November 2011
33 posts
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
– Jack Twist
“What if hip hop artists began answering these questions on their content of...”
– The Stray in response to this
The easiest way for someone to determine what is racist imagery is to pay attention. Things like blackface or interpreting voodoo as dark and “bad” should be commonly understood as Racist, but there are people out there that unfortunately don’t understand that....
“I don’t want to waste my life loving you badly”
– Heartbeats
“Shoppers in the US kicked off their annual “Black Friday” orgy of consumerism...”
– Black Friday sales start with pepper spray stampede
“Four years ago, I’d started receiving group emails from the Tran Family,...”
– We’re pretty sure James West has the craziest Thanksgiving story of anyone on the MoJo masthead. You’ll want to watch this.
Happy Thanksgiving, people. (via motherjones)
nprfreshair:
From the archives: Jane Lynch
“SIR – I wonder why I, along with countless other Americans, bother to follow the...”
– An idea from Philadelphia. (via theeconomist)
“The most effective top tax bracket in this country [according to a new paper...”
– Tax the Rich! In Fact, Let’s Double Their Taxes (via ryking)
Harold McGee, Thanksgiving Tip
Harold McGee: Take the bird out ahead of time and let the legs warm up a little bit while you keep the breasts covered with ice packs. That way, you keep the breasts cold. The legs warm up by maybe 10, 20 degrees, and that way, when you put the bird in the oven, you've already built in a temperature differential. The breasts are going to end up, at a given time, less-cooked than the legs. And that's exactly what you want.
Terry Gross: Wow. That is going to look a little weird.
Harold McGee: It looks weird, yeah, to begin with, especially if you use an Ace bandage to hold the ice packs in place, because they're kind of slippery. And - so that's what I do. So, yeah, it does look a little peculiar. But what you care about is what the bird looks like when it comes out.
POLITICO: Obama issues his first commutation to... →
