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May 13, 2011 § Leave a comment
- The Web’s First Japanese Pizza Page is guaranteed to whet your appetite with the likes of shrimp, squid, tuna and mayonnaise pizza, or the squid ink pizza, which uses squid ink in lieu of tomato sauce. Yum!
- And while we’re on epicurian subjects, this article introduces us to the wonders of fermented fish sauce, a cooking staple in southeast Asia.
- “Take my opinions with a grain assault.” That’s the first line of the fascinating Holiness Snake Handlers Official Web Site, complete with photos and even videos of this mainly Appalachian religious phenomenon. [NOTE: I fixed this link, which was incorrectly sending you to the wrong site]. If you’d like a deeper look at this sect, Dennis Covington’s 1995 book, Salvation on Sand Mountain, is an engrossing journey inside snake-handling congregations, where the faithful handle deadly poisonous snakes and drink strycchnine and other poisons in a display of their faith.
- Professor Saul Cornell of Fordham University and Scholar in Residence at Yale Law School has written an interesting piece entitled “New Originalism: A Constitutional Scam,” that is worth a read no matter what your position on this issue of Constitutional interpretation.
- It takes you 46 minutes each work day to work off your income tax burden, and two hours total each day to pay the whole tax bite. 2011’s Tax Bite in the Eight-Hour Day is here.
- An article in the New Yorker explores legal issues in the killing of Osama bin Laden.
- And good news for Scrabble geeks (like me): The official Scrabble dictionary has approved two new Q words that don’t require a U.
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