I'm roasting mushrooms, eggplant, and garlic for a veggie lasagna that I'm taking to my mom's this weekend. Third layer will be frozen spinach sauteed with the garlic that I roasted tonight as well. I'll make and bake them on Saturday and just reheat them on Sunday.

Oh that sounds terrific.

I also love the image of Emmett and his lemon tree!

I also love the image of Emmett and his lemon tree!

Mostly I just look forward to the day when I get bags of lemons from both javachik and Emmett.

Scola's link--Iron Eyes Cody! And the spot was narrated by William Conrad, I recognized the voice.

I'm sorry about the job, msbelle. Clearly they are poopyheads not to recognize their desperate need of your talents. The job for you will turn up.

Aw, Emmett protecting his tree is a wonderful image.

Tonight I made bean burritos for dinner. I'm pretty sure that counts as preparing dinner, but it doesn't actually rise to the level of cooking.

I totally hear you -- I think of most of what I do as "making food," not cooking, although people who Don't Cook would disagree.

Jebus. Walker doubles down:

Education leaders in Wisconsin said Wednesday that the forthcoming two-year state budget Gov. Scott Walker will propose next week will lead to cuts that could spell the end of Milwaukee Public Schools as we know it and changes University of Wisconsin leaders say could split the flagship Madison campus off the university system.

He's also made noise about refusing Federal Title 1 funds, which are targeted specifically at programs for low-income children. What the everloving fuck.

people who Don't Cook would disagree

When I Don't Cook, I Don't Cook with flair and verve and a lot of real Not Cooking.

When I do cook, there are dishes. Given how long I'd been going between empties of the dishwasher, I'm revisiting my decision.

He's also made noise about refusing Federal Title 1 funds, which are targeted specifically at programs for low-income children. What the everloving fuck.

Oh, man, that guy is a raging asshole.

ita, a groupon for you: [link]

Kat, you see through me to my dirty little (big) secrets. I'm a bit ashamed that's going to be my first groupon, but I've been putting off a trip to the laundromat for the longest time, and just doing maintenance washing. Of darks. About how much is 25lbs of laundry, I wonder? I'm shit at that sort of estimation.

GOP Lawmaker Mike Beard Claims God Will Provide Unlimited Natural Resources

Mike Beard, a Republican state representative from Minnesota, recently argued that coal mining should resume in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, in part because he believes God has created an earth that will provide unlimited natural resources.

"God is not capricious. He's given us a creation that is dynamically stable," Beard told MinnPost. "We are not going to run out of anything."

Beard is currently in the midst of drafting legislation that would overturn Minnesota's moratorium on coal-fired power plants, an effort that he backs due to his religious belief that God will provide limitless resources while ensuring that humans don't destroy the planet trying to get them.

Drawing on his family's childhood property in Pennsylvania, Beard explained to MinnPost his belief that while resource extraction might cause temporary agitation to the landscape, the effects wouldn't be longterm.

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"It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the earth]," Beard told MinnPost, before saying that even devastating nuclear events shouldn't cast doubt on his theory that the earth can always be repaired.

I think hubris does not mean what he thinks it means.