It bums me out that conservatives have ruined both thumbs-up and the “OK” hand gestures.  What am I supposed to do, start throwing out peace signs? Oh shit, Nixon.  

I don’t know how I feel about that.

Hawkguy.

I got a tortilla-making kit for a gift recently and it changed my life. There’s a little trial-and-error to get the masa mixed right and to figure out how thick to make them, but after that it’s just like making pancakes.

I was happy to try this out last November.  It was quick and easy enough that I was able to start and complete the process when I was already on SFO’s wifi. I didn’t even need mobile data to download the app. In the end I was roughly 10th in line and slid through with zero issues.

No disagreement, but MoA’s amusement park (always Camp Snoopy to me!) has the one of the best log rides I’ve ever been on.  I’ve somehow never been on the roller coaster though.

I grew up in a town that takes high school wrestling very seriously. One of the tactics that doesn’t get talked about much, but is pretty common: squeezing testicles as hard as you can. I imagine a lot of guys wrestling a woman would wonder how to win without that specific avenue of torture, well beyond just worrying…

As someone who welcomes this new reality, how do we avoid the fate of the Tea Party? My memory of those years is them basically saying, “Not a rightward shift, but ALL THE WAY RIGHT M-F’ERS!”  Are the Dem-Socs and the New Wave going to peter out as well?

You laugh, but I guarantee he’s going to say something like, “We’ve never been that close. Y’know, it’s too bad, he and I could have been so close. So close.  But now, I guess he doesn’t love his father, huh?  Family is important to me. Family. Family...! Family.”

Schlieffen Plan says what?

Casey’s General Store, a convenience store chain in the midwest, has long had breakfast pizza. It’s my ideal gas station breakfast, and one of the many little things I miss about living back home.

I have been 6'2" for several decades, and at times I have been 250 lbs. or probably more.  I have not ever looked as pudgy as that guy.

What was it about the early-mid 90's? I was spending all my after-school job money on Magic cards (collectible!) and comics (foil covers!) during that time period. One flooded basement while I was at college ruined all that.

My dad’s “Mom isn’t cooking dinner tonight” recipe go-to was ‘goulash’. The recipe is one onion, lightly cooked, ground beef, one can stewed tomatoes, one bag of elbow macaroni. I was so confused as an adult when I went to a Hungarian restaurant, but also much happier.

Great news, she’s British!

I with they’d made the list based on breweries and not individual beers.  I had to laugh when I saw all the Bud varieties spelled out in a row.

I haven’t gotten my Dorf on for like a decade, and haven’t played Sims since the first one, but whoah if true.  

You can ski the downhill course from the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. It’s a blue, and at a leisurely pace it’s not hard at all; if it were divided into shorter parts it’d easily be two or three green runs. But then you imagine tucking and going all-out fast and it’s a hell of a slope. I can only imagine…

My brother is a holdover, with a case of silver bullets in his fridge 365 days a year. He makes fun of me for always drinking “something that no one has heard of, and that only you like.” Which is fair, I suppose.

I suppose I have zero backup if I were to say that they’re just the best. Conventional wisdom is all I have, since I’ve used two stand mixer brands in my entire life. In college I even used one to mix small batches of concrete in a laboratory, so I know they’re tough! The mixers I see on youtube and that one season of…