Stupid happy couple! Somebody really needs to go over there, piss on their wedding cake, and point out to them that everything is rigged to disappoint and crush them, and what isn't rigged is fucked, that the Universe hates them, and they're going to die horrible, lonely, meaningless deaths at the hands of rabid swine!
Yeesh…
So now, how to remove bitterness….
From burned rice…Even though it's just the bottom layer that's blackened, the smoky smell and bitter flavor of burned rice permeate all the way to the top grains. Salvage overcooked rice with this quick trick.
Instructions
Step One: Transfer the unburned rice carefully from the cooking pot to another lidded bowl or pot.
Step Two: Wipe two or three onions with a clean, damp cloth.
Step Three: Remove the papery outer peels from the onions.
Step Four: Spread the onion peels completely over the surface of the unburned rice.
Step Five:: Cover the pot or bowl tightly and let it sit for 15 minutes. The onion peels will absorb the bitterness.
Step Six: Discard the onion peels and serve the rice.
From brinjals (Which I believe are veiny, purple tubers that grow in Deja Thoris’ garden on Barsoom. But I could be mistaken.)…Everytime I make a stir fry dish with small brinjals, there's a bitter taste.
Bitterness can be removed by adding a small amount of jaggery to the dish.
From white wine…Gelatin --- Remove bitter taste in white wine
From red wine…Egg-whites Positive bitter tannin reduction in red wine
From citrus fruit…The bitter taste comes from the white flesh between the outer shin and the fruit. Avoid eating that and it will help a lot. Also otherwise bitter and sour can be helped with good old sugar. Some people taste these flavors more strongly than others and have trouble with strongly flavored foods.
From…Humbolt squid?The bitter taste in the Humbolt squid is from a water soluble peptide. Simply soak the squid meat in water for a couple of hours before eating. This removes the bitter taste. Also filet off the membrane from both sides of the meat.
Enjoy and good eats!
And from the human heart?
You got me.
Go cuddle some onions, maybe.
Water your squid.
Or have a few glasses of gelatinized white wine, and a few glasses of eggy red, dodge around the white flesh of the outer shin, and then jaggery the bejesus out of your brinjals.
Because while being an observant skeptic is useful, being an utterly embittered cynic is, in the end, just boring.
Ultimately, being one of the High Priests of Hopelessness – automatically gainsaying anything that even whiffs of a tick in a positive direction -- is just a fraternal twin to exactly the same kind of mindless reflex that the 27% twitch out when they automatically agree with whatever horseshit the White House is troweling out today.
It's also just plain lazy, which is why it
always sounds the same.
That's why such character are easy to write. All they ever say is...
- Give up.
- Give in.
- We're fucked.
- It's useless.
- It's pointless.
- Resistance is futile.
- Diebold!
- This is not danger, it is inevitable destruction. You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden under foot.
- Luke, it is your destiny.
- And otherwise "Mwahahaha!"
Any whispers whatsoever about the possibility that at some point a tomorrow might dawn that is marginally better than today must be mercilessly and mechanically mowed down whenever and wherever such foolishness peeks above the flat, gray tide of despondency.
Because if we don't all join hands to stamp out every flicker of joy and enthusiasm wherever we find it, then people might dare get slightly optimistic for, say, five minutes at a time.
And if that is allowed to happen?
Oh Noes!
Should that happen, tiny tendrils of something filthy and evil like hope or promise might start to spring up between the cracks. Which -- for reasons that the High Priests of Hopelessness never make entirely clear -- is apparently worse than eleven Hitlers.
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It's like some bizarre variant of Round Up, keeps anything from sprouting up between the cracks of the wonderfully paved-over (and hence well-controlled) world.
The Russians recently did some research near Chernobyl regarding just how fast nature will eat its way up through the pavement when the spraying stops.
Last night was a republican victory. In this year in which the repubs are going into the election with more negatives than any party in decades, for the DEMOCRATIC candidate to win the popular votes in Texas and Ohio by saying things like:
"Vote for me or the terrrists will eat your children"
and, 24 hours before the Texas and Ohio primaries:
"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Senator John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."
...is depressing. We do NOT have, as the Hillary supporters keep saying: "Two fine candidates". We have a republican-lite on the war, and on such issues as helping bush with the Kiel-Lieberman amendment, and co-sponsoring, with one of the rankest right-wingers in the senate, Robert Bennett, an amendment to make burning the american flag a federal crime; and the other candidate, a bright, decent man, who can legitamately go after the republicans for their bloody mess in Iraq.
It's starting to sound like she's angling for the second spot on the fucking republican ticket.
THIS is the stuff of wingnut dreams.
MORE. She is the CANDIDATE of wingnut dreams. When the braintrust of the RNC read that little statement, their eyes got glassy. When I googled to find the precise words, guess where it came up first?
A right-wing blog.
And does anyone reading this think that McCain and the GOP won't use it if she's able to get the nomination?
Is she going to sit across from John McCain at the debates and say THAT to him?
What is nauseating is reading the blogs run by women who support her, as they so studiously ignore the reality of her using these republican talking points against a candidate who has used NO right-wing smears on her.
They keep hammering away at McCain, while Clinton says things like the above comment.
It's fucking insane. And it's the same kind of Orwellian doublethink that let bush and the warmpimps get us into the quagmire.
It's no accident that the drool-heads like Limbaugh, Coulter, etc., were telling their fans to cross over and vote for Clinton. They KNOW who they want to run against.
It's a terrible indictment of a lot of democrats, including some that call themselves "progressives" that at least some of the time, Rush Limbaugh, etc. are politically smarter than they are.
Despair sounds more intelligent to fake intellectuals than hope. Hope sounds naive.
The anti-bitter sounds sweet. Sweet is for babies. Can't have that.
It really is about being adult enough to make wise choices knowing they might need adjusting.
There is only one adult currently running for President. The cool, hopeful, young guy. Yep.
Yes! Ah, yes is a word with a glorious ring! A true universal utopious thing! Engenders embracing and chasing of blues, the very best word for the whole world to use!
Peace! Peace! Supplant the doom and the gloom! Turn off what is sour! Turn into a flower and BLOOM! BLOOM! BLOOM!
Ringo: First time I saw that Nowhere Man, that Nobody, "I" knew he was Somebody.
If people who never say anything but "yr all loozrs whu cant git leyd" are called "trolls" maybe the despair junkies out there should be called "dementors"? Or would that be a copyright violation?
Arson, Rape, and Bloody Murder
and old fashioned IWW sing along.
What we need is some... banjo music!
As Steve Martin used to say, nothing sounds bad when you sing it to a banjo!
Oh, blood and death and pain and murder...plinka plinka plink a plink.
The endlessly cynical people remind me of that definition of snobbery; that being a snob means never liking anything, for fear someone more snobby than you will come along and say, "So that's the kind of thing you like."
Brilliant Prose, Drift, worth spreading everywhere; but if it were, there would be four hundred friggin' comments here by now.
I like it like this. . . like the best little restaurant you've ever discovered, and it's always just a few regulars scattered around, munching the good stuff.
And from the human heart?
You got me.
Simple, really; but so very difficult to do.
When will we learn that the beauties of the spiritual values of truth
are far more pleasurable and uplifting than any phenomenon of evil.
Why, when there's so much good truth to publish and proclaim,
should they dwell so much upon the evil in the world,
just because it appears to be a fact?
And as we view the world, we must constantly remind ourselves
that we aren't viewing white patches of good which show up miserably
against a black background of evil; the black patches of evil we see
are shown against a white background of ultimate good.
Tanbark: I'd like to cross-post your comment above to my blog; okay?
I'll check for your consent here. Thanks.
A Dejah Thoris reference? My life is complete.
I dont't think anybody is pissing on hope's grave per se.
I do think the idea of Obama as the savior is an anathema to a lot of people with more of a realpolitik mentality.
Politics ain't beanbag and the idea that someone that came from the rough and tumble world of chicago politics is somehow not connected to the grime is more than a tad naive.
I think all this "the sky is falling, the sky is falling"(she can't win the general election, she'll make Mccain unbeatable!) crap is just that.
For a different look at Obama-
http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/full
That doesn't seem to me to be the charismatic, easy-going and enlightened portrait I see painted .
From Salon:
This isn't a tea party and the pukes are not going to play nice when we finally decide on a candidate. This ridiculous notion that everyone is supposed to have a civilized discussion just flies in the face of 200+ years of politics in America. This is about passion and ambition - this is human and it's going to raucous. Learn to love it.
For the record, unless the Axis of Asshats stages a coup-and I am not ruling that out, I'll vote for whomever the democratic canidate is.
Len
Our candidates are better than their candidate.
Our candidates are better than their candidate.
Terry, feel free to use it.
Thanks for asking. :o)
Tanbark,
Thanks!
(And thanks to Drift our interlocutor. ;-)
Drifty, sometimes yer theatre of the absurd is so off the fuckin wall, even the dry wall guys can't figger it out.
Are you railin at the Anti Obama?
For the Anti Obama?
I'm pissed, from JFK, thru MLK, thru CA Govrnor's Nixon and Reagan, and from the whole 1% fuckin us and the whole world, time after time.
I won't go into the historical stats of our foreign interventionist impact . .
I won't go into our deplorable domestic policy's that have wiped out an entire middle class (on purpose).
But I'm pissed. If yer pissed too, could you just FUCKIN say so?
Hope? Obama is a shill less of a shot in the dark fr change, and he's the best we got, cus Edwards and Kuch WERE shut out by the 1%.
I'm fuckin 'sposed to get on my knees and swallow some shit like he's the savior?
No, he's all I've got, and all I got has fucked me since they shot JFK.
I'm pissed.
And I'll shout praise and joy when I DO see some change.
Till then, it's a fuckin choke hold to swallow and pray, and I'm NOT a religious man, Peace Be Unto Bhudda, to vote for Obama, which is all I got left.
What a glory hole of shit, to put up a woman and a black man, and have the country regale it like it was progress unto itself.
They ain't progress, they is bought and sold as much as any other asshat pol the 1% controls.
I'll take Obama, with SOME hope, SOME stuff might get better.
But yer a lyin putz if yer tryin to tell me, any of them is hope, for REAL progressive change.
Your. Worst. Premise. Ever.
Let's get this straight, we vote for Obama, cuz it's the least worst thing, and we don't really know how bad he MIGHT be, in support of the 1%.
Hope? Yer killin me. This is a desperation vote, to keep the pub's out . . . . and I ain't convinced Obama is gonna be any different, on progressive issues.
Killin me, just KILLIN me.
Call it for what it is, hoss . . . but it ain't progressive.
N that's NO whine, dammit.
Ok now that THAT lil diatribe of mine is over, here's my UPBEAT side:
Hoss, yer virtually one of the ONLIEST one's, serving it up for hard ball, and truth as you see it, out here in cyber space.
Gilley, he got yer back. The others, not so much.
Sorry I railed, I made a point, rather harshly, but I GOTTA sing yer praises. I'd be a fool and traitor to MY ideals to pose you as a bad guy.
Yer a leader . . . I value your voice, and I thank you for it.
Sorry if I railed . . . but i'm PISSED!!!! Ya know? *G*
What has changed, so far?
Same old; if you're NOT pissed, you aint paying attention. It's just that we need to be pissed, intelligently.
And it's not intelligent to be supporting a damn candidate who voted to authorize bush's loon-crusade, and from whom, as Keith Olberman pointed out, 20 debates into the most important primary since 1860, one ounce of piss-thin remorse for it had to be extracted from her like it was a fucking molar being pulled with a pair of chopsticks.
I keep forgetting to fill in the name blank. Sorry, tb.
And speaking of cynicism and Diebold...
Yesterday, While I was listening to the Thom Hartman show, this came to light:
Charles Black, lobbyist and spokesman for the Mccain campaign, Recently defended Mccain against charges that he was in the pocket of the lobbyists.
Read that sentence again.
Charles Black (the ant-lobbying lobbyist) also lobbies for a company called United Technologies.
United Technologies just put in a bid for ... wait for it... wait for it... Diebold.
The company that runs a third of the voting machines in the good ol usa.
The bid by UT was at a 66% premium, 3 billion dollars.
A steal for that price, Dontcha think?
3 billion dollars is a great price for an all you can steal buffet.
The company is scheduled to change hands before the November 4th election.
Coincidence? I think not.
Sorry to wake you up with the bitter taste.
We've been an empire since Mckinley...Voting is a farce.
Cheers!
Len
Tan old hoss buddy, some how I knew that was you. *G*
N I surely hope Drifty will accept my pennance.
I'm drinkin cheap Merlot, Drifty, in yer honor.
;-)
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