The high is only 64 today. :)

IT IS TERRIBLE. I feel like absolute shit. Thank god for the rain the past two days.

It isn't that glorious. Of course, I didn't have a winter. But the pollen scale in Tampa today is 10.2 on a 12 point scale. It is warm, but I feel fucking terrible.

I don't find baby North adorable at all. I think my feelings for her parents have just bled over too much.

When I was in third grade, my mom took me out of public school because she found a drawing in the back of my science textbook of a crudely drawn hand flipping the bird, and put me in a small Christian school in Montgomery, Alabama. That school was later closed because of allegations that the principal got a little too…

I can't believe I missed it!

Maybe you did this already, but you should do a piece on how this is the stupidest fucking trend ever. Even worse than bread bowls, because you never want the milk till after the fucking cookie.

Greens are properly cooked with ham hock. ;) Bacon is nuevo. But there are certain things that need hamhock or bacon (greens, beans) to be truly southern, and others that don't (cornbread, bloody mary).

The new upscale southern thing is really to put some form of pork in literally everything. As a meat eater it is even a little annoying, so I can imagine how frustrating it is as a vegetarian. I used to hate telling people that they couldn't really eat anything we had because it all had some form of pork. But when the…

Exactly. And I could see that happening. I am one of those people who loves just about everything and likes to ask people to order for me, though. :) But I usually preface it with that. And only in a restaurant where I'm looking for like the "signature" item or whatever.

So long as the last person is truly going to be fine with whatever you pick, I see nothing wrong with this one.

May as well replace "Atlanta" with "the South." I always felt bad for vegetarians in Charleston. It seems like a hip enough place to have good options, but everything is cooked with bacon. I'm a meat eater and I'm kind of sick of the bacon hype.

Yeah I ate a meal there where literally every dish we got had some variation of pork fat in it. I'm thin and athletic and I thought I was going to have a heart attack when I left.

It is especially true when the servers you are talking to KnoW (god, quash!) nothing about being vegetarian and just don't think about those things. I overheard this woman say she was muslim and doesn't eat pork, and then the server allowed her to order our red rice, which has sausage in it. Just didn't put two and…

Southern definitely. Biscuits were tradionally made with lard, but now most people use butter or (blech) vvegetable shortening. Also the lower americas. Traditionally, flour tortillas are made with lard, as is real cuban bread (the addition of lard is what makes cuban bread different than french, really).

I read that as like, is this bread made with lard or another animal fat. Because bread made with animal fat is awesome.

Aw yeah! She seems so happy with her daughter. And the daughter is super cute.

The first video: was that her daughter that popped up a few times? I found that part really endearing.

Woot! Tampa was one of the highest cities. Hooray!

You are right a million times here. So much about the law (and former laws) is incredibly frustrating; my employer should have nothing to do with my healthcare. Period.