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Peanut butter works well with hot and spicy foods. Hot pepper jelly is a favourite of mine with PB. But also sliced green olives are tasty with it. Black (ripe) olives not so much.
A new flavour pairing this morning: dark roast peanut butter and Kikkoman wasabi sauce on toast. Delicious!
Pulled this chart from FB. Interesting to see how political voters perceive (trust) the media. And it explains in part why CONservative voters seem so ill informed and susceptible to believing hoaxes, disinformation, and conspiracies.
What blade(s) do you prefer in your safety razor? I have tried a lot of them (you can usually buy sampler packers on Amazon that provide a few of many different brands). I like Astra and Derby; Gillette Nacet, Wilkinson, and Shaverboy are okay. Here is a pic of the brands I currently have.
Just arrived: a Bambaw wooden-handled safety razor and a Charman, short and heavy razor. The Bambaw weighs in at 85g, around the standard for most of my razors. The Charman, however, is a hefty 139g, heaviest razor I own.
Brilliant parody: algae green labelled as Pantone's 2026 "colour of the year - American Flag Blue"
I would put Carney further right (he's a neoliberal); roughly where it shows the Democrats start; and even the furthest left of the US Democrats would not reach as far as the Greens in this spectrum.
There are *solutions* to the problem of extreme inequality...
Our mother dove has two chicks and they are now emerging from under her. She nested in a hanging geranium pot above our back deck and we can get quite close to photograph her. Her mate takes care of the chicks when she leaves to feed herself.
From FB: A look at the last 50 years shows that each time the Liberals were in power, the GDP increased. And each time the Conservatives were in power, the GDP decreased.
The Maple MAGA, rage-farming Trump mimic PoiLIEvre seems awfully quiet about our economy under Harper's disastrous regime...
I found the remaining Ngaio Marsh omnibuses as used copies at the local bookstore today... Now I have all 11 to read.
Made up a spreadsheet to keep track of which Ngaio Marsh books I have and have read, since it seems like I'm collecting them now...
Picked up a few books at the local library spring book sale today... most for me, some for my wife, some to share... might go back tomorrow to see what's left...
Every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year.
So Xitter has suspended my Bluesky account? You have to admire the chutzpah of these scammers... they have a new serving of codswallop with which to entertain us. But how did they get my email address? Was Bluesky hacked?
Pat Dennis: "I'm sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry."
I was sorting my movie collection and realized I did not have one of the Marx Brothers' films: their last one, Love Happy, which also starred a young Marilyn Monroe. Has anyone seen it? It's the only film of theirs I have not watched. Is it worth owning (aside from completion)?
The reason you don't see "Never forget 4/19" every year is because the Oklahoma City bombing was done by a conservative straight white Christian who was a US. citizen. When a terrorist attack can't be used to endlessly slaughter Muslims overseas, it has little propaganda value.
This morning I had toast with peanut butter and black olives. Since ripe olives are more mellow in flavour than green olives, they don't stand out as much in the profile. I think green olives work better with something like this.