There's no good excuse for dry meatloaf -- or bad meatloaf, for that matter. equal quantity of 20%-fat ground beef and ground pork say, 1.5 lbs total ...
Actually, the Catalonia-Spain conflict resides on level 1197 of my things-to-worry-about queue, just above the future of Nursultan Nazarbayev, deposed...
What I was thinking of when I typed 'hypocritical' was countries terming the Russian action in Ukraine as "immoral". Countries like the USA, for insta...
Calling the invasion of Ukraine an atrocious breach of etiquette and appallingly bad mannered was an attempt at sarcasm which, apparently, failed. Pre...
Why is self-interest hypocritical? Am I being hypocritical if I look after my own interests first? Are you? States do not have ethics as much as they ...
Context is important here. There is a significant difference between a barroom and a classroom, but even so... incivility in a barroom might earn a pu...
How about Harpoon. Weez still git to roll the R, per Universeness, and the second syllable could be pronouns as a flat southern "poon" (slack-jawed u ...
Oh yes, they will be picketing outside the elementary school. But so will Feminist Fascists For Matriarchy, because Dick and Jane teaches frankly patr...
Your story has been the experience of millions of Americans whose lives have been made miserable by capitalism and the policies of both conservatives ...
The above post counts as a short story (prompted by Athena's mention of the dick and Jane readers published by Scott Foresman) and the use of Spot On ...
"Oh, look, Dick," Jane said. "Athena just had a major theoretical breakthrough." "No, Jane," Dick said. "Athena had that breakthrough before she found...
"Preserved in aspic" deserves more use here. Peak aspic preservation occurred just 26 years ago, according to Google Ngram. The expression first appea...
Or one can buy a new bung hole plug. $160. Sees like a lot. https://www.justrite.com/media/catalog/product/_/0/_0_8_08102_1.jpg?width=240&height=300&s...
Seems redundant and contradictory; psychopathology is, by definition, warped. Shattered psychopathology sounds like a cure. And then, imaginations hav...
Even after reading a score of WWII histories, it's difficult to grasp the enormity of it. This map displays the appalling cost paid by Eastern Europe ...
The magnum mysterium is why these sorts of ads are presented to me in the first place. All sorts of mechanical things -- brackets, shafts, grinders, b...
Who doesn't need a quality bung hole wrench? As advertised in the New York Times https://64.media.tumblr.com/3322dfc3abe14cd9f0cb75e9d4446239/dd8a0f1c...
If you haven't read it, you might like The Nine Nations of North America. That's one; other devolutions have been proposed, and they have some merit. ...
Maybe so. But in a way, you are more pessimistic than I am, I think our best bet is to put together effective, democratic, humane governments. Well go...
"Effective, democratic, humane government" does not guarantee peace, even if it is the best government possible. However, if countries agree to not de...
War is just diplomacy, negotiation, value clarification, psychotherapy, and so forth carried out by more aggressive means. Joking, of course. The "ide...
Why would anyone have a period when they didn't eat jam? How long did the sans jam period last? There's a shade of gray called 'existential despair'. ...
Truth at last! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evzd5nGXAAArR3y?format=jpg&name=900x900 It's your arteries that are in peril. Bonne Maman apricot jam, thou...
One question: "Could humanity be united under one government?" Another question: "Should humanity be united under one government?" I vote NO in both c...
I've never heard a good explanation of the Trinity. At any rate, Jesus didn't have anything to do with it. The idea of the triune God was cooked up, s...
Way too many of us leftists suffer from sexual diseases we caught while laying in bed with capitalists. Gross Domestic Gonorrhea, for instance. The fu...
You need to get out more. People need places where they can exhibit their normal human irrationality, and yell at each other, or just yell. The "still...
William should have finished Harry off when he had him on the ground, A quick sword thrust. You have Harry, we have Kevin and a cabal of right-wing sa...
It actually is a combination pig/primate. The anthropologists and geneticists were too embarrassed to publish this, but about 5 million years ago, pig...
This is an extremely useful list. Very evocative, Also: Male chauvinist pig Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while Bleed like a stuck pig Aut...
Another familiar one. Crass indeed. American piggery has a better PR company: "Pork: the other white meat". (Not the other meat white people like; the...
A good bar should be reasonably dim. Darkness conceals the low standard of maintenance and sanitation to which a quality dive bar should adhere. Low l...
Louis XIII Armanac (nothing to do with Louis XIV) can be had for $3,999. Add $100 if you want the fancy bottle in a fancy box. Might not be a good dea...
Contemporary usage would be "slut", from 14th century English. "Pig" has pejorative sexual connotations and applies to both men and women in different...
The person experiencing the pain decides. We don't have a way of measuring pain in an objective way. I have quite a bit of pain from arthritis in vari...
Sweeping definitions often lead to problems. This formulation leads to defining all sorts of good things -- dentistry, running a marathon, dieting to ...
How about "In a pig's eye"? used to express strong disagreement or to suggest something cannot happen. "Are you going to vote for Trump?" "In a pig's ...
One of the pig-related etymology entires referenced Sanskrit and several intervening Indo-European languages. Domesticated pigs have moved with us acr...
So many words for piggery. Swine = Old English, Dutch Hog = Celtic, Old English Pig = Old English from picbred, pig bread, meaning acorn Pork = Latin ...
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