Random Thoughts

[outtathereligioncloset]

Why don't we eat more goats in the US?

We tried goat chops about ten years ago.  Didn't like them.  Maybe we weren't doing it right.  But I had asked both the butcher and a Hispanic neighbor (who had told me I HAD to try goat) how to cook them, so we didn't just go at it blindly.

[Cod]

To bed or not to bed? What was the question?

[no one]

Goat is just one of Earth's tasty critters.

[Fireball]

Goat is just one of Earth's tasty critters.

Can't be all that bad. I love lamb! Guess I'll go see if I can buy some goat meat for a reasonable price.

[Joods]

Prego sounds like slang for pregnant.

It's Italian for "you're welcome", but you need to trill the "r".

[Foxaèr]

I hate my brain.

I see something on FB.  I stare at it, I read it, and I can't think of any way to respond.

I close FB.

A moment later, I have the perfect response for that FB post.

I open FB again and I can't find the post.

[Angrboda]

Five myths about the 2016 election

MYTH NO. 4

Trump's victory was due to economic anxiety.

One particular rationale for Trump’s victory came to the fore immediately after the election: He “tapped into the anger of a declining middle class,” as Bernie Sanders put it, with a message that appealed to “people [who] are tired of working longer hours for lower wages.” The journalist David Cay Johnston concurred: “Trump won because many millions of Americans, having endured decades of working more while getting deeper in debt, said ‘enough.’ ”

But the evidence is clear: Both in the Republican primaries and in the general election, white voters’ attitudes about African Americans, Muslims and immigration were more closely associated with how they voted than were any strictly economic concerns. In fact, racial attitudes were the prism through which voters thought about economic outcomes — something we call “racialized economics.” For example, after Obama became president, attitudes toward blacks suddenly became linked with people’s views on the economy: the less favorable their view of blacks, the less favorable their view of the economy. Scholars who did extensive interviews with whites in Youngstown, Ohio, and rural Louisiana reported many racially loaded statements about economic circumstances. One Youngstown factory worker said people who received government assistance had “gold chains and a Cadillac, when I can barely afford a Cavalier.”

During the 2016 campaign, the most potent political sentiment held that “people like me” were not getting ahead because of “people like them.” In the primary race, for example, support for Trump among white Americans was weakly associated with whether people were worried about losing their jobs but strongly associated with whether people believed that employers were giving jobs to minorities instead of whites. In the general election, the belief that split Trump and Clinton supporters was not whether “average Americans have gotten less than they deserve.” Majorities of both groups agreed. Instead, the dividing line was whether they thought “blacks have gotten less than they deserve”: Fifty-seven percent of Clinton supporters agreed, but only 12 percent of Trump supporters did.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The phrase 'clean coal' makes about as much sense as 'child-safe plutonium'.

Boru

[outtathereligioncloset]

[Sal]

cancer is a blight.