I want to be you.

“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” the Pharisees asked Jesus. And Jesus essentially told them, “Are you people stupid?”

Having someone else in the exam room if there is a gender discrepancy between patient and doctor is, I think, becoming close to a standard practice. Please pardon me if “gender discrepancy” isn’t the right phrase, I can’t keep up with the jargon anymore.

He’s not blond this time either.

The “fond” left in the pan after browning meat, which comes up when you deglaze, adds a ton of flavor and depth to sauces as well.

Don’t forget pot pies. I could get two 9” pot pies off a roast chicken. Roast chicken, eat it, toss entire remainder into crock pot with water, low for 24 (not kidding) hours. Pick off remaining meat, pour off stock, use some of stock and meat to make pot pies (I use store piecrust because I have never been able to…

A serious question about intersection analyses. I AM NOT DEFENDING WENDY WILLIAMS HERE. A transgender woman who chose to retain her cis-male genitalia could potentially choose, also, to remove the “transgender” appurtenances (clothing, wigs, makeup, behaviors) and regain institutional, systematized male privilege.…

Glad you’re here to sort everything out. My own privilege detector’s on the blink and the appropriation circuit is completely shot.

Catholic schools in my own neck of the woods were pluralities of white, Asian (both Far East and subcontinent) and Latino/Hispanic kids. There were fewer Middle Eastern (largely Coptic and other Christians fleeing Muslim countries) and Black students, but they were present in more than token quantities.

Ugh, ugh, ugh. This cup thing, with all the digging and the sloshing and the obsessive inspection and the smearing — it’s a little too close to watching a small child play with its feces for me.

Try moving to a tropical climate. Your nails grow like you’re a werewolf and it’s always the full moon. Hell on earth if you work with your hands and in three days your feet look like a goat’s.

Sheepus.

Here’s a quick glossary. There are alpha males (born tall, facially attractive, and wealthy). There are beta males (“nice guys” who work hard but never get any attention, and who are “friendzoned” — e.g., are nice guys but don’t get sex for most of their twenties). Alpha males get sex from “females,” who don’t have…

The ammosexuals on my feeds have gone quiet, as they usually do for about five hours after a mass shooting. Then the excited posts start about what guns were used, what’s the performance, etc.; graced with the usual guns don’t kill people/what about knives/cars/etc. parroting. The sad thing is, while most are…

What goes around comes around. L.L.Bean duck boots were the popular high school kids’ ever so special uniform in — get this — the late 70’s. If it was just about “dry and warm,” there wouldn’t be this little fashion frenzy now.

Patricia Crone’s well-respected decades of research is an excellent resource if you want a head start. Although I fear this professor is yet another MESA lapdog, it’ll be interesting to see if she does the usual modern hagiography (e.g., “the magical kumbayah Al-Andalus!”) or genuine work in the field.

With all due respect, the romanticized Caliphate you are speaking of was, in fact, established with breathtaking violence (“jihad”)and systematic oppression according to Sharia rules about conquered peoples (see, e.g., Pact of Omar). Culture-annihilating empires are not cool even if “brown” people pull them off.

Quebec squeak cheese curds are a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

There’s a record of one of the bosses saying that his cafe provided “good value for a sit-down meal.” I used to eat cereal over the sink, along with most everybody else I know.

“Rare cereals?” Are those like snow leopards, fey and cautious and lurking in remote, geographically challenging regions of the planet? Is there an “endangered breakfast cereals” list somewhere?