Ahh, my home state. Always an embarrassment when it makes the headlines. I left 31 years ago and haven’t had one regret about it.

Yea!  I finally made it to the 1%!  I can’t wait to reap the benefits!

I went to an all boys high school in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, and aside from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” I don’t think we read any women writers. In college most of the women writers were in my Southern Lit class. Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor. I didn’t take any Women’s Lit classes, but there…

This seems an appropriate place for this

I was wondering where to put Moby Dick on that list.

And this is the song to listen to while you’re drinking your malted.

The five second rule only applies to soup/stew.  ;)

You need to check out the FBI stats on missing persons. The year they showed had ~800,000 people added to the missing persons database and ~800,030 removed from the database, so the net change was actually positive that year.

On the bow and musket question, it’s worth noting that bows take years to master, but musketry can be learned in weeks. Source - Thomas Esper, The Replacement of the Longbow by Firearms in the English Army, Technology and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1965), pp. 382-393

I enjoyed Age of Wonders II: The Wizard’s Throne soundtrack. Nice mellow strategy game background music.

How about Filipino fried pork belly? Lechon Kawali.

If you have some good juice oranges, then orange sorbet is the way to go.  It can get pretty sweet, so consider less sugar.

Yes, I think all their chicken is grilled.

@ Dennis,

I watched the Mod Squad as a kid, but I was a bit too young to remember much about it. But his performance in Purple Rain was wonderful.

Sorbet.

I made orange sorbet last summer with some excellent juice oranges. So very good.

And here I thought women were already having to register for the draft. I must have misread something 10 or so years ago, and thought it was a go.

Paragon. Because prepping for a boss fight and then talking Saren into killing himself is the BEST!