In some quarters it has long been argued that the North should have let the South leave the Union. We have been assured that if that had been allowed to happen slavery would have died a slow death and much bitterness and bloodshed would have been avoided.
But in this essay, “Spengler” argues that South would have spread slavery throughout the southern hemisphere if they had not been stopped by the Lincoln.
I guess this is what you do when the thrill of your childhood swingset wears off. The whiplash is probably pretty extreme, though. Not for those who have recently eaten.
I did not make this cake. I wish I had. Or even if I hadn’t, I wish I could eat it. So at the very least, the cake is responsible for inciting envy, jealousy, and, um, lust?
You can find more pictures here.
If you dare, you can try to make this cake yourself; here’s the recipe, and the recipe for the frosting is here.
The Ministry Of Manipulation.com is a pretty decent site, with links to a lot of good videos. For some reason I can’t fathom, they seem to find body popping and contact juggling worth watching, but other than that, they have a lot of cool stuff. I got a bunch of my video links from them, Click Here to continue reading.
I came across an article about “random” numbers recently that I found quite interesting. It found that when people are asked to pick a random number between 1 and 20, they favor prime numbers, particularly the number 17. Read the article here, and the follow-up article here/
Why don’t European tradesmen use pickup trucks? As best as I can tell from what I read, European tradesmen use a mixture of small vans and one ton (and up) trucks. The half ton and three quarter ton pickup trucks that are widely used in America are almost unheard of in Europe. Why is this?
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This morning at Acme we had some parts that were run wrong on the machine and needed to be fixed up. This already is a disgrace according to the standards of Lean manufacturing. But it was worse because K. D. wasn’t at the meeting to promise that he could fix them, and nobody else knew Click Here to continue reading.
My job in the shipping department at Acme is to monitor the flow of product to customer and raise alarms when problems arise or there is potential for improvement.
I actually spend my time at Acme compensating for the problems that have already happened, for water that has flowed under the bridge and now must be Click Here to continue reading.
This is a comment I posted recently on this blog (on this post). I will probably regret it in the morning. In my opinion, if you address any philosophical issue in under 30 pages you are guaranteed to make a fool out of yourself. So read this quick, before I think better of it and Click Here to continue reading.
The art of using up left-overs is nearly just as important as knowing how to make the beginning meal. Lack of ability to feed the entire horde with leftovers can sometime force people to ingest peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, an cruel punishment indeed.
In this case, The Troll was faced with the challange of feeding the horde with leftover corned beef, and the first rule of leftovers is that if you don’t make it good enough to be eaten, it doesn’t count as using up leftovers (because no one will eat it). Left over corned beef, besides the original challenges of being fatty and salty, also smells putrid when simply heated up in the microwave and eaten in the same manner as the night before. A solution must be found. . .