There are now 176 posts here. It gets unwieldy trying to find the right stuff among so much stuff. So I have gone through every post and categorized all the food posts.
If you want pasta, vegetables, meat, fish or even vegetarian, just type that into the search box and every post indexed under your term will come up.
I’ll bet if you searched on pasta we’d both be surprised.
Add comment May 4th, 2007
Sometimes it is very difficult.
It is difficult when reading a news report like this one. They are taking her where? Oh dear! It’s boring! It was once the original colonial site that had women, but they all died! Who would drag an eighty year old lady who has been all over the world and who owns all the swans in Great Britain to Roanoke settlement? The forest closed over it and it was forgotten until someone started digging it up again. All up and down the east coast are places you could describe the same way, leaving out the word “original” but most of them have Walmarts on top of them now.
And then I read that some people are asking the non-political figurehead of the British government and people to apologize for introducing slavery and mistreating native Americans.
Listen, you people with sieves for brains, it is true that once most American colonials were British, but some years back there was a war and we, mostly British citizens, won. The Loyalists and the British government and military all went home or to Canada. What was left was us, American citizens. What happened after that was our responsibility. There were some drafters of the Constitution who wanted to abolish slavery right then, but we didn’t do it. It took us about 100 years to get around to it, whereas the British did it about 20 years before we did.
We continued to hunt down, kill and exploit native Americans right into the 20th century.
So, I don’t think it’s their fault. Maybe Queen Elizabeth II should apologize for the terrible breakfast I was served at my student hostel in London, but for US slavery and cruelty to native Americans, no, I don’t think so.
There, I didn’t use any terrible language at all.
The photo is linked from the BBC News website.
Add comment May 4th, 2007
