A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at a criminal presidency. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad. (via Metafilter)
Yes, dogs do understand English. (via Everlasting Blort)
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools. You can imagine this happening elsewhere now, too. (via Fark)
Meals For Working Families in England 1912. A diet like this should make you feel lucky to have refrigeration and supermarkets with a wide variety of food.
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. Trump wants to bring back the spoils system of the 19th century. (via kottke)
The Talented and Valiant Female Surgeon Who Joined Allied Forces in WWII and Broke Barriers Along the Way.
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Let's hear it for Tom the Dancing Bug!
I hope you're staying dry this morning, Miss C!
Read an article about the introduction of refrigerated foods. Met with the usual public fear and loathing. There was a meal of such food in the US somewhere in 1911 and the guests were described as very brave to eat such a scary meal.
One downside though is that much of today's food is rather bland. I grew up on a farm and food had more flavour which varied a bit by the season. Our free range eggs in the winter were not the same as summer for one example.
The cold storage banquet story is here. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-cold-storage-banquet-frostbite-nicola-twilley
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