An elegant and fancy salad but easy, easy, easy to make ( Read more... )

You can use pretty much whatever vegetables in here you care for; adjust the cooking process to make sure they end up the right consistency ( Read more... )

I would like to revamp my metrodemontreal.com website, improving it over my current l33t 1999-era Web-1.0 handwritten HTML skills. Ideally I'd like to pay someone to write me a nice structure that would allow me to easily create the new site with my old text, figure out a better way to approach the photographs (such as the kind where you click on ( Read more... )

Another amusing thing, this one real:

Gossip: Who was that woman snuggling up to Jack Layton? In Copenhagen for the climate change summit, NDP leader Jack Layton was accompanied by his wife, Olivia Chow, who is also a Toronto NDP MP. An extremely political couple, Mr. Layton said in a recent interview that it was great that his wife was able to be ( Read more... )

"I wear the word 'dyke' like I would wear a pair of combat boots. It gives me strength and snarly toughness when I need it; it gives me swagger when I feel silly or afraid. I also wear the word 'boi' like a soft grey hoodie, framing my round cheeks and small hands. Sometimes I wear 'boy,' a worn pair of baggy blue jeans. I wear 'queer' as a ( Read more... )

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Note: I have intentionally excluded a voice like that of a slightly crabby 40-ish female oddly similar to that of a certain Betazoid aristocrat, on the grounds of inherent personableness.

Cross-referenced to the "this would be funny if the subject weren't so appalling" and "honey, you aren't even trying, are you?" files: The Prime Minister's Office, in advance of a Commonwealth meeting where the subject of Uganda's appalling proposed bill on homosexuality* was to be discussed, issued the following statement:

"If adopted, a bill ( Read more... )

comment:

The resentful “women are the controlling gatekeepers” to sex thing comes from a really bizarre view of sexuality that young guys literally beat into each other. “Sex”, or what they call by that name, isn’t mutual pleasure between two people, but one type of dominance token guys are supposed to acquire to show off to each other. If you ( Read more... )

I am what many people consider somewhat overweight. I am 6'2" and weigh 200 pounds. I have weighed 200 pounds for ten years. During that ten-year time, I was: a poor undergraduate eating crap food; a very poor undergraduate literally doing dinner at Dairy Queen where I worked because I had to go directly from school to work and stay there until 11 ( Read more... )

What bullshit essentially misrepresents is neither the state of affairs to which it refers nor the beliefs of the speaker concerning that state of affairs. Those are what lies misrepresent, by virtue of being false. [...] The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What ( Read more... )