Do it! Do it! Do it!

Bay leaves are for adding to your containers of grains to keep bugs out. I sprinkle them throughout my pantry for good measure. Had lots of bugs (especially moths) before I started doing this, now have very few. Surely that anecdote proves something.

Bay leaves can make the difference between a good soup and a great soup.

It should piss you off though, because those people that “Find” those loopholes are the people in power/lobbying the power putting them in there. Trump has already stated he wants to get rid of the tax minimums, and not replace it with anything, which would mean less federal money to pay for his big budget increases…

Several peeps on Twitter are making it their business to shout out positive novels about Jewish romances. Start following the #jhrom hashtag if you have an account!

It’s very much this idea that “friendship” (we’ll ignore the super troublesome power dynamics) redeems the ractists or Nazi. It’s the job of the Jewish or African American or LGBTQIA or character with a disability to redeem the bigot and just put our feelings and our hurts aside and just be grateful that those…

Oh good! I’m going to brush off my old manuscript, The Genocidal Hutu Millionaire’s Virgin Tutsi Secretary....

This is amazing, wtf were they thinking? Is it just pandering to the Christian romance imprint, which I understand (from my “historical Christian romance author” cousin) to be a fast-growing section of the industry?

Also Suite Francaise. Not technically a romance novel, but definitely a brilliant novel. Its original draft was literally drug across the landscape of WWII after the author died at Auschwitz before finishing it.

To be clear, when I talk about smoldering reactionary piles of rubble, I mean the controversy that was this year’s Hugo awards.

Poor Brooks. All alone. I haven’t been so moved by a man discovering he’s not the center of the universe since back in the 80s when Bob Greene discovered to his horror that having a baby meant that his wife wouldn’t automatically have dinner on the table when he arrived home every evening.

As always, great on paper and a cool idea.

IN reality? We tried that as a nation before, you would know of this as the Victorian Age.

Back when MOST people barely traveled farther than 10 miles from where they were born, their entire lives. Back when milk producers sold doctored "milk" using waste products leading to…

How come librarians are cool and libertines are fun, but libertarians are neither cool nor fun? Discuss.

A lot of people on this board are claiming that they've 'never had Palestinian food'. If you've had middle eastern food in the United States, there is a good chance it was made by Palestinians—a fairly large percentage of middle eastern restaurants are owned by Palestinians in my experience, probably because…

This isn't surprising. Israeli policy is to pretend that the Palestinians don't exist. Admitting the Palestinians have cuisine is a small act, but it's enough to disabuse people of the Tel Aviv approved narrative. It's harder for Israel to deny their human rights if they're viewed as human beings.

It's refreshing to see someone take a balanced stance on this. Neither side is perfect. Let's have some maqluba and coffee.

Let's just call it for what it is: they're pissed they can't eat at the restaurant for a good couple months because it would make them realize that Palestine has humanity and has a culture different from theirs, and they're not willing to acknowledge their value. So instead of dealing with their own issues, they're…