Speaking of fixed-earthers: [link]

I unfortunately learned about this site because a Georgia legislator from North Georgia (that's Deliverance country) has proposed a bill [link] to ban evolution because it's really a Jewish plot. Sigh.

Speaking of fixed-earthers: [link]

That is one ugly website.

That's what I was talking about! points upthread

Me, too! I wasn't just randomly talking chili v. pancakes. Not that I wouldn't ever do that; I just wasn't this time.

Call it Butter Sunday and you're in good with the Russians.

Mmmm. Butter. Way to go, Russians.

Protestants used skim milk; Catholics used whole.

Adorable! Kids' minds are awesome. Also, feel better.

those words are probably just an acknowledgement that cattle and pigs are gigantic animals, aren't they?

They split up names for chickens too, and they're not gigantic. Any time I got gizzards would be a bad thing, but I'm especially partial to the dark meat, thigh most of all.

The names are more prosaic, but I'm sure the names of pig cuts were prosaic to someone at some point in the pig eating history of the world.

Well, but like, chitlins and haggis are definitley poor people's food (they're made of stomach, intestine -- basically, they are proto-hotdogs). And chitlins are not called pig-intestines; they are called chitlins.

That's a good point, but I think I can handwave it through the specificity of the dish they refer to.

Also, between mutton and lamb, mutton is definitely poorer -- being both tougher and gamier in taste -- but which one is the same name as the critter being et?

But I think they didn't used to be - lamb as a common meat was a by product of expanding wool markets, something about culling the herds and adult sheep being more valuable, I forget the details. Back in the day, there weren't surplus lamb to get eaten and mutton was, as juliana's cite puts it better than me, eaten by Normans.

I unfortunately learned about this site because a Georgia legislator from North Georgia (that's Deliverance country) has proposed a bill [link] to ban evolution because it's really a Jewish plot. Sigh.

The head of the Texas House Appropriations Committee (which is about as powerful as you can be in the Texas House without being the Speaker) referred to that site in a press conference and later claimed that he had never looked at it and didn't realize that it was anti-Semitic.

I unfortunately learned about this site because a Georgia legislator from North Georgia (that's Deliverance country) has proposed a bill [link] to ban evolution because it's really a Jewish plot.

Curses, they're on to us!

Why do people even listen to these idiots?

Last night on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz claimed that teachers unions are “destroying a generation” and are “much more dangerous than al Qaeda.” He stated, “Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.” Sean Hannity agreed, noting, “They are ruining our school system.”

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“Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.”

If Jack Bauer is battling teacher's unions next season, I will stop watching.

If Jack Bauer is battling teacher's unions next season, I will stop watching.

WHO ARE YOU TEACHING FOR!!!??!??!?