Right Wing Nation

Who thought this was a good idea? Greatest Generation Learns About Great Safe Sex:

As the teacher, Monique Binford, delved into an unexpurgated discussion covering issues from vaginal dryness to Viagra, one student’s cane clattered to the floor, another student adjusted his hearing aid and a third fidgeted in her orthopedic shoes. By the time Ms. Binford got around to describing a safe sexual act involving Saran Wrap, a woman shouted, “Enough, already!” and the room erupted in laughter.

Enough already, indeed.

I saw this over at Tim Blair’s blog yesterday and decided against posting about it, but it’s just so stupid, I have to. Warning: not work safe, but that’s not my fault!

Ready? Then click that more tag.

I’d call this a serious meat-lovers’ recipe! Oh, that Polish food! By the way, this is certainly not kosher.

Bergos (Hunters Stew)

4 lbs sauerkraut, rinsed
1 c. apple cider
1 lb smoked pork butt
1 lb spareribs
1/4 lb bacon
1 #2 1/2 can tomatoes
2 cups water
2 bay leaves
black pepper
salt
4 lbs heads of cabbage, shredded
1 lb pork loin chops or country-style pork ribs
1 lb smoked kielbasa, cut into chunks
1/2 c. onions (chopped)
16 oz. fresh mushrooms
2 T. flour

Brown pork chops and ribs in 2 T. oil in a large pot. Add the smoked pork butt with 1 c. water and simmer over low heat for an hour. Add the kraut and 1 c. of the cider. Add the cabbage, salt and pepper, cover, and simmer for 1 hour. Uncover (but don’t turn off the heat). In another pan, cook the bacon, remove and crumble the bacon, then add the bacon to the stew. Saute the onions and mushrooms until transparent, then add the flour and continue to cook until just golden brown. Add to the stew. Add the kielbasa and tomatoes and simmer for a half hour.

Here’s another one, which I am told is the traditional New Year’s Day meal in this part of the country. Not quite as extreme, but definitely a carnivore’s recipe — and simple.

Pork Roast with Kraut and Kielbasa

1 2-lb boneless pork loin roast
2 T. oil
salt and pepper to taste
4 pounds sauerkraut, rinsed
1 pound kielbasa, cut into chunks

Season roast with salt and pepper, then brown on all sides in oil. Remove. Put half the kraut in a slow cooker. Place the roast in the center, then the kielbasa chunks around it. Top with the other half of the kraut. Cover and cook for six hours.

Terrible!

BBC reports the incident began shortly after the Boeing 737-400 took off from the capital city of Nouakchott, bound for the northern city of Nouadhibou. A lone man, believed to be North African, brandished two pistols and demanded the plane be flown to France.

Instead, the plane’s flight crew initially attempted to land in Dakhla, in Western Sahara… but they were denied permission to do so by Moroccan authorities. So the crew headed to Gando, a Spanish military base in the Canary Islands.

A source close to the Mauritanian presidency told Reuters when the aircraft touched down, the pilot slammed on the brakes.

“When the pilot landed, he deliberately braked very hard,” the unnamed source said. “The man fell to the ground and was jumped on by passengers. He fired two bullets but there are no serious injuries.”

Vigilantes! Islamophobia! Hate crime!

Since yesterday, I’ve wondered if I was the only human being in the world who’d never heard of John Ondrasik or Five for Fighting. From the coverage in the dextrosphere, you’d think this person was some sort of major celebrity, or something.

Well, I’m not the only one — and I count myself in good company. John Hinderaker also has never heard of him.

Now, before you start the “YOU’VE never heard of John Whatshisname? Where have you been?” just stop. No, I do not much keep up on teen culture. I do not read teen magazines. I do not watch MTV (I predate the MTV generation, and am generally not entertained by music videos or see much reason to watch them).

John who again?

William Katz guts the AP’s chicken little journalism:

We’re informed in the first paragraph that last month was “by far the hottest January ever.”

We’re informed in the second paragraph that they’ve only been keeping records “since 1880.” That’s 127 years. Apparently, that’s “ever.”

The story lists the usual “global warming” horrors.

Then, toward the end, the writer casually informs us that January temperatures in the U.S., presumably the home of environmental original sin, were essentially normal, “ranking only the 49th warmest since 1895.”

Oh.

As Gilda Radner used to say: “Never mind.”

Anybody home in there?

“In the matter of the “gum game” — the yucky attempt in Montgomery County schools to impress upon teenagers the dangers of sexual promiscuity by asking them to share a piece of gum — all involved now appear to be appalled at themselves. “In hindsight, it’s gross and disgusting,” says Gail Tierney, founder and head of the Rockville Pregnancy Center, the evangelical, antiabortion clinic that taught abstinence classes to thousands of Montgomery schoolchildren until the gum hit the fan.”

In hindsight? Did you all leave your brains at Disneyland when you decided to do this?

Morons.

Comment or trackback, as long as you link to here.