So I can’t quite figure out how to get a good photo uploaded, but maybe later. In the meantime, here’s what’s in my garden:

Ohhh, jicama! Just thinking about it makes me homesick. I so, so wanted to grow some this year, but it apparently doesn’t do well here (Toronto). Wilda (this is wifeobeast, who refuses to set up a new burner) has never had it, and I was trying to explain to her how awesome it is, but to no avail.

Yes, but don’t let them dry out too too much, or they tend to crack when they get a good soaking (due to the plants taking up too much water too quickly). I learned that the hard way a few summers ago!

So wait - OTHER people need to boycott various things to save their souls, but WBC members don’t, because they’re God’s elect? But the WBC, out of the goodness of their hearts and the need to save the souls of the world, tell us about all the things WE need to avoid, but they don’t?

He wasn’t advocating violence. He was hoping that the older ones die off of old age/poor health, while the younger ones grow up more tolerant/saner than the previous generation. That seemed fairly obvious to most of the people who read this comment - but not, unfortunately, everyone who did.

In the books, Brianna starts in history “to please Frank” (quote Claire) and switches to engineering following his death.

I...think I love this?

You’re not wrong. I think I was reacting to StarvingArtist’s tone as much as the content of their post. For one thing, I think that Wiesel accomplished enough good in his lifetime that he deserves nuanced criticism rather than profane, black-and-white, knee-jerk condemnation. For another thing, I think that even if…

(Edited because I got my hockey heroes mixed up. It’s Gordie Howe who just passed, which means the crossword puzzle writers still have hope!)

Thank you for putting that respectfully.

Given all he had witnessed and survived, his support of Israel as a nation would have been damn near inevitable. When Israel became a country, it was only ten years, less in some cases, since almost every country on Earth had refused to take in Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. The German government under Hitler,…

Night was required reading in my ninth or tenth grade English class (I had the same teacher both years, so I don’t remember which year). I’d already done a lot of private reading about and research into the Holocaust by that time, so I wasn’t shocked by the subject matter. But the WAY he wrote about it was something…

I don’t even live in the US and that one sentence of RBG’s is so beautiful I want to cry. She is a national treasure and I hope she turns out to be immortal.

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I’m right there with you, except for the ‘girl can sing’ part. I tried to listen to her at the behest of a friend (“...what do you mean you’ve never heard Rihanna?! OMG she’s soooo great you’ll love her! Here, listen!”), and I just couldn’t deal with her voice. I was actually shocked at how terrible it was, because I…

As someone who has been writing and playing music for many years, I don’t really see what’s such a ‘trip’ about a performer having an occasional reaction to a song. Yes, we often play the same shit (especially on tour, when set lists can be fixed in advance and everyone wants to hear the singles), but we’re still…

Well, this is the RCMP we’re talking about. If they started taking crimes against women seriously, why, there’d be no Mounties left to enforce the laws!

Holy fuck. I wish this surprised me more, but your last line says it all:

So in his own mind he wasn’t a victim but it still resulted in a mistrial. For fuck’s sake.

But rape is a general, not a specific, intent crime.