You are doing it wrong.

I know that I should not laugh at the surfers who visit my blog.  I know I shouldn’t.  But I do.  Case in point:

The Thursday Gourmet: Beaten Biscuits

I know I haven’t been posting much.  I’m on vacation this week, and writing my blog doesn’t rank at the top of my vacation list.  I have, however, been cooking.  And trying new recipes.  And enjoying the (((Wife))).  And cooking!

I asked (((Wife))) what she wanted with a brined sirloin roast done on the barbecue.  She said she wanted biscuits.

Uh-oh.  Bisquits are trouble.  I am never gentle enough with the dough. I create hockey pucks.  And I’m not even Canadian.  Not good.

So I looked around in my cookbooks for biscuit recipes and found this one in Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Breads:

Beaten Biscuits

Ohio Law Would Take A Woman’s Decision Out of her Hands (and Put it in the Hands of a Rapist)

There seems to be a great deal of ammunition showing up on the internet this week regarding the FoFers*.  A law introduced in Ohio would take a women’s reproductive decision completely and totally out of her hands.

My Experience With Profiling

As I read different  posts regarding the incident between Harvard Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, I keep seeing references to profiling.  In the interest of fairness, I might as well tell you about my personal experience with profiling.

Gates, Crowley and Historical Baggage

I have resisted chiming in on the case of Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley.  Both PhillyChief and Chappie have their take on the unfortunate event.  I tried to comment, but quickly went from comment to essay.  Still, I resisted writing about it.  Until now.  Because now I think that I have something to say which, to my knowledge, has not yet been said.  Before I get into that, though, I need to explain, quickly, the surface causals in the incident:

If You’re Not 100% With Us, You Are Against Us.

The aptly nicknamed Foes of Fucking (FoF) (I though that PhillyChief coined that, but it may have been the Grumpy Lion) claim that their goal is to eliminate abortions.  The radical Christian and political right, of course, couch it in family terms:  what about the children?  We have to protect the children! 

BULLSHIT!

SEX!

By this time, most of you (at the very least, the six regular readers I have) should know that I am a naturalist.  Which means, of course, that I do not by into the Genesis version of the creation of the world, the universe, life, or the myriad species inhabiting our earth.  And I view evolution as an established fact (it is only called a theory because we do not yet (and probably will never) know all of the exact details regarding every event). 

One of the reasons that I found evolution rather boring in the science classes I took was a neglect of sex. 

How Many Would Vote for Palin?

This was sent by my best friend:

I don’t like the word “idiot,” but sometimes …

 IDIOT SIGHTING: 
We had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a ‘large’ enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, ‘Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.’ I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, ‘NO, it’s not.’ Four is larger than two…’        

We haven’t used Sears Repair since.

The Void Has Been Filled

Back at the end of March, I began building an MRC-Tamiya 1/35 Infantry Tank Mark II Matilda II.  I, unfortunately, found a moulding error in the styrene casting of the turret.  Rather than write to MRC-Tamiya, I decided to search on line for a way to ‘fill a void’ and, of course, found some very interesting results.  All of which led to this post.  I promised that, when said tank was completed, I would post a photo of it on my blog.  Here it is:

Skewering Palin with Truth!

This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow, has a fantastic Sarah Palin comic out right now: