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The misuse of you're and your, are and our, and "should, would, could, might "of" really make my teeth rattle. should HAVE, please!!!!!!

For the record, 'wether' is the correct term for a castrated ram sheep or buck goat. Not a female sheep. It's used all the time, not archaic at all, and is often mis-spelled.

A portion of a dialog on the degradation of democratic society and its youth, and the abandonement parental responsibility. From Plato's Republic, written around 300 years before Christ: Freedom, I replied. Don't you indeed hear it said that, in a democratic city, [562c] it has the fairest...

City folks. Here in the bushes I'm lucky to get 9 and a half gig upload speed. It's all CenturyLink provides this far out. We get by. The wife and I are both on our laptops and the TV is streaming off the wifi router without hiccups. How much do you need, anyhow?

You're on the far eastern fringe of the southwest. We get serious monsoon season in AZ. A week ago a microburst hit us here from the west. I clocked 65 mile an hour winds that blew down three old cottonwoods along the creek. The rain hit the house horizontally and somehow enough of it managed to...

Pretty sure I'd have sent other ways to reassure and comfort my daughter. Unless she was maybe a Marine, or a cage fighter, or something.

I have been a teacher, principal and consultant to schools for over 35 years and have never known a single teacher who "indoctrinated" students with "utopian" ideals and the other nonsense spewed in this thread about schools. Those of you who feel this way, please let me know where those...

Good in a tall glass with soda water and a lime squeeze, maybe a dash or two of bitters.

In the late 50s or maybe 60 or so a friend's dad bought a pre-built fallout shelter and had it installed in their backyard. Had this cool looking metal hatch and ladder and some sort of air filter stack thing that stuck up above ground. We used to hang out in it. It took about 10 years for it to...

My old Stanley thermos is going strong at about 30 years old. It's beat to heck. Nice thing about them is you can easily buy new cap/cups, pour spouts and O rings for them. I remember the glass lined ones, mostly shattered.

Mine is nearly the same, with a few additions. The cubed pork shoulder is dredged in flour lightly before frying. To the spices, add comino (cumin), not too much and dry oregano. Mexican oregano if you can find it. I use a combination of Anaheim, fresh Poblano and a few Jalapeño chiles and...

Not guns, cast iron cookware. Prelude: I know very well how to care for, season and restore cast iron cookware. I own quite literally a ton of it, most very old. Now then, one piece I have is a 30s-40s vintage Griswold 10" griddle that I believe is nickel plated. It's entirely black with...

Velveeta oh never mind....

Sounds to me like you are.

Beer, bread, crackers, cheese, pasta. And we blame the weight gain on the cheese. I would submit that it ain't the cheese at all, it's all the go-with carbs. I eat LOTS of cheese and lose weight.

I meant KerryGold. Their grass fed Irish butter is the bomb too, if you can't get fresh-grass butter locally.

I think for really, truly x-sharp Vermont Cheddars you have to go to the small creameries. Cabot used to be a good grocery store sharp cheddar, and while it still has the flakey dryness a real cheddar should have, its sharpness has been moderated. I like the big blocks of Irish Cheddar from...

Real cheese contains milk, salt, rennet and cheese culture. Nothing else. I like almost any real cheese. Nothing is more revolting that processed cheese. Maybe cat vomit. Or something but nothing else. The King of Cheese is Parmigiano Reggiano. It's arguably the purest manufactured food on...

Around here I get rid of old junk like that by putting an ad on craigslist and give it away. Scrappers who sell for the metal value will come and generally take everything that is primarily steel/iron. The CRT televisions are a problem. I had to pay 10 bucks to an appliance recycler to take my...

I have found the two-wheel setup on a converted bench grinder to be the very best system I've ever used. Not as easy as the videos make it look, but I can put shaving sharp, glass polished edges on most any knife in maybe two minutes. With practice, it doesn't remove nearly as much material as I...