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shadowkat1. Behold the Simple Comfort of a Butter Baked Onion
Traditionally Vidalia onions are favored for this preparation, but any mild or sweet onion will do. The peeled, slightly cored allium is stuffed with butter and your favorite bouillon, then baked until it is falling-apart soft. There’s no charring, no caramelizing—just a humble, retrained allium, gently cooked in the laziest compound butter. To make it, you will need:
1 onion
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon butter
1 bouillon cube or 1 teaspoon of Better Than Bouillon (any flavor, but the roasted beef one will bring major French onion soup vibes)
The only problem is it takes 60-70 minutes to cook...which, hmmm.
2. She's Hunted History's Worst Arms Dealers Now She's Taking on Rhino Poachers
(Actually, I doubt she's doing it at the moment, just as I doubt anyone is hunting Rhinos right now. )
Kathi Lynn Austin pulls the trigger of a pistol at a shooting range outside Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. It’s a fall afternoon in 2015, and she’s wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a scarf — her standard uniform when out in the field.
3. Forget Sourdough = How to Make 10 of the World's Easiest Breads
4. Plagues Follow Bad Leadership in Ancient Greek Tales
And humans are too stupid to figure this out, much to Nature's considerable delight.
[To be fair this is about plagues in ancient greek tales...so not sure it's about virus from hell or not. I admittedly didn't read it - I just like the title.)
5. The Secret Life of Plants - How they memorize, communicate, problem solve and socialise
This is validating - in a way.
Vegetarian: I won't eat sentient life forms.
Me: So what exactly is it that you have against plants?
It's also why I don't have them - I kill plants. I'm too absent-minded. It's truly pathetic.
6. How the Best Way to Follow Your Dreams is By Keeping Your Day Job
Although, I seriously doubt people are considering leaving theirs at the moment. If anything they probably are desperate to get it back.
7. The Diary of an Awkward Teenage Balloon Artist (Yes, I thought the same thing - hence the posting.)
8. The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
9. The Dark History Behind 2019's Best Selling Novel
[Hmmm...kind of reminds me of Anne Perry. Anyhow, I didn't love Where the Crawdad's Sing, but this does make it more interesting.]
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is the sort of book that you’ve either never heard of or have already read for your book club. The bestselling hardcover title of 2019, Crawdads has sold more than 1 million copies—jaw-dropping for any first novel, much less one by an author who just turned 70, living on a remote homestead in northern Idaho. Publishers Weekly has called its success the “feel-good publishing story of the year.” (Spoilers for the novel follow throughout this piece.) If you’re one of the people who’ve read the book, you probably know a little of Owens’ romantic backstory, like the huge boost her debut got when Reese Witherspoon, the Oprah of our time, selected it for her book club. Or the fact that while Crawdads is Owens’ first novel, it’s not her first book. And then there’s the 22 years she spent in Africa with her husband, Mark, living close to the land and working in wildlife conservation. Delia and Mark wrote about those experiences in three memoirs. But what most of Crawdads’ fans don’t know is that Delia and Mark Owens have been advised never to return to one of the African nations where they once lived and worked, Zambia, because they are wanted for questioning in a murder that took place there decades ago. That murder, whose victim remains unidentified, was filmed and broadcast on national television in the U.S.
To be clear, Delia Owens herself is not suspected of involvement in the murder of a poacher filmed by an ABC camera crew in 1995, while the news program Turning Point was producing a segment on the Owenses’ conservation work in Zambia. But her stepson, Christopher, and her husband have been implicated by some witnesses. This murky incident from Delia’s past is hardly a secret. In fact, in 2010 it was the subject of “The Hunted,” an 18,000-word story written by Jeffrey Goldberg and published in the New Yorker. You can find a link to that story, along with a one-line reference to a “controversial killing of a poacher in Zambia,” in Owens’ Wikipedia entry. However, the Wikipedia entry for Owens comes as only the fourth result when you Google her name, and a lazy or unseasoned internet user might stop reading after browsing the official bios that outrank it. Apparently many such users are members of the press. In numerous interviews, Owens giggles about how her publishers “keep sending me champagne” or recounts how she was inspired by her observations of animals that “live in very strong female social groups.” (No such group appears in Where the Crawdads Sing.) But when it comes to the remarkable fact that, in the company of a charismatic but volcanic man, she apparently lived through a modern-day version of Heart of Darkness? Not a peep.
10. Are Trigger Warnings Really Helpful? (Don't know but they are used a lot in fanfic and Amazon/Good Reads reviews).
11. The Dark Triad vs. the Light Triad in Human Personality
Basically Ted Bundy vs. Anne Frank or ....more modern example? Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren.
12. How to Make Your Own Oat Milk
Actually making Almond Milk is insanely easy. Just saying.
Traditionally Vidalia onions are favored for this preparation, but any mild or sweet onion will do. The peeled, slightly cored allium is stuffed with butter and your favorite bouillon, then baked until it is falling-apart soft. There’s no charring, no caramelizing—just a humble, retrained allium, gently cooked in the laziest compound butter. To make it, you will need:
1 onion
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon butter
1 bouillon cube or 1 teaspoon of Better Than Bouillon (any flavor, but the roasted beef one will bring major French onion soup vibes)
The only problem is it takes 60-70 minutes to cook...which, hmmm.
2. She's Hunted History's Worst Arms Dealers Now She's Taking on Rhino Poachers
(Actually, I doubt she's doing it at the moment, just as I doubt anyone is hunting Rhinos right now. )
Kathi Lynn Austin pulls the trigger of a pistol at a shooting range outside Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. It’s a fall afternoon in 2015, and she’s wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a scarf — her standard uniform when out in the field.
3. Forget Sourdough = How to Make 10 of the World's Easiest Breads
4. Plagues Follow Bad Leadership in Ancient Greek Tales
And humans are too stupid to figure this out, much to Nature's considerable delight.
[To be fair this is about plagues in ancient greek tales...so not sure it's about virus from hell or not. I admittedly didn't read it - I just like the title.)
5. The Secret Life of Plants - How they memorize, communicate, problem solve and socialise
This is validating - in a way.
Vegetarian: I won't eat sentient life forms.
Me: So what exactly is it that you have against plants?
It's also why I don't have them - I kill plants. I'm too absent-minded. It's truly pathetic.
6. How the Best Way to Follow Your Dreams is By Keeping Your Day Job
Although, I seriously doubt people are considering leaving theirs at the moment. If anything they probably are desperate to get it back.
7. The Diary of an Awkward Teenage Balloon Artist (Yes, I thought the same thing - hence the posting.)
8. The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
9. The Dark History Behind 2019's Best Selling Novel
[Hmmm...kind of reminds me of Anne Perry. Anyhow, I didn't love Where the Crawdad's Sing, but this does make it more interesting.]
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is the sort of book that you’ve either never heard of or have already read for your book club. The bestselling hardcover title of 2019, Crawdads has sold more than 1 million copies—jaw-dropping for any first novel, much less one by an author who just turned 70, living on a remote homestead in northern Idaho. Publishers Weekly has called its success the “feel-good publishing story of the year.” (Spoilers for the novel follow throughout this piece.) If you’re one of the people who’ve read the book, you probably know a little of Owens’ romantic backstory, like the huge boost her debut got when Reese Witherspoon, the Oprah of our time, selected it for her book club. Or the fact that while Crawdads is Owens’ first novel, it’s not her first book. And then there’s the 22 years she spent in Africa with her husband, Mark, living close to the land and working in wildlife conservation. Delia and Mark wrote about those experiences in three memoirs. But what most of Crawdads’ fans don’t know is that Delia and Mark Owens have been advised never to return to one of the African nations where they once lived and worked, Zambia, because they are wanted for questioning in a murder that took place there decades ago. That murder, whose victim remains unidentified, was filmed and broadcast on national television in the U.S.
To be clear, Delia Owens herself is not suspected of involvement in the murder of a poacher filmed by an ABC camera crew in 1995, while the news program Turning Point was producing a segment on the Owenses’ conservation work in Zambia. But her stepson, Christopher, and her husband have been implicated by some witnesses. This murky incident from Delia’s past is hardly a secret. In fact, in 2010 it was the subject of “The Hunted,” an 18,000-word story written by Jeffrey Goldberg and published in the New Yorker. You can find a link to that story, along with a one-line reference to a “controversial killing of a poacher in Zambia,” in Owens’ Wikipedia entry. However, the Wikipedia entry for Owens comes as only the fourth result when you Google her name, and a lazy or unseasoned internet user might stop reading after browsing the official bios that outrank it. Apparently many such users are members of the press. In numerous interviews, Owens giggles about how her publishers “keep sending me champagne” or recounts how she was inspired by her observations of animals that “live in very strong female social groups.” (No such group appears in Where the Crawdads Sing.) But when it comes to the remarkable fact that, in the company of a charismatic but volcanic man, she apparently lived through a modern-day version of Heart of Darkness? Not a peep.
10. Are Trigger Warnings Really Helpful? (Don't know but they are used a lot in fanfic and Amazon/Good Reads reviews).
11. The Dark Triad vs. the Light Triad in Human Personality
Basically Ted Bundy vs. Anne Frank or ....more modern example? Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren.
12. How to Make Your Own Oat Milk
Actually making Almond Milk is insanely easy. Just saying.
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Date: 2020-04-17 03:40 pm (UTC)Clearly, given that she could get no one to call Portugal from the anti-poaching group, and stop that shipment, the corruption includes the people ostensibly trying to stop the poaching. These efforts are deliberate.
Fascinating story. Though I would argue that the real way to stop the poaching is to stop the buyers.
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Date: 2020-04-17 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-18 08:25 am (UTC)Vegetarians also cause the death of fewer plants than meat eaters.
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Date: 2020-04-18 01:21 pm (UTC)I don't really have a choice - I have to eat meat, since I am allergic to various plant proteins or resistant to them. A lot of vegetarians are ignorant of the fact that not everyone is capable of being a vegetarian.
I don't eat a lot of it - it's varied, and mostly fish and poultry. Mainly because I can't digest that much anyhow.
What you see above is my snarky humor on display, it tends to go over a lot of folks heads. ;-)
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Date: 2020-04-19 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-19 02:48 pm (UTC)Many crops such as corn and wheat have caused as much environmental devastation as raising cattle. My grandfather was a cattle man, so I do know something about it. Which is very different from the trophy hunters - who hunt animals and kill them for no food or any need, just for sport.
My niece is a vegetarian - she was kind of born a vegetarian. She doesn't like meat or chicken, and refuses to eat animals for moral reasons as well.
But she's not judgemental of those who do, nor does she tell others what to do. Her mother has similar dietary restrictions to mine, and her father can't digest beans, like myself, so she's learned from an early age to be mindful of others dietary restrictions and needs, and be compassionate.
The Great Dust Bowl in the US was caused by the over-farming of the land, mainly the planting of corn, wheat, and other crops on land that was not meant to be farmed in this manner. Farmers were eventually paid to stop - in order to protect the land.
And the rain forests in the Amazon are being destroyed for farming of food and cattle. People have replaced forests with palm plants for palm oil manufacturing.