Susan Hecht 🌱

Even our happiest beef is orders of magnitude worse than are unhappiest bean. Don't eat crickets. Give Rancho Gordo some business.

Image from "The Simpsons" with Mr. Burns holding calipers around Mr. Smithers' head, with a bust with "Phrenology" written on the front in front of them

Now THIS is how you respond to unhinged Islamophobia

Obviously Vance's view here is terribly xenophobic, but Usha was born and raised in San Diego—doesn't she speak mostly English?

Oooo, what was the miso cocktail?

she fails to say what that has to do with Biden and his record. She's so focused on him personally, that he's a "decent man" who somehow deserved continued support. How well did he fight for immigrants?

KJP makes a couple of good points: "I also don’t think... Democrats’ leadership is protecting vulnerable people in the way that it should" and "I think they’re throwing the L.G.B.T.Q. community under the bus. They’re not fighting enough for migrants and immigrants." BUT

All this largely for the chronic overproduction of corn: "Iowa’s corn harvest doesn’t feed a lot of people. The federal ethanol mandate for transport fuel absorbs about 60%. Almost all the rest, and about 80% of the soybean crop, goes into livestock feed."

That cat food bit at the beginning is amazing

Most people don't know that the name Cracker Barrel was derived from the expression "queerer than a barrel of crackers"

Depends on how light the room is--definitely get a sample to paint on the wall and see how it looks

No, but thanks for reminding me that I have some in the freezer!

THIS IS WHERE THE PARTY ENDS
I CAN’T STAND HERE LISTENING TO YOU
AND YOUR RACIST FRIEND

YouTube video by sj music Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - The Sinister Minister

Or listened to Sinister Minister? youtu.be/jndnEosYpqo?...

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

My top films of the 21st century: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Y u mamá también; Song of the Sea; Snowpiercer; Max Max: Fury Road; Chicken Run; Coco; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Get Out; Spirited Away

off the top of my head, best films of the 21st century

I’ve seen in my mom and friends’ elderly parents how an undiagnosed UTI or sinus infection can really mess them up (and what a big difference it makes when it’s finally diagnosed and treated). It’s a wild ride.

I had a similar experience in the 80s in a rural church in NW Iowa, not particularly liberal! No altar girls, but women as lectors and Eucharistic ministers.

"Protecting the Bible" sounds like straight up Protestantism—no Pope needed

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory EAST HANOVER, NJ—As part of the health secretary’s highly publicized pledge to determine the cause of the disorder in the next five months, a wild-eyed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly shouted “Show me where autism is made!” Thursday while storming the Sour Patch Kid factory. “Attention Sour Patch Factory people: Give me the autism and no […]

‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory theonion.com/show-me...

Not a lot of Iowa movies are set in NW Iowa, but this one starts out in Laurens, not too far from where I’m from

A film that takes place where you’re from.

The Making of the Los Angeles Working Class Early Los Angeles leaders were proudly anti-union, and Los Angeles was an openly pro-business, "open shop" town. But today, organized labor benefits from a wide base of popular support, and is an infl...

How did Los Angeles transform from a bastion of Republican politics to a “union town?” Join our new study series starting 3/22 to learn more – kicking off with a look at the making of the LA working class this Saturday. https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-making-of-the-los-angeles-working-class/

Why do the House Democrats, the largest body, not simply eat the Senate Democrats?

We're begging the Dem leadership to show some signs of life

Maybe he means evolutionary psychology bs

We need to you actually fight Trump, @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov!