“Certainly,” it is a local issue when Sessions, presumably at Trump’s behest, has tried to dismantle DOJ’s role in policing the conduct of local police and sheriffs and elevating “local” law enforcement over civil rights.

My dad always used to buy organic PB and, predictably, no one ever used to really mix it in a way that would homogenize the entire jar. That invariably meant that the bottom of the jar was an unspreadable solid of sorts. That pretty much ended the enjoyment of PB for my lifetime.

There are reviews on welding fora that cover the Chinese imports... Having read some of them, they seem to convey the overall impression that they are OK for light use hobbyists, but aren’t machines constructed in a way that they are likely to last. None of them made me regret my decision to go blue for my welding…

There are reviews on welding fora that cover the Chinese imports... Having read some of them, they seem to convey…

I remembered watching this episode and thinking “hey, that’s what I do with grilled cheese” (or, actually more often, egg sandwiches with cheese). I just put a bunch of cheese in the pan, put a slice of bread on it, and then cook ‘til cheese is crispy. I don’t have a problem with “the flip,” since I use a nonstick…

Coffee is a strange one. I drank a *lot* of coffee starting back in college, since it helped me concentrate throughout those years and grad school. We are talking 3+ pots a day. As I became a professional, I became slightly obsessed with creating it—specialty/local roasters, high end espresso machine, dosing burr…

Every time I hit downtime while cooking, I do dishes. Partly it is because my wife does the dishes after dinner and I secretly don’t think she does a super job with the hand washing, but I appreciate that she is trying to help. I’m also anal-retentive about loading a dishwasher, but have managed to let that go in the…

I was forced to eat what was purported to be the world’s best hot dog in Reykjavik. It was, manifestly, not the best hot dog in the world. But they put crispy onions on hot dogs, which is quite nice. Not enough to overcome the use of mayonnaise, but nice.

Upon further review of the article, I’m also now confused by the “sedating the lobster by dipping it into saltwater” line—don’t lobsters live in salt water?

Wow. That was a bit more gruesome than I was thinking it was going to be.

Looking at your posts, your dominant contribution to the commentary seems to be shitting on Japan. You should probably re-examine your life.

Except that the Application Program T&Cs says that it ISN’T a contract for sale (para. 2 says it is “NOT AN OFFER OR CONTRACT FOR SALE”) and para. says that the program is just “to select individuals who will be invited to discuss a potential purchase.” So it seems hard to say that an application to participate in the…

I had to deliver papers, mow grass and shovel snow, so I hear ya.

My favorite example—http://linestanding.com/

After you have established some credit, treat any credit card like the old American Express card—pay it off every single month.

I measured my wall and the furniture, made some blocks in Powerpoint, and then sized the art to fit by importing thumbnails of the pictures. Low tech, but it works. And is particularly useful if you want a wall array of different sized prints, b/c you can then use it to figure out where all the hangers go...

This reminds me of an exercise I did in college with drawing.* The fundamental take-away was that people don’t draw what they see, they draw stylized versions of objects they have identified. So a trained artist will look at the vignette and start relating objects to each other the way it is actually seen—because they…

When you said the FCC has always been “much more lax” when it comes to content regulation of subscription media, it started me wondering... I don’t think the FCC actually has the statutory authority to reach indecent or profane content on non-broadcast channels. The FCC gets to indecency and profanity under Title 18,…

My taxes are horrifically complicated with multiple K-1s and a bunch of state filings. So I send everything to my accountant, who I love dearly, trust implicitly, and pay well.

I love pickled red onions w/tacos. I will typically boil a little sugar and rice vinegar with a bunch of whole black peppercorns and a cinnamon stick (I usually will put the peppercorns in a tied up piece of cheesecloth to avoid having to pick peppercorns out of my pickles). I then vacuum seal with the red onions,…

In the CI recipe, at least, the liquids from cooking—which have a lot of rendered pork fat in them—get reduced to a glaze that you toss the chunks in before broiling. So, yes, keeps meat from drying out (then again, we are talking about pork shoulder here, so it isn’t a huge issue anyway) and fatty glaze contributes…