from everything i’ve read its an in invention of american soldiers stationed in italy during WWII. awesome recipe though! when we make it we use the whole egg, not just the yolk. you put the egg mixture directly on the hot pasta so it cooks the egg, no need to worry about salmonella- you can even heat it some more if needed.

kids her age date a lot. most get a little bummed after breakups. ain’t nothing wrong with that. not a fan of her music, but jeeze leave her alone. can’t expect her to settle down and get married at her age.

i’m in the midst of planning my own wedding and there are so many fun ideas out there, but its really not worth the time or money for a lot of it. i’m definitely aiming for unique and fun wedding (i.e. not in a church or reception hall) but these little details can get pretty self indulgent. no one else will notice or care about flowers in your programs or the font on their place markers.  good people, good music and good food are all that your guests will appreciate or remember.

yet another reason to keep your cats inside and safe from cars, predators and crazy neighbors.

How about instead of “raising awareness” that cancer exists or “showing support” we actually work to make people healthier by cleaning up our air+food+water and educating people about how they can live healthier and PREVENT cancer.  OH wait, no one wants to talk about how the chemicals in the air we breath and food we eat could possibly be harmful, or how obesity is linked to cancer (because that would be blaming the victim…) Corporations sponsor events like these because it prays on people guilt and they know they can make an easy buck by selling you a yellow bracelet or a pink ribbon while at the same time they continue to poison us.  Ok. Rant over. Just please educate yourself about what you put into your body and where exactly your money goes when buy something pink or yellow or whatever. Don’t be a sheep.

so it was cheesy and nerdy, but pretty cute that she’s willing to embarrass herself a little to do something so personal that will probably make her fiance smile.  but maybe i only think that because i’m one of those people in a happy relationship.

“It hurts my feelings that I’m not allowed to discriminate freely against whoever I want. Wahhh!” Poor Victoria :(

aww did this hit a little close to home?

#20 Licorice!!! EEEEEEEE! Want!

oh, and luckily i’m getting married to someone intelligent who wouldn’t be with me in the first place if i was the type who might at any point join the military. fortunately we are both college grads with jobs and will never have to sink to that level ;)

go on, vote this post trashy or ew or wtf. but maybe you should try thinking about what it means to romanticise and idealize this sort of “patriotism”. most of you probably think the wars we are currently fighting are unjust and causing more harm than good. most of you know the sort of civilian casualties and anti-american animosity that has resulted from these wars. and while soldiers are mostly pawns in this deadly game, they DID sign up to make this so-called “greatest sacrifice” and they are the ones on the ground level causing this damage. show the damage that war does, both physically and psychologically, but please don’t romanticise this. this isn’t “cute” this isn’t a “win” this is a sad, sad story of a misguided man who went to another country with the purpose of killing other people (that’s what happens in war) and he came back an invalid who’s lucky to have a wife that is willing to take on the role of caretaker despite his decisions. don’t get caught up in the jingoistic fervor, think rationally.

oh i’m sorry, are you operating under the assumption that the wars in afghanistan and iraq are protecting our freedom??? where on earth did you get that idea? anyone that volunteered to fight in our current wars is either an asshole or was duped into it. either way, there’s no honor in what our military is doing despite all the jingoistic propaganda you see on tv.  oh never mind, i can see by your use of “libtard” that you are merely spewing rhetoric you’ve heard on fox news and talk radio. great job, you might want to try thinking for yourself at some point. just an idea.

i wonder how many civilians this soldier maimed and killed during his tour. he signed up for that. no one forced him into it. but because of his decision, his wife now has to be a caretaker instead of an equal.  there aren’t any winners in war. stop romanticising senseless violence.

she looks good for her age despite (or perhaps because of?) her excessive plastic surgery.

My friends mom died because she couldn’t afford her diabetes medication. Just because you live in a bubble doesn’t mean that everyone is doing fine.

While carbon emissions ARE an issue, they are not the ONLY issue involved with climate change. Loss of biodiversity due to deforestation, urban and suburban sprawl, and pollution is a major warning sign. The resources and runoff associated with building and maintaining major road systems have a negative impact on not only local vegetation and wildlife health, but also on human health (ex: asthma rates among children living next to highways are higher than among children living elsewhere). The negative externalities related are usually not passed on to the consumer, and when they are (as seen with this buzzfeed article) people get angry. While my main area of study relates to urban environmental justice, I’ve taken enough economics to know that when negative externalities are not factored into the price of a good, it can lead to over-consumption of that good. You are correct that one needs only to follow the trail of money to find out true motives. However, environmentalists aren’t really making a whole lot of money out of this. In fact, many in the field have left other more lucrative careers to work on something they feel passionate about. You can point to Al Gore as your poster child of profiting from this, but he’s only one man and is not responsible for the environmental justice movement. Yes, some companies are capitalizing on the “green” trend, but most of those aren’t truly “green”. (i.e. bottled water companies advertising new “eco-friendly” bottles, now with 10% less plastic!) Corporations involved with the production of fossil fuels would much rather if restrictions from the EPA were lifted in order to lower costs, increase production and sell more. When oil prices rise, people consume less oil. (see: Europe) Oil profits have been high due to the amount of lobbying and campaign funding they’ve been involved with. If corporations (and consumers) were made to pay for the negative externalities associated with the industry, then prices would be much, much higher.  Companies profit more by ignoring environmental concerns. Energy is an obvious example. Pharmaceutical companies are also a major player. We know that the chemicals in birth control being flushed down the toilet are affecting fish populations downstream. We don’t know what other medications are doing. We don’t know yet how to filter those chemicals out of our drinking water and how that could be affecting human health. Pharmaceutical companies also profit off of sick people. The more overweight and diabetic people there are, the higher sales for blood pressure medication and insulin will be. When more people get cancer from the chemicals in our air, food and water, chemotherapy becomes more profitably. Asthma rates higher in inner cities? More inhaler sales.  This issue is much bigger than whether or not carbon emissions are the sole factor responsible for climate change. Humans have been changing the climate for thousands of years via agriculture, humans have been killing off other species for thousands of year. The problem now is that the rate at which we are changing and destroying ecosystems is so accelerated that we are nearing a global tipping point. Third world countries are already facing the consequences in the form of water shortages, famines and flooding. We are relatively isolated in the west, but not for long if we keep up at the rate we are going.

I don’t know what “studies” you’ve been reading, but the scientific community is in consensus that global climate change is already having a huge impact in some parts of the world. Please research this matter further before forming an opinion.  Your speculation regarding access to more fossil fuels is interesting… However, it seems that the government usually doesn’t have to try that hard to get access to land that they want. But perhaps there’s other issues at play that I’m not aware of.

Please read a history book or two before you embarrass yourself further.