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Spinach Soup

26 Apr 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Chinuck

Chinese spinach soup is one of a whole class of Chinese soups called "choy tong". "Tong" means soup and "choy" are green leafy vegetables. This version is done with spinach, but the same recipe is also made with watercress, dried bok choy, or Chinese...

Reimagine Pride

23 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ApocalypseHow

Just imagine........ Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, having eaten the forbidden fruit, rather than clothing themselves and hiding from shame, instead openly laughing and ridiculing God for His "silly prohibition........" THIS IS US. Now imagine.....

Epistemic Violence

20 Apr 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Maximilian Brichta

States can exercise violence over their people in at least three ways: Instrumentally (through police, military, corrections), structurally (through social organization that grants power and privilege to some while depriving others), and epistemicall...

Today I Lost My Best Friend

19 Apr 2021 1 minute read 14 comments Cje95

No matter what was going on in my personal life my dog Rusty was always there for me. When my parents first got him for me I was in the middle of recovering from my latest major concussion in 2012. From the time of my memory coming back until this mo...

Goodguy's Rod & Custom Car Show

18 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments JR1

Yesterday I went to the Goodguys Rod & Custom Car Show and took about 1000 pictures. I tried to go through them to pick out the best photos, most unique cars, or ones I just liked, to share with everyone. LOL there are still a ton of photos and an en...

Salvation Through Music

17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Music became my refuge then my salvation."  Lena Horne   There's an early scene in American Hustle in which Amy Adams and Christian Bale are gushing about Duke Ellington.  Their characters share a great deal of enthusiasm about his music, and one of...

CNN's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

17 Apr 2021 3 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty

Introduction Ah, CNN, the gift that keeps on giving. The mainstream TV news network has been caught multiple times doing shady stuff like gatekeeping, omitting key parts of first hand accounts, or even staging footage. To cite a few examples, you rem...

Chazuke: Tea and Rice

15 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck

Drinking tea with rice might not be surprising, but I'm talking about tea on rice. Origins Way back even before the Wayback Machine and talking rice cookers, people used to cook rice in cast iron witch cauldrons. Without teflon, there would always be...

The Japanese Breakfast

13 Apr 2021 2 minute read 5 comments Chinuck

I first discovered Japanese style breakfast while on vacation in Hawaii. I didn't know there were so many Japanese people in Hawaii, but it has a long history of Japanese immigrants. I do love my scrambled eggs and hashbrowns and toast in the morning...

Chinese Comfort Food

13 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Chinuck

I grew up as a Chinese kid in Canada before the "Great Chinese Immigrations" began in the 1990s and was only 1 of 3 Chinese kids in my class. I had seen grilled cheese sandwiches on TV and heard about this mythical magic food sometimes from my classm...