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Christmas Recipes: Wednesday Cookies | Submitted By: LuAnn Wagner —14649 days’ago’
This is light, soft cookie, flavored with vanilla, and topped with a fluffy icing. Pretty just as they are, or decorated for special occasions and holidays.


Easter Recipes: Cottage Cheese Perogies | Submitted By: BRIDY —14649 days’ago’
Very easy recipe to make, and a wonderful twist to an ordinary perogy. These cheese filled perogies taste great just boiled or fried with a little butter. Eat them with sour cream and you will have a wonderful dinner. You can easily double or triple the recipe and place extras in the freezer.


Halloween Recipes: Spider Cupcakes | Submitted By: Heatherly Noble —14649 days’ago’
Chocolate cupcakes with licorice legs, candy corn fangs, and red hot eyes -- perfect for Halloween.


Hanukkah Recipes: German Potato Pancakes | Submitted By: SWIZZLESTICKS —14649 days’ago’
Pan-fried potato pancakes are fun to make and fun to eat!


4th of July: Mexican Turkey Burgers with Pico de Gallo | Submitted By: Peach822 —14649 days’ago’
A delicious twist on the standard burger and traditional burger toppings! Ground turkey burgers seasoned with cumin, coriander, chili powder, and garlic - to name a few - then topped with Pico de Gallo salsa made from fresh tomatoes, onion, and fresh cilantro.

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What the F***? – Why we Curse. —14649 days’ago’
Steven Pinker in The New Republic The strange emotional power of swearing–as well as the presence of linguistic taboos in all cultures– suggests that taboo words tap into deep and ancient parts of the brain. In general, words have not just a denotation but a connotation: an emotional coloring distinct from what the word literally refers [...]


Republican rats scrabble to take over the sinking ship —14649 days’ago’
Gerard Baker in The London Times This year it’s different. While the Democratic race is, as I noted last week, turning into an extended coronation for the Sun Queen, the Republican contest is a fog of competitive chaos. This is all the more striking because the polls suggest that the party is on course for a [...]


The unbridgeable gap between law and science —14649 days’ago’
Steve Connor in The Independent It is always amusing to see how the legal mind treats science given that both aspects of human activity are about the search for the truth. The trouble is, the law, like politics, is about certainties, whereas science is as much about what we don’t know as what we know for [...]


Gore Wins the Nobel. But Will He Run? —14649 days’ago’
Eric Pooley in Time For the past year, Al Gore has gone about his considerable business without showing much interest in running for president. While picking up an Oscar and an Emmy, publishing a very smart book and playing host at a global concert for the planet, he’s never done more than tease the idea. And [...]


What has Al Gore Done For World Peace? —14649 days’ago’
Damian Thompson in The Telegraph So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel – but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert. The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the [...]