Happy Thanksgiving, yesterday!? We had a spatchcocked turkey. I don't know why it isn't just a butterflied turkey. It was spatchcocked by a team effort with appropriate noises, concluding with the instruction to press down on the splayed out turkey, as though you were doing CPR. The appropriate noise for that seems to be a [...]
Words from Silent Cal on the Declaration of Independence. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone [...]
I loved reading The Boys in the Boat over the summer. Impossible doings, like helping build a dam by dangling over and down a cliff face, and using a hammer while you hanging there, without sending yourself into an out-and-back ride ending with a smash, are legendary, and a legend is something that you share, [...]
I went to college in a warm, flat, southern place, so I never gave much thought to a place like Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. It is perched above the Connecticut River, but owns part of a mountain. Not flat. I stumbled over the alumni website and read articles about the Biosphere project and climbing [...]
I found some poetry to share, written by Wallace Irwin. He was admired by Dr. Lambert of Tuesday's public health stories. The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark Most chivalrous fish of the oceanTo ladies forbearing and mild,Though his record be dark,Is the man-eating shark,Who will eat neither woman nor child. He dines upon seamen and [...]
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