November 20, 2024
The paper very helpfully ran an article with recipes that you can make for last-minute emergencies on Thanksgiving.
I liked the stuffing recipe, but I didn’t think that cooking for 4-8 hours in a slow-cooker really counted as “last minute.”
November 16, 2024
Florida schools are going hog wild with book censorship.
One of the books pulled from the shelves was a graphic novel of George Orwell’s 1984—a book about censorship.
November 10, 2024
Sometimes I'll wander into a high-end store to look at their overpriced crap and see what the fuss is about. Even though I'm respectably dressed (but not dressed like I typically buy something there, I'll admit), I get followed by security.
I have friends who dress better, but are Black, so they get followed in stores, too. So I've come up with the ideal heist film:
Security focuses on the Black woman with impeccable credentials, while her blonde accomplice, who is wandering around unmolested, is robbing the place blind. The gang alternates with using the plainly-dressed woman, whom security will follow, while a better-dressed woman pulls the heist.
If I can't get a cameo in the movie, I want
Kathy Bates to play me.
November 10, 2024
The mayor of St. Louis and her son were among the people receiving that hateful text about slave masters being ready to pick them up and take them to the cotton fields.
The text is breathtaking in its cruelty. My initial reaction was disgust, followed by a strong desire to find a bunch of people and slap them silly. I’d like to think it’s “foreign bad actors”, but I’m not so sure, which is terribly sad.
My later reaction was to wonder what data the senders are mining in order to know whom to send the texts to. When we enter information “For Research Purposes Only”, is that the source of the information they’re using?
If it is for research, the research is probably going to take a hit soon. I’ll bet that many people will hit “Prefer not to say” on the Ethnicity question from now on.
November 8, 2024
Walmart took exception to a guy ripping them off by stealing goods and then returning them with receipts he’d printed himself,
So they banned him from their stores until the year 3,000.
