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Friday, December 26. 2014

Friday morning links

Wood stove chimney design


Passenger tossed after flipping out over staff’s ‘Merry Christmas’


A little touchy? Well, holiday season can do that to people.


Anti-Feminists Baffle Feminists - Woman Against Feminism vs. feminists: Who's actually confused?


Who owns Chicken Tikka Masala?


I feel triggered by the odor of cultural appropriation


My atheist Christmas: How I overcame my personal struggle with the holiday - The holiday and its religious trappings used to offend me deeply. Here's how I overcame my feelings of oppression


Good grief. He thinks Christmas is all about him


A cool museum: inside Manhattan's Tenement Museum shed light on Lower East Side's notorious turn-of-the-century slum


What is a "slum"? It's a starting place where people would rather live in than the hopeless crappy place they came from


Thank SCOTUS for Credential Inflation


If Single Payer Can't Work in Vermont...


Tribal Raid In Peru May Be Related To Hotcoldwetdry


Teenager Shot In Missouri: So What?


"Stories of choice"


Imagine No Religion - The French press refuses to see a clear case of Islamic terrorism.


Al-Qaida Calls for Lone Wolf Attacks Against US Airliners

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Re: Tribal raid

Now that we know that climate change is responsible for everything from global warming to cooling and attacks from uncontacted tribes in Peru. It's all beginning to make sense. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, et al are all due to climate change! These are not legal issues, these are weather issues!

We have only begun to plumb the depths of catastrophic effects of climate change. No doubt it's the cause of the rise in the number of recipients of food stamps, disability, social security, the sorry state of our schools, the price of vodka in Russia, the price of oil everywhere. We've finally found the Social Unified Field Theory!
#1 mudbug on 2014-12-26 10:18 (Reply)
You left out the price of post holes in China. Which price is now just outrageous!
#1.1 Sam L. on 2014-12-26 11:28 (Reply)
It's not the price of post-hole diggers. Those are still made by political prisoners. It's the disgusting rise in wages for the people digging the post holes - caused by the demand for high-priced consumer gear imported from the "free territories." The ChiCom government needs to get a handle on this!
#1.1.1 Grumpus on 2014-12-26 13:07 (Reply)
Armed, menacing Teenager Shot In Missouri.

FIFY
#2 BillH on 2014-12-26 10:57 (Reply)
What does FIFY stand for please?
#3 apple pie on 2014-12-26 11:14 (Reply)
Fixed It For You. I was wondering myself, when it fixed itself for me.
#3.1 Sam L. on 2014-12-26 11:30 (Reply)
Anti-Fems against Feminists: Them Fems, being Lefties, just can't cope with disagreement. It makes the soooooooooo MAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDD!

Tikka Marsala/Cultural Appropriation: If thou art not Chinese, thou shalt not eat any Chinese food, nor use chopsticks. Thou shalt not adopt any religion from another land. (Hey, all! Anyone can play this game. Join in!) Mexican food is RIGHT OUT.

Slums: Better than where they came from. Like kids in factories--better than working all day dawn-to-dusk on the farm.

EVERYTHING is caused by HotColdWetDry. Including this response.

Imagine no religion: Another instance of Can't Trust The Press/Media--likely because the government won't let them. Or, they're all Lefties on that bus.
#4 Sam L. on 2014-12-26 11:50 (Reply)
If thou art not Chinese, thou shalt not eat any Chinese food, nor use chopsticks.

The Japanese and other asian countries can't use chopsticks (or kuàizi)???
#4.1 John the River (Link) on 2014-12-27 00:29 (Reply)
My folks had a summer cabin in the Adirondacks with a wood stove and no electricity, comfortable because it was built before modern stuff mattered.

In a few years they converted it to propane and had a portable generator 50 yards away in the brook for night illumination. To hell with chopping, filling lanterns and crap.

The old guys would have done the same thing.

Water was piped in from the brook. How come all those horrible brook diseases never happened? All the kids survived too.
#5 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-12-26 12:24 (Reply)
“Cooking in the Archives” is a blog that sets out to find, cook, and discuss recipes from cookbooks produced between 1600 and 1800.

http://rarecooking.wordpress.com/
#6 feeblemind on 2014-12-26 21:09 (Reply)
Single payer not working in Vermont, consider how well (or not) the current Federal programs (Indian Health Service, VA, Military Healthcare, prisons) are doing. They have been unable to control increasing costs despite excellent cover for malpractice, salaried (not fee paid) providers, negotiated medication prices, formularies, rationing etc). As Megan Mccardle points out elsewhere, moving to Single Payer means stepping on a lot of corns which no one seems interested in doing and won't control prices.
#7 walt moffett on 2014-12-26 23:39 (Reply)
At the link it is only talking about wood stoves; not coal or gas. Mine is Natural Gas (mostly since my late wife couldn't carry logs) and is double walled sheet metal with the outside sleeve carrying outside air for combustion and the inner core handled the combustion gases. There was a heat exchange between the two sections and warmed the outside fresh air coming into the house.
#8 John the River (Link) on 2014-12-27 11:17 (Reply)

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