Margie’s Kitchen: Southern Corn bread (Mississippi Style) http://bit.ly/114Qwc7 #recipe
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Margie’s Kitchen: Gold and Orange Chicken Kebobs
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Margie’s Kitchen: Crab Pizza
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Margie’s Kitchen: Cold Poached Salmon
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It’s horribly unfair that the election is over and all the DVRed shows STILL HAVE THE POLITICAL ADS! It’s UNFAIR!
It’s horribly unfair that the election is over and all the DVRed shows STILL HAVE THE POLITICAL ADS! It’s UNFAIR!
Yeah, those "Tick" rumors appear to be true
Crosses fingers …
"It’s starting to smell a little like danger in here — or heavily fried food."
Originally shared by +Jim McCloskey
SPOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
‘The Tick’ TV Series Creator Confirms Reboot Rumors
‘The Tick’ creator Ben Edlund has confirmed that a reboot of the superhero parody is in development.
The Relics of Kiska
I believe one of my great-uncles fought in the Aleutians during WW2, but I don't recall precisely. Mom?
Untouched Relics from a Baffling WWII Battle on a Barren Island
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Kiska Island, in the Aleutians far west of Alaska, is not a hospitable place. It’s cold. It’s topped with a volcano. It’s 1,000 miles from medical assistance….
Free Speech vs Terrorist Support
What are the boundaries of Constitutional protection of Free Speech (esp. regarding political topics), vs incitement of and coordination with Evil Terrorists Who Want To Kill Us? And, no, you can't cop out with a "I'll know it when I see it?" excuse.
(And, no, I don't have a clear answer. I'll know it when I see it. But I'd much prefer to err on the side of Free Speech.)
Is Translating Jihadist Texts on the Internet a Crime?
In the spring of 2005, Tarek Mehanna began translating radical Arabic books and videos into English for the website At Tibyan. The materials had an undeniable flavor of terrorism, encouraging readers to join al-Qaida and kill American soldiers in Iraq. But even the government acknowledges that Mehanna never translated anything…
'Til Death Do Us Download
Who owns your Kindle purchases after you die? Or your Google play purchases. Or your iTunes downloads?
The straightforward answer is, base on the EULAs you've clicked through, nobody. Or, rather, they revert to Amazon / Google / Apple, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I predict some serious law around this within the next ten years. In the meantime, consider formats (purchased or converted) that leave those digital assets to your heirs (assuming that they have any interest in them). And, as part of that, consider your ethical position in doing so.
Who Owns Your Kindle E-Books After Death?
The fate of your online life after death is a sensitive topic, and one both the law and technology companies have struggled with how to handle. Last week, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell took one step toward a possible solution, signing into law first-of-its-kind legislation that will grant Delawarean families the…
One more thing to be ticked off at ISIS about
Yes, unfortunately they are pretty much ruining it for any company that named itself after the Egyptian goddess (let alone what it's doing for the goddess' reputation).
Also another reason I wish we'd continued using the acronym ISIL for them, both because it avoids the whole trademark issue, and because "Levant" is a word that's sadly fallen out of common usage.
Isis Mobile Wallet App Changes Name to Softcard
The Isis mobile wallet app backed by three of the largest U.S. wireless carriers is changing its name to Softcard after a violent military group of the same name began to dominate headlines around the world.
"Work is what a body's obliged to do"
Yes, breastfeeding is a good thing. We should encourage women to do it when possible and practical and when it works for them.
Laying societal pressure on women that they are a failure as a woman and a mother for not managing to breastfeed, for whatever reason, is not a good thing.
The Pressure to Breast-Feed Is Hurting New Moms With Postpartum Depression
No one knows exactly what causes prenatal and postpartum depression. It’s a complicated dance of hormones, predisposition to depression, and other factors. A new study, presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association this week, explores the cultural pressures that new moms face—also dads, but I’m going…
Robo-schedules
I remember in those halcyon days when I worked at a minimum wage job at Burger King. In those days the workers were almost all students or ex-students, and the boss would set up a fairly regular schedule, and if he wanted you to fill a different time slot, he'd ask.
Today, minimum wage jobs are rare as hen's teeth, occupied not by students but by retirees, single parents, people who are working two or three part-time positions. Summer teenage employment is way down because the jobs they used to take — like my Burger King hitch — are latched onto by people trying to put food on the table, not saving to buy a car stereo.
Which makes these sort of shift optimization systems particularly pernicious, because they make stability and certainty a thing of the past, turn employees into resource pegs to be auto-allocated to the next hole, and make it nigh-impossible to arrange for child care, or a second job, or other possible necessities (with knock-on effects for family and friends).
In a relatively sane job market, that sort of policy would reach a balance point pretty quickly, with folk who find it problematic going out to find another, hopefully better position. With high unemployment, though, people don't necessarily have that choice.
Kudos to Starbucks for adjusting their policies. It would be nice, though to see some stability and lack of uncertainty (you know, those things we keep hearing are necessary for "job creators" to prosper and grow) extend to more workers as well.
Employers Now Making It Impossible to Be a Poor Working Mom
Jodi Kantor published a devastating expose in the New York Times this week, detailing the latest fresh hell visited upon low wage workers by their corporate bosses: erratic work schedules created by “software that choreographs workers in precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other data” to figure out how…
The paragon of death penalty convictions turns out to be a bust
Antonin Scalia once namechecked convicted murderer Henry Lee McCollum as a perfect example of why capital punishment was such a keen idea. This week, after 30 years on Death Row, McCollum was freed based on DNA evidence.
Of course, Scalia has also proposed that there's nothing particularly un-Constitutional about executing an innocent man, so long as all the legal forms have been followed properly. So I guess this episode won't make him reconsider.
Antonin Scalia’s Favorite Murderer Is Innocent
The convictions of two mentally disabled half-brothers were vacated and the two men were ordered released by Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser in North Carolina on Tuesday. They were freed from prison Wednesday. Henry Lee McCollum, 50, had been on death row for 30 years, longer than anyone in North…
The "Untouchables" of Europe
I'd never heard of the "Cagot" before. Their history (what we know of it) is fascinating, as are the echoes of prejudice against them centuries after the laws restricting them were eliminated.
The last untouchable in Europe
Sitting in her little house near Tarbes, in the French Pyrenees, Marie-Pierre Manet-Beauzac is talking about her ancestry.
The Vikings and the English language
I love looking at the history of English. The Vikings / Norse often get short shrift on their influence, but here are a lot of words to show how they had their impact, too.
The Vikings Are Coming!
Old Norse Words in English. Without the Vikings, English would be missing some awesome words like berserk, ugly, muck, skull, knife, die, and cake!
The Myth of Free Enterprise (Car Dealership Edition)
Not that any political party is at all clean in these kind of sweetheart deal shenanigans, but any pol who praises free enterprise on the one hand and on the other restricts the market to favor the existing model and incumbents like this ought to turn in his or her membership in the Adam Smith Club.
Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
Imagine owning the most popular automaker in the United States. Now imagine a special interest group eliminating your ability to serve over 10 million Americans unless you did business with their unique cartel. That’s in essence what happened right before Labor Day weekend, when the Georgia Auto Dealer Association filed a petition with state officials seeking to cancel Tesla’s right to sell its cars in the state of Georgia.
The Best Superman Movie Moment
Ironically, it doesn't include Superman. I love everything about this, from the intoned "GUILTY" verdicts, to Brando's righteous contempt, to the simple majesty of it all (helped by the John Williams' faboo Krypton fanfare). And, of course, Terence Stamp as Zod is utterly kneel-worthy.
If it were shot today, it would all be CG rather than practical and video effects. But I don't think it would be any better.