Up top, I’m not defending Loomer. I’m also not condemning Ilhan Omar.

Farrakhan is not the same as the NOI. That is, it is reasonable to stay affiliated with the NOI but condemn Farrakhan himself. It is also perfectly reasonable to not celebrate and praise him by name. Sarsour and Mallory have not done even the slightest thing to dissociate themselves from a man who trumpets some of the…

Maybe? But to get it to fit in the bag you might have to kind of roll it back up, which would seem to make the spatchcocking unnecessary in the first place. With the 14 lb bird we have for tomorrow, it will be done in about 2 hrs. with the oven bag. The 20lb bird my wife is going to make with the church youth group…

Oven bags! Cuts the roasting time waaaaaaay down and helps keep moisture in. Other than actually getting the bird into the bag in the first place, it’s super easy.

BDS is not a generic term for opposing Israeli policies. BDS is a specific name for a program introduced in 2005 to end Israel. It does not criticize Israeli policies, but the existence of Israel itself. The BDS movement is solely about opposition to Israel, not building capacity for and among the Palestinians. It…

I was 23 when I saw this movie, living in Austin for a brief period, a few months away from getting married, hanging out with grad school friends. We all walked out of the theater not quite sure what to say about it. One of us (I think it was me, but who remembers for sure?) said “I think I liked it. I think it was…

Grew up in the metro (Parkway West, for anyone who will ask), was back for a visit this summer, would move back in a heartbeat if it made sense.

Your focus here is very different than mine (and I might go so far as to say Alisa Bierria’s in this interview). Can bad things happen to CK/Ghomeshi/Hockenberry/et. al until they’re permitted back in the public eye? I mean, maybe, but no matter how many bad things happen to them, they’re still not centering their…

Atonement is not punishment. Punishment is something that is imposed by an outside authority. When my daughter lied to me about the website she was trying to set up an account for (the site itself was totally innocuous, if also total nonsense, it was the lying that was the problem), I punished her by taking her…

Get rid of single member congressional districts altogether and go with proportional representation. Parties run ranked slates of candidates statewide and get a proportion of the state’s seats based on their proportion of the vote. In Wisconsin in 2016, for instance, the seats would split 4/4 rather than 5/3 for the…

See, he says he as a virgin for a long time after this, but none of his calendar entries say “don’t have sex,” so I don’t believe him.

Don’t need the afternoon coffee break, this post is what’s getting me through the rest of the day. Tomorrow too, probably.

Once you make it to the end, Tyler says he is working on season 2, and now has a Patreon page up for support. As someone who isn’t the biggest country fan, I was surprised how interesting the show was for me. 

Cocaine and Rhinestones did three episodes on the song and the people behind it. Find those eps from season 1 here (and then go listen to the rest of S1, especially the ep on Loretta Lynn and The Pill):

Singular? Just the one? OK. Also, a Trump supporter supporting historically racialized violence against a POC for economic reasons? Color me...bored by the predictability of it.

I do the laundry in our house and every time a pair of pants goes in the wash, I check to make sure nothing is left in the pockets. And every time it is a pair of my wife or daughter’s pants, I am (still) surprised by the fake pocketry. Every single time.

Use Zotero. It integrates with your browser, stores screenshots of sites in addition to bibliographic info, lets you take notes, integrates with Word (and/or LibreOffice) to insert properly formatted citations for you. Also, it handles all other types of sources with manual entry, ISBN/DOI lookup, or scraping…

Can I safely assume each of these products is an affiliate link that nets GMG a referral? Because not a terrible way to make some scratch off of the revolution (R)

Cottage cheese whisked into scrambled eggs is fee-noh-meen-ahl. Also, with diced tomatoes and sliced avocado in some corn tortillas. Or mixed with a tin of sardines.

Shoulda looked in the greys before adding my own comment. Just glad I’m not the only one out here with some damn standards.