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An insightful–and intriguing–remark from one of Jonah’s correspondents:
I really think that Hillary really *is* the Democratic Nixon. I can’t think of another American politician she resembles more: paranoid, ambitious, steely determination combined with an oddly fragile, wounded ego, programmed, robotic, cold, calculating, almost devoid of humor or any sense of irony about the self.

Hire this guy on American Idol.

There are three major supermarket chains here (four, if you count Wal-Mart), Wegman’s, Weis, and Giant. Wegman’s does have a yuppie wow factor when you first encounter it, but that fades as you shop there. They have an odd inventory (they don’t carry things every store should carry), and more importantly, their meat department sucks […]

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Spicy Pork With Peanuts (Szechuan)
1 lb. pork (boneless ribs are good), diced
Marinade
1 T. each: dark soy sauce, cornstarch, oil
2 T. oil
4 dried chilis
3 quarter-sized ginger slices, minced
1/2 c. salted peanuts
Seasoning:
1 t. cornstarch
1 T. dry sherry
1 1/2 T. dark soy sauce
1 T. each: red or black Chinese vinegar, or red-wine vinegar, and sugar
1/4 t. salt
1 […]

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Are posted here–I’m not sure what was going on with the booth that was flying the Australian flag. That was a bit odd. Classic cars, folks in civil war dress and re-enactors, the Pennsylvania Military Museum, flags, memorials, and a couple of dogs, including one with an obscenely large tongue.

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God knows I’m as annoyed as anybody about barking moonbats on university campuses. And He also knows I’m even more annoyed that the moonbattiest of the wackjobs run the administrations, set up the so-called “speech codes” and “student rights documents” and “free speech zones” and “diversity policies.” I’m excusing none of these.
With all the exposure […]

Big MacFatwah!

How this law got on the books.

We have two, and both on the same thread:
GeorgeH said…
Women’s Studies Department?
We need a Men’s Studies Department where I can get tenure for writing tedious papers about the history of logo placement on NASCAR vehicles.
and
Joanne Jacobs said…
When a general conversation turns to uteri, I leave the room — or, at least, back away […]

Drew Barrymore should love these (hat tip to Devil’s Kitchen).

Get ready to cry, everybody, on the count of three.
One . . .
Two . . .
Three!
Boo-hoo! Poor baby!

Interview with Gene Simmons–it’s a must read.

“Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his lifefor his friends.”

Christian Golczynski receives his father’s flag
(hat tip to Maggie’s Farm)

Robert Stokely remembers his son
Jules Crittenden’s Memorial Day Roundup
US White House Commission on Remembrance

US Memorial Day

Well, in two minutes, that green curry will be done. Will post before going to Boalsburg tomorrow, and will have plenty of pictures Tuesday, as well as a report on Duffy’s Tavern.

BSG season three is now all burned to DVDs, and deleted from the hard drive. Lost is next–23 hours in 22 episodes–though I’m not going to start that until after Memorial Day. It’s possible that I’ll find at least the first half of the season less annoying now that I know that the Survivors do, […]

People missing half their brain function almost perfectly normally (emphasis on “almost”).

I had almost finished this and lost it, so I’m going to have to recreate this from memory. Here we go.
For me, ice cream is to Memorial Day as fireworks are to the Fourth of July. When we were kids, before the sun came up on Memorial Day, our parents rolled us out of bed […]

to the late, great Peggy Lee! Here’s Fever:

See the Gallery of Gore Fan SUVs–you owe it to yourself to see the rich privileged white guy with the Che Guevara man purse! And while you’re there, don’t miss the Berkeley Concourse of Hypocrisy!

I’ll have to try the ribs, but I have to say that Clem’s pulled pork isn’t very smoky, is bland, and fairly boring. Fat Jack’s pulled pork is much better–and it’s closer and on this side of the mountain.

After weeks of well-justified complaining about Lost, John Podhertz stated that the show had “unjumped the shark with the season finale. I will grant that after a whole season of veering off track, Lost returned (partly) to its roots with the two-hour finale, but unjumped the shark?
Well, maybe, but I’m reserving judgment. It was easily […]

The hard drive is so close to full–and has been for about a month–that every time I tell it to record something, it tells me three or four other things will be deleted early. I have been hurriedly watching a couple of things then deleting them to make room, but now that the season is […]

So we went over Skytop and found the luxury dog resort. Since we were so close (and on the west side of Skytop), I decided to try Clem’s. Clem’s has no walls; it’s one roof surrounded by tents, with no seating (though you can stand and eat off the barrels in the parking lot)–and even […]

Well, not really a road trip. We’re off to find Royal Pet Resort, which will be boarding our dogs when we’re in Charleston (SC) for Spoleto next month. Note the hot oil treatments and spa. Seriously.

Offered merely for interest. No, the figures aren’t adjusted for inflation or cost of living.

Federal spending (billions)

Federal debt (billions)

Inflation

Unemployment

Cost of a new home

Median household income

Cost of a gallon of gas

Cost of a gallon of milk

1967
$157.6
$340.4
2.80%
3.80%
$24,600
$7,143
$0.33
$1.03

1977
$409.2
$706.4
11%
7.70%
$54,200
$13,572
$0.62
$1.68

1987
$1,003.9
$2,346.1
3.60%
7%
$127,200
$26,061
$0.95
$2.28

1997
$1,635.3
$5,498.9
2.50%
5.40%
$176,200
$37,005
$1.23
$3.22

Data from flashback.com (go here and click on the links).
 

From the CCRKBA reciprocity guide:
These states honor all carry licenses issued in the United States:

Alaska
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont

These states honor no carry licenses issued by any state:

California
Connecticut
Hawaii
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Nevada
New York
Oregon
Rhode Island
Wisconsin

Even if you’re traveling to one of the states that recognizes your license, check the state laws on packing.org to be safe.

Blogging will be light Monday. The big–and I do mean big–Memorial Day celebration in Boalsburg calls (see here and here). I’ll take the camera, so there will be lots of pictures Tuesday (last year, Memorial Day weekend was the hottest part of the year; it’s supposed to be in the low 70s this year, thank […]

Thirty years ago today–that’s three decades ago to the day–Star Wars was released in the US.

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I may just have to boycott the Carnival of Education. Four times now, I have submitted an article and seen it disappear into the black hole. Twice when I inquired, I got no response from the […]

Kim du Toit penned a characteristically witty paean to cheese a couple of months ago, though he got a few things, well, not quite right:
One of the great culture shocks I encountered when I first moved to America is that most restaurants do not offer a cheese plate after the dessert course.
For most of the […]

I gave myself my last injection of this year-long treatment today, and I went to the range to celebrate. I didn’t do too well: The one side effect (from the pills, not the injections) that refused to go away was the vision thing. I have a few things to mail, so while I’m gone, enjoy […]

So what have I been saying all this time? How ideology rules the classroom.

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Since I have that white, raw milk, extra sharp, Vermont cheddar, and I have a craving for comfort food, I think we’ll do:
Macaroni and cheese
8 oz. uncooked macaroni (long macaroni, if you can find it)
1/2 lb. extra sharp cheddar, grated
1 c. milk
1 T. each: butter and flour
1 t. dry mustard
salt and pepper
1 slice bread, pinched […]

And I quote:
New Islamic Fatwa: Adult Men Can Breast-Feed From Female Stranger, Which Then Permits Them To Work Together Without The Suspicion of Sexual Shenanigans
Just go read it. I’m not sure I’ve wrapped my brain around it yet.