This is an older post but still relevant for the summer. So, some helpful tips on better grilling.
Also from Lifehacker, a list of affordable steak cuts that come in handy during our recession grilling time.
Also, a Memorial Day grilling entry from NPR that is enjoyable and has some good recipes.
Enjoy!
This is a nice story on how shedding some religious and cultural taboos is saving lives in Iraq.
Oliver explains the modern GOP:
If you’ve ever taken the time to watch congressional activity on C-SPAN, particularly in the House, you see this a lot. There are people, Democrats, talking about important things of serious significance. I don’t even necessarily agree with these people all the time, but there’s no disputing the fact that they’re talking about an issue, and then a conservative Republican will get his or her turn at the microphone and begin a conversation about how Barack Obama has enlisted a legion of robots to drain us of our blood. They say these things, and then thanks to the rules of decorum in congress the other side can’t bust out laughing or scream “what the fuck”. They just have to go back to what they were discussing. On earth.
Hey, what do ya know? We’ve got a president who actually gives a shit on how names and places are pronounced so that we can show at least a basic level of respect and deference to people and states around the world.
You think that may pay dividends somehow in the way we are viewed around the world? Gee, I wonder.
Bill Maher likes to joke and make snide comments, but he’s pretty dead on with this assessment of the “birthers”. This meme keeps spreading and while it is currently poisoning the GOP, there are enough of those assholes to screw up the rest of the country.
In a recent poll, 58% of these Republican cretins either doubt or are not sure that our president is an American citizen.
So wait a minute, the party that ran a candidate that LITERALLY was not born in the United States (though was on a military base) now contests the birthplace of a guy born in Hawaii? Oh yeah, I forgot, they are racist pricks who think he was born in Kenya.
The ranks of GOP politicians who refuse to speak out against this utter crap grows daily, with Missouri’s Roy Blount amongst those “casting doubt”.
So basically, these guys either believe this crap or are hedging their bets to keep votes without looking like utter traitors. Either way, THESE are the jerks who ran under the banner “Country First” in the last election? If they truly believed in their nation, they’d fight these lies, call the traitors who believe them the seditious bastards they are, and then they should probably quit for giving aid and comfort to the enemies of America.
Not that I have any strong feelings about this or anything.
ThinkProgress points out the hypocrisy of GOP governors, Piyush Jindal in this case, of making an ass out of themselves of refusing federal stimulus money, then quietly accepting it, THEN taking credit for the money as if it magically appeared instead of getting on their knees and thanking the United States for creating jobs in their states seeing as their incompetent and/or broke selves couldn’t do it.
Here’s a pretty honest report on the state of our nation’s education, or, rather, LACK of education when it comes to science.
Don’t cast all the blame on our underfunded schools. Also give some jeers to the anti-science Talibangelicals trying to destroy public education and to the media who someone ALWAYS gets science wrong.
So basically, fund the schools, take the Luddites out to the woodshed and deal with them, and promote science instead of just making stuff up.
Easy, no?
So….if nationalized health care is as bad as the Rethugs want us to believe, why do the Canadians revere the architect of their health care system as one of The Greatest Canadians?
Just saying.
More on the neocon nitwits trying to destroy education in Texas.