What a great thing that market does, having theme months like that!  I wish I had something like that to inspire me, and make ingredients available.

Okay, I'm going to Brazil whenever I get a chance, and just eat my way to happiness.

And here I thought no jail cell could hold you, @avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus .

After someone mentioned a gratin last week (I can't seem to find last week's TI using the search function on this here website), I made one that I had been craving for a while:

I'd say only adults should be allowed to eat Twinkies!

Gills were the least of Waterworld's problems.  I mean, it wasn't horrible, but it was just really uninspired and boring.  Anyway, a weirdly mutated gill-having man?  Doesn't bother me any more than extra-terrestrials or guys with retractable adamantium claws in my adventure movies.

If bugs without wings are permitted, then why not shrimp, lobsters, and crabs?  They're basically bugs of the sea.

But which fundies were pissed?

@avclub-7f538a2a6877984c16a663af38fb84d3:disqus ,my understanding is that it's all glucose — whether it's sucrose (table sugar) or fructose (sugar naturally found in all fruits and vegetables, such as corn), the body responds the same way, at least in terms of the insulin response.  What's really insidious about HFCS…

Is this a good thread to mention how bad-ass it is to be named Tamerlan?  I was disappointed that his brother wasn't named Jengiz, or Attila, or something similarly horseman-of-the-steppes-awesome.

Typical American: [looks dumbfounded, remains silent at mention of Kosovo and East Timor]

Clown [Prince]s [of Crime] to the left of me,
Dzhokhars to the right,
here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

@avclub-ee0fbae41b96c8e0ffbc0f8466290c5a:disqus : I'm reminded of George Carlin's bit about how you can pronounce your name however you want, regardless of how it's spelled.

When "cable news" meant "Cable News Network (CNN) and CNN Headline News," back in the 1980s, it actually served a purpose.  Keep in mind that CNN Headline News back then had a 30-minute block of short items that were the most important news stories of that day (including weather, sports, financial, and even a…

If she didn't coin it, she certainly popularized it.  It's up to the rest of us to refudiate it.

I'll second all the talk about NPR as a preferred news source; though their web presence leaves a little to be desired.  I still have the BBC as my home page, having made it so during the 2004 election, after I realized that American corporate news outlets were not making a true effort to be informative and…

I want to make absolutely clear that I was not watching because of any noble or elevated desire to be informed about it, in the sense of "being informed is the mark of a good citizen."  No, I was watching (after ignoring the story since Monday, because nothing was really happening Tuesday-Thursday evening) because…

It's pretty funny that a quick stroll through the interwebs would show that the Czech Republic is certainly not predominantly Protestant.  Here's the first non-Wikipedia source I found:

There were rumors of bombs at the State Department on that morning.

There's a really remarkable man named Bud Welch whose daughter was killed in the OKC bombing.  He has been an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, even for Timothy McVeigh.  He met McVeigh's father and sister, and said that meeting them changed the way he looked at the bombing that robbed him of his daughter. …