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The Other Mike
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As long as enough children were produced beforehand, evolution does not select against maladaptive behaviors as much as you think it does.

Looking through my grandmother’s “Fairmount Cookbook” put out by the Fairmount Temple Sisterhood in 1957, I’m struck by how easy many of the recipes are. After being accustomed to today’s browning, then deglazing; whipping then folding; brining, resting, patting dry; etc, the simplicity of throwing it all together is

Quite a gap from 1963 to 1982.

Is it OK to ask for a clean glass?

A real Roger Stone protégé would have done something sneakier, nastier, and less prosecutable. Like so many mentors, he ends up disappointed.

It is your local government that gets googly-eyed at large corporations and is indifferent to local businesses. Not really this guy’s fault. Also, Napster, then streaming services killed both types of businesses equally. The world changes and not every business can last 100 years.

I am so glad I don’t go to places that have either of those.

Why is covering a birthmark a good filter for shady tattoo artists?

Um, could you be more specific? All I can think of is hubris or oblivious and those are states of being, not a type of person.

Haha. That is a great analogy. I tried to listen to his podcast interviewing some specific people I was interested in, and it . . . wasn’t that good. He tries to display empathy with his voice mannerisms, but it felt off. I guess listening to Terry for too many years has spoiled me.

Whenever I see white asparagus, I think, “Bunniculla was here!”

What kind of car uses lug bolts instead of lug nuts?

Hmm. I do like to mention the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and Title IX when people are ragging on Nixon. Not that I have much liking for that scuzball, but that legislation he signed did have real substance and positive repercussions.

The Snowy Day

I would like to express my support and approval for the picture at the top of this article. With both hands.

A middle school teacher in my town got horribly disfigured a couple of years ago when kids were throwing big rocks off a highway bridge and it came through her windshield.

Does Candace know that she actually spoke the truth when she said, “Fake news is the reason that conservatives are winning right now, because they can’t stop lying. They’re pathological.”?

Scheißesser is a useful term, but it needs another syllable or two to capture how much he loves it.

If you want to listen to someone who actually did an actual controlled scientific study on this, listen to MPR’s Science Friday from last week. A Harvard professor played blind various types of music from various cultures to people from other cultures around the world.