The boar has remarkably big balls. Were they sliced and done up in an air fryer, they would feed a large family. OR The boar has remarkably big balls....
Some of them were--Andrew, Peter, James and John for example. One was a thief, one a bureaucrat in the Roman Internal Revenue Service, one a politico....
Absolutely. Beans, barley, and buckwheat, per @"baker" are cheap, of course, but monotonous. One has to really like kale, kohlrabi, cabbage, chia seed...
I've been in the plant where Hormel made Spam. It's not disgusting; it's just done on an industrial scale. Pork shoulder and ham are the meaty ingredi...
I missed the Beats (beatniks) the first time around. They were 'too far out' for my midwestern mind in the 1960s. I don't love their poetry, their nov...
Oil, or opium, or cocaine, or gold, or computer chips, cars, whatever. Just as the Middle Earth trilogy by Tolkien is NOT about WWII, I don't think Du...
I've read it several times. It's a long book, and a long story. Frank Herbert's Dune series is 5 titles; his son, Brian Herbert along with Kevin Ander...
I was unhappy reading the interchange among you, Streetlight, and Jamalrob, et al regarding "You don't need to read philosophy to be a philosopher". I...
What did he know, and when did he know it? A critical piece of my wrestling match with faith, was whether or not we live in a 'knowable world'. I deci...
Mature, well read, urbane, intelligent people are like that. Those features are more important than the particular field of study--just my opinion. Th...
shut up, sit still, think. Repeat. I find most philosophical writing to be pretty tedious, both in its content and its style. Most of it doesn't make ...
The hard-bitten Puritans, early exemplars of what would later be evangelical Christianity, believed that it was anything but simple. The 5 points of t...
We project human traits onto God and describe them as perfect and transcending or exceeding the human domain. The love that Herbert depicts is perfect...
Tannic acid (a vegetable made chemical, can be used to produce high quality leather, so chromium isn't necessary. Aside from dung, ancient tanners als...
It would appear that stale urine hasn't been recently used in the production of harris tweed. The Roman toga was generally made of wool, so there was ...
a) When you're going through hell, keep going. b) when you come to a fork in the road, take it. c) Even in long-term relationships, sometimes one reac...
I deeply regret withholding facts from you. The wool is merino lambswool. Spain, maybe. Poor lambs, not even close to puberty and they're getting shav...
LL Bean displays this Waterfowl Sweater, but I don't see how it would fit a duck or goose. And do geese need sweaters? https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic....
LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew near...
This little pig goes to heaven! Those other big bad pigs go to hell. NYT: surgeons attached a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a brain-dead h...
I heard the poem recited, first time, a few days ago while watching the final episode of the "Chief Inspector Morse" series (BBC). Morse and Sargent L...
Authorities are investigating how a farmer in the US state of Oregon was devoured by his pigs. Probably more "whether" than "how". Just guessing. Terr...
But we don't measure the heights to which civilization as soared by what they do at IHOP and Denny's, do we... https://64.media.tumblr.com/15abcff1f74...
How Clear, How Lovely Bright by A. E. Housman How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out ...
Come on, Alaska and Hawaii were imperial possessions of the US in 1951. True, everything was in monochrome back then. "Gray skies smiling at me; nothi...
How many regrets do I have? So many. Big ones, little ones. Sure, the scary things I thought I wanted to do but was either too stupid or too timid to ...
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