Roasting veg is a really simple, easy and tasty way to eat them. Pan-roasting small brussel sprouts cut in half (small are more tender) with some olive oil and salt takes about five minutes and is delicious. Roasted broccoli and cauliflower is also good this way too. There’s a Food 52 ‘genius recipe’ for a…

I don’t like dogs, as I’ve been on the receiving end of a couple of maulings by dogs their stupid owners insisted were sweet little babies, but I have to agree that in my experience the owners are often more of a problem than the pet.

All of this!

I always suggest calling first.

That’s my experience too. I’m a Controller at a company that buys cars for its salespeople, so I’m always approving buying/selling transactions, and CarMax is great for the higher end imports. Good call, Tom.

Obama: A father watching the inauguration on tv turns to his young child and says, “See? Anyone can be elected President.”

Obama: Showed the world class, smarts, and how to be a father.

As a young newly out queer woman this had such a profound effect on myself and my friends. We had viewing parties for both the puppy episode and her Diane Saywer interview. My parents were havuing a very hard time with my sexuality and seeing Betty stand up for Ellen was soawesome.

I’m watching the not too distant future, next Sunday AD (mst3k) for tv, I’m reading Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (comic) and Lovecraft Country (novel), and I’m listening to a long backlog of the Star Wars Minute podcast and OMD’s Dazzle Ships album a lot.

I’m done with all the Brets and Beckys and their, “Well, actually ...,” explanations for what’s obvious to anyone who looks close. I’m done worrying about those folks, “being offended,” that I suggest they may be harboring racist attitudes they haven’t exhumed, of watching their eye-rolls and, “I know black people,”…

The perfect way to get perspective from our Earthbound bullshit.

If I did this on the highway to someone texting it’d be okay, right?

Nice! Switching off who has to do the most disliked chores is a good way to avoid resentment. The perfect situation is when one person’s disliked chores are the ones the other person likes! My boyfriend doesn’t like folding laundry and I don’t mind it (good excuse to watch Netflix), so he switches the clothes between…

Alternatively, you can take soil samples to a local agricultural extension and get a pretty thorough analysis for cheap, probably as cheap if not cheaper than a pair of cotton undies.

It sounds like the GOP has decided that Flynn will be their fall guy. They will dig up everything they can on Flynn then throw the book at him so they can claim they were doing a thorough investigation of the Russian ties. The story will be it was just that Flynn guy that was a bad apple and we punished him. No need…

this may be the real reason why NASA axed the project

If I were an astronaut on the moon with a minibike, like, zero work would have gotten done.