Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I really should read my own blog.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

I was promised a recession.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

No one could have predicted…

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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  1. 1.

    schrodinger's cat

    Does anyone have a recipe for a pie crust that uses less than one stick of butter, i.e. healthier pie crust recipe that works.
    Thanks

  5. 5.

    kindness

    @schrodinger’s cat: My Mom used to use Crisco but I can’t stand the taste. Doubt it’s healthier than butter too. I imagine you could use an oil that won’t burn at high temps. Peanut oil flavor anyone?

  8. 8.

    smintheus

    Good to see this new PPP poll from Ohio, putting opposition to SB 5 back up at former levels (56-36 favor repeal).

    Opposition to it pretty much across the board except among conservatives, and in nearly every age group. Very clear that Kasich and SB 5 have lost the support of self-described moderates in a huge way. Unfortunately there’s a big gender gap, with men still supporting Kasich by a slight margin.

  9. 9.

    harlana

    whatever my come of the OWS movement, I can honestly say that I am proud of my people for the first time! I had begun to believe everybody was just brainwashed or brain-dead, like the slowly boiling a frog analogy. They were all just boiled frogs that never bothered to notice that they’d been boiled. I’m happy to be proven wrong.

  13. 13.

    A Mom Anon

    Ok,so my hard drive crashed on my laptop. Got a new HD and a new copy of Windows 7 installed,lost everything on the old drive. Fortunately,the only thing that could not be replaced,pictures,were saved because I actually took the time to back them up and also put them on flash drives.

    Now,I have no idea how to create recovery discs. The original manufacturers recovery dealie is gone,and I’m not sure how to go about making new discs. I have already made a system repair disc. When I first got this computer,I made 3 recovery discs and a drivers and applications disc,now I have no idea how to go about doing that again without the Gateway(yes,I know,it was a gift from the husband when my desktop died,it was all he could afford)recovery thing. Also,Gateway and Microsoft won’t help me unless I pay them a stupid amount of money,so that’s out of the question. Any suggestions oh techie gods of the interwebs?

  15. 15.

    lamh34

    So I got my timing belt replaced Tues on my Hyundai Tuscon. The timing belt alone was $633.25 which was about what I expected. Since they were already opening up the car, they also said I needed to replace my drive belt and spark plugs, so the car needed a tune-up and in the process they replaced the spark plugs and wires which totalled $330.00.

    All total, I paid $1082.36 and got my timing belt replaced, my drive belts replaced and a tune-up which included getting my spark plugs and wires replaced.

    I’m a novice, but this was way less than I put away from my budget for car repairs this week, so I thought I came out ok?

  16. 16.

    John Weiss

    @schrodinger’s cat: Healthy pie crust? You’re kidding.

    You can use lard (you heard me) in addition to or instead of butter. Lard is lower in the “bad” things that butter has in it and pie crust made with it is much flakier.

    I’ve tried making pie dough with other fats and they either fail entirely or mostly.

  17. 17.

    Josie

    @schrodinger’s cat: This is the one I learned in junior high home economics, more years ago than I care to admit. It is not low cal, but it is healthy. I use canola oil.

    One Crust Pie Dough

    1 1/4 cups flour
    1/2 tsp salt
    1/3 cup oil
    2 T cold water

    Mix flour, salt and oil with fork. Sprinkle water over all and mix. If too dry add 1-2 T more oil. Form into ball and flatten with hand. Roll out between two sheets of wax paper. Take off one piece of wax paper and place over pie plate. Pull off other piece of wax paper and press into pie plate. Either fill and bake as directed or prick with fork and bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

    Double for two crust pie.

  18. 18.

    lamh34

    Michelle O-bot signing in.

    Politics aside, I really do love this couple. They remind me of a lot of Black “marrieds” I know. Actually, scrap that, they remind me of a lot of non-Black “marrieds” I know too.
    PDA; Obamas flirt at military event

    And with all the articles of late about Marriage and the Black community, it warms my heart to see them.

    Lawrence O did a segment last night on how FLOTUS will be joining the campaign trail and how she will be a big asset. He went on to compare her to the other possible candidate spouses and not surprisingly coming up empty. Michelle O would clean their clocks.

    The Last Word: Michelle Obama Hits the Campaign Trail

  19. 19.

    A Mom Anon

    @Josie: I remember that recipe. To make things a little less fattening,try rolling out the crust as thin as is practical and instead of a full top crust use a cookie cutter and just cut out a few small shapes and put those on top of the pie. Between that and using healthier ingredients(lower sugar,etc) in the filling you can make a healthier pie,but it is a pie after all.

  20. 20.

    ruemara

    @schrodinger’s cat: This is from Gary Null’s New Vegetarian Cookbook and it’s fairly healthy.

    2/3 cup wheat germ
    2/3 cup whole wheat flour
    1/4 cup butter
    1/2 teaspoon vanilla
    1 1/2 tablespoons honey
    2/3 cup nut meal

    It’s not going to roll out, it’s a pat in place crust, like a graham.

  24. 24.

    Poopyman

    Hmmm. Apparently. all the comments on crusts have been replaced by Toko-Loko non-sequiturs. I must have an anti-pie filter installed.

  27. 27.

    joes527

    @lamh34: my rule of thumb:

    If I can get the car out of the shop for less than a grand, I have scored.

    It doesn’t matter what the car goes in for, by the time I add up all the incidentals, it is usually pushing $1000.

    Maybe my mechanic’s boat payment is $1000.

  28. 28.

    WereBear

    @lamh34: This pleases me. I don’t have to flip between O’Donnel and Olbermann now.

    As far as pie goes, butter has been rehabilitated, as has lard. Many people are not aware that Dr. Keys (his PhD was in oceanography) based his lipid hypotheses on the “7 Countries Study.” Except there were 22 countries and he threw out the other ones that did not support his thesis that fat was bad for you.

    It’s all been a big fat lie!

  29. 29.

    vtr

    Make the darn pie. Eat the pie. Wait a couple of months before doing it again. You’ll live a long time.

  33. 33.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @smintheus: I was amazed to see handcrafted, big “No on Issue 2” signs in a mostly rural, very red county Monday. I took that as a very encouraging sign.

  34. 34.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    @Bill E Pilgrim: I’ve been tempted to enter the Pajamas and mention that a cross is merely a swastika with the arms straightened out.

    Never mind, someone did it less than five posts in.

    Also must give some credit for the open door, no ban hammer policy over there:

    Oh man. I just noticed my desk lamp is bent at a 45-degree angle… wait, and… my couch is kitty-corner to the wall, it’s also at a 45-degree angle. Dear God, the laptop I’m typing this on, it’s screen is…

    OH NOES I’M A NAZI!

  35. 35.

    gbear

    Wingnuts gonna love this one:

    Some misguided wingnut (whoops, that’s a redunderancy there!) thought that the most critical entertainment items to mail all the way overseas to a bunch of U.S. troops stationed in Bumblefuck, Afghanistan were a couple boxes of crazed loofah-humper Bill O’Reilly’s book Pinheads and Patriots, presumably on the assumption that soldiers would enjoy masturbating to O’Reilly’s noxious screeds just as much as right-wing idiots. Wrong! Instead, the soldiers did the sensible thing and set them on fire.

  36. 36.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: The weirdest part (yes, I got out of the boat) is that it’s not actually rotated at an angle, I mean the pound sign itself prints that way. People wearing it are just imitating that. In one photo there the guy had straightened it out actually.

  38. 38.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @John Weiss: Lard and butter give you the best crusts, and run (really) from the hydrogenated fats like Crisco. Butter is actually much healthier than any of the “crust” oils, though lard really adds some flakiness.

  39. 39.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    @Bill E Pilgrim: On my keyboard (AAH! HITLER!) and my phone (AAH! HITLER!) I’d say they are at a 20 degree angle. The picture of the woman at the top has her armed raised, which would (if you’re sane) give you a pound sign at an angle. If you are not sane, any sort of armband/insignia on your sleeve is a sign of NAZI tendencies.

    One thing I wasn’t aware of pre-boat exiting was that Zombie builds his “case” by pointing to the 2 Xs on Charlie Chaplain’s uniform in The Great Dictator.

    I guess that means all those cartoons and comics where death is indicated by an X over the eye are subliminal NAZI messages.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    I’m very sad about those exotic animals in Zanesville.

    Re piecrusts: Julia Child lived to be a happy 90+ on butter and cream (in moderation).

    Enjoy the butter (or lard) and treat yourself to another walk or two.

  45. 45.

    joes527

    @WereBear: Yeah well fats may not be as bad as all that, but baked into a pie with flour and sugar… that isn’t going to be good for you* no matter what your dietary religion is.

    * I’m going to make an exception for pumpkin pie. There is no way something so tasty could be bad for you. And if I’m wrong about pumpkin pie, I DON’T WANT TO KNOW.

  46. 46.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @ruemara: I’m actually an all butter baker also, and ice my hands before handling the dough. (Not that I’m compulsive, mind you). I also use very cold vodka in place of water. Except for that time I grabbed the gin bottle.

  47. 47.

    ruemara

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    I spent 3 hours fussing with the dough for my homemade patties. mutherfack. It’s the one time I wished I had crisco or something, because the butter was either too hard to roll or too brittle to be stuffed with the patty filling. Then, like all things, I figured out how to work with my butter and whole wheat crust. Obviously, cussing the dough works best. Now, why the vodka? Apart from drinking getting one through the day.

  49. 49.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @ruemara: It’s supposed to cut down on gluten formation because it doesn’t have the same molecular structure as water (as we all knew). The actual recipe calls for subbing 1/2 of whatever water you add with vodka. It’s what I do all the time now. The accidental gin worked fine for a pumpkin pie but probably would not with a fruit filling. Of course I season my pumpkin filling with coriander as well as cardamom, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg, so what do I know?

  53. 53.

    Paul in KY

    @lamh34: Seems like a little much to replace the timing belt. Maybe they have to take the engine half way apart to put it on?

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