October 2010
53 posts
What should I serve with fried catfish?
caterpillarcowboy:
I’m frying up catfish strips after dredging them in flour, cornmeal, and cajun seasoning. I always like to have a well-balanced meal, so what else should I serve with it?
Fried catfish is wonderful atop some creamy grits (with cheddar, if you have some good cheddar in hand) and asparagus. If it’s not asparagus season- try collards, string beans, broccoli or even just...
“In a New York Times/CBS News Poll last month, fewer than one in 10 respondents...”
– What if a president cut Americans’ income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed? (via southpol) The Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re not doing things that people would like—if they knew it. Their actual record over the past two years may not be perfect—but it’s pretty good. The problem...
“People underestimate how smart Senator Gillibrand is. I hosted a dinner for her...”
– Tina Brown, The Daily Beast Editor in Chief (via vogue)
Caught Gillibrand’s debate on Sunday and I officially have a girlcrush on her. She’s awesome!!
“In the face of such outrages, we could do a lot worse than remember Samuel...”
– From a great article on the current foreclosure documentation crisis at The Awl. I love this quote - too often Americans consider a failure of debt repayment to be a moral failing (holders of low credit scores have seen their share of sneers). However, the lender is culpable as well - a fact often...
“An honorable mention goes to the Duluth bear, in which a guard saw a bear...”
– 5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident (via evangotlib)
Apparently Tybee Island, Georgia, has a hydrogen bomb right off the shore (according to this article). That’s where my grandad lived for almost 30 years. Now I’m thinking of all the time I spent fishing right above a...
“There’s a lot of eyeball studies that show that people ignore banner ads when...”
– David Cho
(via soupsoup)
In my publishing classes, we learned about the “pass-around rate”, which is a metric associated with circulation for print media. Print publishers would use this number to tell advertisers that their total ad impressions were greater than the total...
“So we have mortgages based on lies that were not intendend for the purposes...”
– Evil as privation in the world of finance « An und für sich
If there is a better argument for capitalism not just as fundamentally amoral but fundamentally not a system at all…
(via champagnecandy)
I was frequently yelled at for being an out-of-it liberal during the boom - broker friends of...
"Banks can't handle forclosure load because they... →
“A lot of people sing in the bathtub. It sounds really good. There’s good...”
– Margaret Atwood (via azspot)
LOVE her.
“Only a few [gifted children] rose to fame and fortune, and no matter how...”
– Prodigy psychologist: The gifted child’s curse - opinion - 11 October 2010 - New Scientist (via mikehudack) Very, very interesting. I’ve heard that, when raising children, it’s better to tell them “you worked really hard on that! Good job!” rather than telling them...
Dating Science: Do Feminists Make for Better... →
i-am-the-lighthouse:
You know what’s a fun topic to bring up on a first date with a guy? Feminism. Once you get hard-lined religious and political beliefs out of the way (preferably in the car, on the way to date destination or maybe during the appetizer if you must wait that long), I highly recommend you toss out a couple of Betty Friedan or bell hooks quotes, and see if the gent picks up on...
“I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change...”
– Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism : The New Yorker (via brianoberkirch)
“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
The Bechdel Test: Movie List [aka Bechdel-Wallace,... →
robot-heart-politics:
Stuff on The Social Network reminded me of this.
I’ve been doing my own version of this!
http://bechdeltest.tumblr.com/
Haven’t updated in a few weeks, but has been fun to think about while working through my Netflix queue…
