I worked with a cook who had previously cooked in the military. He told me his boss would occasionally throw an entire egg into the powered eggs so people would think they were using real eggs. Don’t know if that true or not, but moral of the story: don’t trust the typos.

Well I’ve been living in Texas for almost 20 years. Mostly Houston and now DFW. Originally, I’m from California and I lived there for 12 years. I’m going back to college so I can afford to leave Texas.

Yes, the major cities are more liberal, especially Houston. But confederate flags abound! It’s only been getting worse since 2020. It’s a shame because Houston is the most culturally diverse place I’ve ever been. But be that as it may, this is the South. This is the home of racists.

Because he incited a coup and called for the heads of elected officials.

God damn! I concur. That was difficult to decipher.

I’ve worked as cook and sous chef for about 13 years now. Most I ever made was 55k a year and at that time I was working ~75 hours a week. If we extrapolate to 100 hours… Carry the one… Yup! Still a far cry from the paycheck of a CEO.

If prisons are going to get nutritious food, then school children need to get it first.

He’s just pinin’ for the feeyords

I think the best course of action is helping Mexico with the cartel problem so people stop wanting or even needing to cross the border. Grain of salt though, the leaders of Mexico are in the pockets of the cartels.

As far as “film” goes, Drive is also my favorite for the very same reasons. Even the simple placement of bright colors like the Tide bottles at the convenience store…

But that elevator scene takes the cake for me. Prior to that point things were kind of slow and melancholy. I think Irene’s reaction to the brutality of the Driver mirrors that of the audience. I love this movie.

Ouch? Who gives a fuck about the hormonal opinions of naive teenagers?

It was a moral imperative for much of the North. Lincoln only barely scraped out the Republican nomination. His main opponent was William Seward who was a “radical” abolitionist. Had Seward won the nomination, there may have been some fracturing of the newly formed Republican party. So while there was indeed a portion of the population who felt the complete abolition of slavery was too far, a huge chunk agreed with Seward. In particular, his own wife, Francis Seward. She abhorred slavery and I urge everyone to read her writings upon the subject.

Lincoln believed that the Founding Fathers intended for slavery to eventually fade away to extinction. But for this to happen, there could be no further spread of slavery into new states. The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act both steered slavery down a different path of proliferation.

Lincoln’s policy during the Republican nomination and general election was to follow the path laid out by the Constitution. Meaning: honor the fugitive slave law and to make no infringements upon the South’s right to slavery. However, Lincoln made it very clear that slavery will remain only where it currently was in place. There would be no further spreading of slavery into newly adopted states.

Most of my information comes from the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a Lincoln biography.

It’s my hypothesis that this generation that is most tech savvy. This was a time when you had to know how to use a computer in order to … use a computer. Today’s generation has grown up with the app operating systems. They don’t need to know the first thing about file manager or even ctrl-alt-del.

My single-sentence comment seems to have caused me to be misunderstood.

I’m wondering, why is the “clear and present danger” doctrine NOT being used to shut these racists down? Because from my perspective, racist hate speech is clearly dangerous.

I thought “clear and present danger” took care of this sort of thing.

My wife is born and raised in Texas. She thinks churches on every corner is normal. Now she is a travelling surgical tech and falling in love with upstate NY. It’s not my beloved Pacific Northwest, but I will gladly move anywhere away from these loco church people.

He doesn’t do a whole lot of walking