It’s an interesting place. Sakha contains the world’s coldest biggish city, Yakutsk, the capital of Sakha.

I don’t trust this immediately after the pronunciation it gives for Salud.

Because the Glock is a proven design. Why try and redesign something that works so well?

It’s that the pistol is held sideways that increases the badassery!

Yepp, I would like to point out that the Kalmar union broke up 1521 (Sweden ceeded) so, unless this has been a very long running study, I would say that it is a Danish future-fighter evaluation which came to the same end result as the previous Norwegian evaluation...

“...so we’re all in agreement, I have 27 orders of shrimp fried rice, 3 orders of egg rolls, 5 crab ragoons, extra soy and sweet&sour sauce, right?

You can literally use almost anything to open a beer bottle as you create a fulcrum. I’ve used other beer bottles, drum sticks, a lighter, my cellphone (RIP Screen... I was drunk).

I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour the Baikonur Cosmodrome about a decade ago, and visited the facilities where most of the R-7 boosters are prepped, integrated, and launched. One of the tour guides commented that it was an A-1 red letter day for the downrange Kazakh farmers when one of the strap-on…

I live in the boonies so I buy cheese for the week or month. Longer when it comes to a large chunk of Parmesan which might last half a year.

Buckwheat makes fantastic pancakes and waffles!

If you want to find the motherlode of wheatless flour recipes, simply search for “Kosher for Passover” desserts.

Original article should have been titled “How to Identify Some Languages Using A Latin Alphabet”. It barely mentions Chinese and (one of the) Japanese, Arabic, or even Cyrillic. And nothing about all the other scripts used in Asia. Many of these are in more common use than some of the languages mentioned in the…

Technically, shaygotssplaining?

Jordan has been a very reliable western ally for a very long time. King Abdullah’s government is about as stable as it gets for the region, and they’re a downright progressive society compared to Saudi Arabia or even Kuwait. We were in absolutely zero danger of Jordan ‘easily turning on us’.

I’m a hawkish democrat and the lack of support for Jordan alienated me and convinced me this administration wasn't adequately dealing with the ISIS threat. Here's a government that is credible and wants to take responsibility for security in this part of the world and we couldn't be bothered. And yet we've helped far…