Giving points where they are deserved, Sen. Charbonneau is helping bring back the Fourth Amendment to the State of Indiana. Senate Bill #1 has passed the Senate and is heading to the House. As the Senator said: “Since the Neanderthal men were roamining the earth it’s kind of an understood rule that you don’t mess… Continue reading

Me:  Most of the best chefs tend to be men.  Except for Julia Child. Himself:  She was bad-ass. Also….  why do the best stories start with “We didn’t figure that…”  usually followed by an anecdote about explosions?  It’s akin to “Hey y’all, hold my beer and watch this!” but with better endings. Continue reading

I’m not sure what to call it, but I think the new sign that a person is losing an argument is when they use the phrase ‘coded racism‘.  Calling someone Hitler is, like, so 15 minutes ago…..   Continue reading

I go to yoga at least once a week and like it–going on year two, actually.  My teacher is focused on the physical (not freaky) aspects of it.  There have been times when I’ve limped home feeling like a tube of toothpaste that’s just been squeezed by the Jolly Green Giant.  Apparently a gentleman in… Continue reading

So he bursts into song at the Apollo during a fundraiser.  I guess he’s singing for his (future) suppers (hopefully he’ll be singing back in Chicago come this time next year). Next maybe he’ll try to match the skills of Gregory Hines instead of Al Green.  Of course NPR has to wax rhapsodic about the… Continue reading

Paul Hsieh has a post at pjmedia titled “SOPA, Guns, and Frredom; You do not protect honest nonlinear content producers from pirates by breaking the Internet forthe innocent”. This article compares gunlaws to SOPA because they “both punish the innocent for a guilty few.” And he has a great point and writes briefly about other… Continue reading

<a href="http:// Via: http://www.bookwormroom.com/”>Bookworm Room a little article from 1949. Back then I don’t think they could imagine the world of hurt the economy would be in now. I don’t think they would have thought that Republicans would go big government either. Still oddly prescient… Continue reading