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June 27, 2017 0 comments

Let Them Eat Cake

Let them eat cake…

I skimmed this => http://qz.com/1015011/supreme-court-cases-if-the-court-decides-cake-baking-is-free-speech-it-will-affect-far-more-than-same-sex-weddings/ <= article from Quartz. And ugh.

The long title is “If the US Supreme Court decides cake baking is free speech, it will affect more than gay weddings” – and the article is all about how the US Supreme Court is hearing the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

Which sounds like a fight you might be behind — “Fuck the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Small businesses forever!” — except the cake shop is owned by assholes and I hope they lose. Plus, civil rights are a big deal and everyone should 100% support them.

Because the cake shop says that while they SELL cakes and cookies to LGBTQ customers as they are required to by law, they should not have to bake specialty cakes for them, ESPECIALLY wedding cakes.

Which, you know, whatever. A wedding is a recent legal construct crafted so men can keep women as chattel. That or it’s a beautiful lifetime event that one cake shop should not be allowed to ruin, so fuck them, take your business elsewhere, and leave them a review mentioning the lack of service.

“I went to Crappy Anti-Humanity Cakeshop and they gave me a cake covered in frosting dicks” should never happen.

Neither should “I went to Crappy Anti-Humanity Cakeshop and they went on-and-on-and-on about how my lifestyle choices are against God. So I told them to suck a dick and went to Dairy Queen.”

You know why? Because if you have a business and you want to sell to the public, you should put on your Customer Satisfaction hat, not your hateful Dangerously Unbalanced Religious Zealot hat.

Otherwise, shut down your storefront. Lock your doors. Cover your head with a purple blanket. And wait for the moon men to come take you away.

It is almost 2020. You don’t want hindsight to show that your business failed not because of a lack on the customers’ part but because of a moral failing on your own.

Out of all the people that PROUDLY protested the desegregation of schools… how many of them are seen as heroes now? And how many are viewed with the contempt of our modern society?

Something to think on.

~Pax

January 3, 2017 0 comments

Watching TV #MCShowdown; Cooking plans

We were watching Master Chef Showdown and it made me want to buy a set of ramekins (those little porcelain bowls you make single-serve cakes and custards in).

There’s like a million foods I want to make!

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What I’m going to make after grocery day:
1. “Grandma’s Old Fashioned Tea Cakes” from Allrecipes.
2. “English Sticky Toffee Pudding” from Food Network.
3. “Mama’s Italian Wedding Soup” from Allrecipes.
4. “World’s Best Lasagna Recipe” from Allrecipes. (omit salt, double onions)
5. “Cabbage Fat-Burning Soup” from Allrecipes[1].
6. “Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie” from Allrecipes.
7. “The Best Parmesan Chicken Bake” from Allrecipes.
8. “Ground Beef Enchiladas” from Allrecipes (black olives, canned green chiles)
9. “Unbelievable Chicken” from Allrecipes.
10. “Baked Denver Omelet” from Allrecipes.

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[1] I’ve tasted this soup before (a woman I knew was on a diet) and I remember it being quite tasty. The legend is that you eat this soup in place of other meals and you’ll feel full because of all the liquid, but lose weight because of the low-calorie count.

I figure I’ll eat the soup once a week, or twice a week, and lose a couple of pounds. Why not.

December 18, 2016 0 comments

I keep hearing Remy Zero’s “Save Me” in my head

I keep hearing Remy Zero’s “Save Me” running through my head. It’s like somebody’s put the song on repeat or I’ve been sucked into an episode of Smallville.

The whole thing with the electors has me on edge.

I keep hoping for a Hail Mary Pass.

I fear that I will be disappointed.

It makes me wish that I was like all the people that can shrug and say “It’s won and done. There’s nothing we can do. Give up all hope but don’t despair.” I mean, they’re not necessarily happier people than me, but without hope in their hearts they’re never disappointed.

Though they’re probably going to be just as miserable as the rest of us when laws start changing and the rights of American citizens are curtailed.

It’s not something I wish on anyone. I’m not vindictive, I’m sad. For the opportunities lost, the chances wasted, and the fact that my kid won’t get to go to college as easily as I would like. (Or at all, if some of the rumblings on the war front are right. I pray he doesn’t get drafted. I want him to receive an education.)

November 16, 2016 0 comments

Am I paranoid, or should I be more vigilant?

We were walking home from the store, and a gray/silver SUV drives past, and parks on the side of the road about a hundred feet ahead of us.

My internal alarms went on high-alert, and when we started approaching and I saw that there was exhaust coming out of the exhaust pipe — signaling the car was on but in park — I told the Kid to cross the street and walk on my other side. As we approached the point where we would have been able to see the driver, the vehicle — moving pretty fast for a 25mph zone — started moving and turned into the long church driveway. It drove halfway up and stopped there, waiting.

But it was pretty obvious that’s not where the driver wanted to be, as when another car turned in there had to be some odd maneuvering to get out of the way.

I feel like the driver didn’t want me to see who they are.

Which — considering I’ve been talking about that weird black truck crawling by my house a few times, and the car that drove by taking pictures of my house (the Kid was scared and told me what he saw) — I’m getting spooked.

Seriously, if I get hate-crimed or serial killed, it’s all the same when I’m dead.