When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Long weeks, more down than usual but perhaps the election has simply deserved that level of attention. Anxiety does makes the feeling about conspiracies and/or willful collaboration of the “shy ones” who will infect our lives (more) in the coming days, weeks, months, and years. All those micro-aggressive racists/sexists/classists who will feel more empowered by having the Orange Gasbag in office.
Don’t hold out much hope for overturning the election considering how badly it was messed up in 2000, but perhaps this time around it’s not so much Russians as it is copping to how virulent the degree of ethnic/racial alienation is especially as the election offered some difficult choices and so many different rationalization maps: bad candidates, character assassinations, media manipulations, sociopaths everywhere, and subjugation or perceived subjugation.
The election of 2016 is a test—in my view, the final test—of whether there is any virtù left in what used to be the core of the American nation. ...They may not deserve the fate that will befall them, but they will suffer it regardless.
#Flight93Election
BBC America is showing the recent Cumberbach version of Sherlock, so there’s that deductive need certainty fulfilled this weekend of Thanks.
Thanks for not confronting mortality enough on the one hand , on the other, regrets for not confronting morality enough.
An election should not become an existential threat but it has and will for so many simply because other, average people will act less than civil, less than humane, less caring to strangers simply because they will have made irrational and even hateful choices in everyday encounters. There will be generous and open actions and the increasing complexity of ascertaining means, motive, and opportunity.
Long national nightmare: The Sequel
The name of this cake made me think that it was peach flavored; impeachment frosting. However, it is all pistachio. I think the only thing that makes this tie into the Watergate Scandal is that pistachio flavor was apparently big in the 70’s. So there you have it. I still have a hard time reading impeachment without thinking it is a peach-flavored frosting, which by the way I don’t think would taste very good with pistachio.
I have a lot to comment on this cake. For one, pistachios; to find unsalted pistachios is very difficult, and when I DID find them, they were about $8 for 7 oz in the shell. I needed 7 unshelled unsalted pistachios so I had to buy two bags. That’s $16 for ONE ingredient, about $1.99 per ounce, shelled. Crazy. If I had ordered them on amazon I would’ve found not only unsalted but RAW and shelled pistachios which I think would have been better (and a lot cheaper at $0.84 per ounce), but I didn’t have time to wait for a shipped ingredient. Secondly, food processors; the flaw in my food processor is certainly not the fault of the recipe, but to make this cake it would have been best if I had had a very good quality food processor, and I don’t. The one I have came with my blender, which is also not great, and both have broken parts. Thirdly, caramelizing: the recipe says to caramelize some of the pistachios and gives very good directions and helpful tips. I have made caramel from this book at least twice with no problems at all and this time I went against my instincts and it was my downfall. When a recipe says “a very light amber color” in regards to making caramel, it means barely not white with a slight tinge of yellow. I waited too long to add the pistachios and it ended up candying them rather than caramelizing them. The sugar crystalized big time and it was a big mess.
also: The ImPEACHment – Vanilla Bean Whiskey + Peach Cocktail Recipe
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a criminal investigation after a video of a man urinating on a Kellogg’s factory assembly line surfaced online, the company announced.
The video, which was uploaded to worldstarhiphop.com on Friday, shows a man urinating on cereal as it comes off the assembly line. It then pans to a sign featuring the Kellogg’s logo.
An internal investigation by the food giant found that the video was recorded in 2014 at a factory in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner’s Handbook, claims that Mary Ann Cotton was the world’s most renowned “arsenic murderess.” Between 1865 and 1873 in the North of England, she murdered three of her four husbands, as well as a lover, to collect on their insurance policies. It’s believed that she could’ve killed up to 21 victims—including 11 of her 13 children—and was ultimately hanged for her crimes…
Homicide is homicide, of course, but poisoning has remained an especially intriguing method of murder for the general public and killers alike. “Cases of poisoning can be difficult to detect, and it can be even more difficult to apprehend a perpetrator,” explains Dr. Emily Glorney, a forensic psychologist and senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. “It is for this reason that poisoning might appeal to some people—particularly those motivated by a sense of excitement, possibly through evading detection and following the cases through media or personal experience.”
Amy Stewart—author of Wicked Plants, a book about the lethal side of nature—thinks that women’s choice of poison is related to their stereotypical place in the household. “Women are often in the role of preparing food, so they have the opportunity,” she notes. So much for the misogynistic notion that “women belong in the kitchen.”…
And then there’s the matter of mental predisposition. Clinical psychologist Joni Johnston attempted to shed some light on the subject in her article “A Psychological Profile of a Poisoner”: “Killing someone with poison, by its very nature, requires careful planning and subterfuge, so it comes as no surprise that poisoners tend to be cunning, sneaky, and creative.”
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