Sarmalutsa (a.k.a. sarmale) is a Romanian version of potstickers I guess. Cabbage rolls with pork and beef stewed in chorba sauce. PITA to make. Fortunately there’s a Romanian takeout on every corner in most major cities (not really, there’s one in Bellevue, WA and maybe a few in LA). *sigh*

The problem with mole outside of TX and San Diego is that if you order it while gringo they’ll grill you on whether you understand that what you just ordered is chocolate-based. “you sure... seguro... lo entiendes?”

What if I put the steak in plastic wrap first? I’m going with bison burger in cling wrap next time I’m in a bar fight. Although nobody gets in physical bar fights anymore. They’re too busy debating the esoterica of whether the double IPA is double enough. 

Why tubeless tires on the mountain bikes? Unless you have an unlimited supply of Stans or Slime you’d be better off with tubes. The sealants will dry up and need to be replaced every year or so whereas you could keep tubes for decades and they’re patchable. I don’t know. Seems like you’ve thought this through. Just…

I worked for the government and had a government credit card. I traveled all the time. I had HR pay the per diem and other travel reimbursements straight to the credit card. I instantly had a credit where the credit card company owed me money not the other way around. My boss told me it was insane to let the credit…

I know people that worked fairly high up in the Clinton Administration. To this day they are stuck in 1992. It’s like some pathetic athlete from your high school that still wants to relive the touchdown that won the state championship.

Confrims my suspicion that his rallies are like going to a strip club. He prances around saying stupid shit to get his base riled up then they stuff money in his pockets. Money he doesn’t declare as campaign contributions and hoards in his desk in the Oval Office probably.

Put your money in Suez or Veolia Environmente. French companies bent on taking over the worlds’ water supplies. If you want a basket of water stocks try CFWAX- a water ETF. 

Nestle et al are dedicated to making sure our drinking water infrastructure fails so we doubt the quality of municipal water and turn to their plastic bottles.

And Carter enabled the rise of Republican Jesus (Reagan) which is where it all went wrong in the USA. 

The figure should be more like 8 in 16. I suspect this because I was a prosecutor in a rural western state in the 1980s (yes I realize that confession relegates me to perma-grey here). There weren’t enough prosecutors to go around so I got randomly assigned to try some (prevalent) step-dad teenager abuse case out in…

BP just sold off all its North Slope assets. There’s excessive production capacity all over the Slope including the Kuparik fields. Although the Saudis just shut down production due to the Houthis attacking oil facilities with drones. So who knows what can happen to increase demand from Alaska. 

More importantly, can he even stay awake for dinner?

The Texas helicopter companies like helibacon.com which offer hog shooting hunts can now migrate north when its too hot in the summer and set up shop in Montana. Really... People pay a premium to shoot hogs with assault rifles out of helicopters. I’m told it’s barely making a dent in the feral hog population. 

Show me the DNA test!

One less Koch conspiring with the idiot governor of Alaska to ruin America’s last frontier is a good thing. 

Hopefully in 2020 a Democrat takes over the White House (without a firefight in the rose garden to evict Trump) and makes Inslee head of the EPA.

There’s a whole branch of forensic science devoted to the various stages of maggots that infest a deceased body when left outside. There’s a facility in Knoxville, TN called the “Body Farm” run by the FBI and dedicated to letting corpses rot outside even underground so they can test their maggot theories. Unclear…

25 4 45 (I need a bumper sticker)

This deserves way more stars.