So many naysayers! All I can say is I bought a 1903 house for 75K in 2003, and yeah, I had to keep upgrading things while I lived in it, and it’s certainly “nonstandard” -- but it was the only way I was getting into a house. I’m in a cool small town full of artists and ranchers and fishing guides where I have a real…

Why is William H. Macy entirely off the hook for this? They’re married. It was both of their money ...

My egg consumption is only limited by the increasing age of my 5 backyard hens. A good week --there’s eggs EVERYWHERE. A hot week like the last couple, and one of my girls starting to molt, and GET AWAY from my precious supply.

Before they made the Egg McMuffin available all day, the plain cheeseburger was my item of choice when stuck on a long drive with no food choices. Not too many calories, will keep you from the shakes, and reasonably tasty.

I spent my freshman year there in the 1980s. Not surprised to see that nothing much has changed. But in Allen!? Allen is the “artsy” dorm ... oy. I did not enjoy my year among the white racist sorority girls who said things like “my parents worked really hard so we could move to a nice suburb. Why should we have to…

Oh the French are mad about Native Americans, and come over in droves every year for Crow Fair. I just don’t think they really understand that they’re real people in the modern day, and that the tribes are not all the same.

It’s the usual mishmash. The dancer (who is really beautiful, and a great dancer) is Sioux. The Sioux are from the northern great plains. The ad is shot in Utah, home to the Utes, who are a different tribe altogether. The native woman they have trailing Depp is from Canada. And the tribal elder who “adopted” him, and…

Alton Brown’s steam-then-roast method also works fabulously well with Duck. He has a recipe from the early 2000s that’s the bomb.

One of the many reasons my grandmother told me, over and over and over again that “a woman always needs to have her own money.” And the abusive assholes my mother and 2 aunts married certainly reinforced that idea. I thought getting married would mean I’d be trapped in a house with kids, with no money, slowly drinking…

Yeah not surprised. Women I led canoe trips in the BWCA with in the late 80s were serially harrassed by a troop of Boy Scouts — starting with their leader.

If you hang wash on the line — use vinegar in the fabric softener slot in your machine (esp. if you have hard water like we do). Gets rid of the “crunchiness”.

Same here, plus we need the timer function. Who needs an alarm clock? 7am = coffee smell/sound + next door neighbor’s door slamming.

THe entire RV industry needs to die right now. If there’s any symbol of how our sheer fucking selfishness is burning up the planet, it’s RVs. I live north of Yellowstone, and it’s a steady stream of these gas guzzlers, driven by giant pasty people, dragging their SUVs behind them all so they don’t have to stay in a…

A nod to his own family history (his brother died in 1988, and the antidepressants were pretty worthless then. Also I can see not wanting to debate such a painful topic with that charlatan on national TV), and perhaps a discussion about how stigmatizing meds this way leads to (some verifiable # of deaths per year)…

And his brother killed himself by jumping off a balcony (in front of their mom), so he knows a little something about it.

I have a neice who, at 15, looked 25 — hell, at 13 she looked 25. I’ve lost such respect for men I’ve known for years, watching the way they are with her. It’s disgusting. SHE’S A CHILD. There’s still SUCH a notion among men as a group that teenagers are actually interested in them, that teenagers are fair game, that…

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again and again as long as she’s running. This woman is evil. Her new age nonsense is fine until it’s the middle of the AIDs crisis, an there are no treatments yet, and she’s spouting “The Secret” bullshit to people like my college friend Michael, who despite being an actual…

Even here in Tiny Town Montana, I have a handfull of grocery stores -- our local Town and Country for 85%, the Co-op over in Bozeman on occasion, Albertsons if I have to (or need pharmacy or cleaning supplies), Costco for olive oil, local wine store run by my friend for wine and fancy cheese, local butcher for good…

Oh my. Red Lobster, where my BFF and I ate (it was either that or the Olive Garden, choices were limited in Billings MT in 2003) after her neonatal checkups for the Most Terrifying Pregnancy Ever. Ninety minute drive each way to the hospital that had a NICU, with only Red Lobster to provide sustenance. We’re both…

You can also chop up the rhubarb and freeze in ziploc bags (if you have room in the freezer ...).