I've been on a pancake kick lately, but I was getting kind of bored with the Protein Power Lifeplan version, which are basically just sour cream, eggs, soy protein powder, and olive oil. They're fine for a weekday morning, but I have a weekend breakfast reputation to maintain, despite my dietary quirks--and until I find my relatively inexpensive ( Read more... )

Maybe everyone's read this by now, but if you haven't, Andrew Sullivan's piece comparing interrogation techniques in Nazi Germany to interrogation techniques used and still endorsed by the members of the former Bush administration pays off on a careful read, or better than most blogosphere stuff does, anyway. Apparently, we were willing to do ( Read more... )

As it is both immoral and impractical to nearly drown people, and history will almost certainly regard it (and its associated 'techniques') in the same way that it now regards Auschwitz, the gulags, the Inquisition, and the very similar methods employed by the Japanese in their Asian land wars, I won't have anything to do, here or elsewhere, with ( Read more... )

Read all of the Amazon reviews of Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29.

And then tell me you don't love the Internet.

There is no God, but if there was one, I'd hope to him that DABA (Dating a Banker Anonymous) Girls is a hoax. Women who date married men already belong in some suitably low circle of hell, but women who date married men, and then bitch about it when their married men can't afford to give them $1000 bottles of wine and daily pedicures anymore--well ( Read more... )

Just saw the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man. I'd say this about summarizes it:

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The parody trailer displays a certain brilliance, but will make more sense if you actually endure the hour and 37 minutes it takes to figure out that the movie, appearances to the contrary, wasn't actually intended as a comedy.

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If I ever write a murder mystery, the victim is going to be a queue jumper. Line cutter. Whatever you call it, it's the same despicable character. There are you are, having waited patiently in an abnormally long Safeway line to buy some pickles and Fresca, when the wind blows in this piece of trash--too much gold, a fake tan, and a black puffy coat ( Read more... )

idomeneus  and I considering an impromptu New Year's jaunt down to Los Angeles due, primarily, to the happy conjunction of my Getty craving and his Catalina Island craving. Angelenos: what does your city offer by way of fireworks and other New Year's revelries?

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Please consider writing to your representatives and Senators Feinstein and Boxer about the Mormon Church's actions in passing Proposition 8. This site has a good summary of some of the issues at hand as regards tax exempt status for religious organizations, and feel free to reproduce as much of the text of my letter below to save time.

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