A K-9 officer was stabbed in the head Sunday during a pursuit, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said.

The entire speech was given recently to a group of graduates who were not even alive when his version of the iconic vigilante debuted.

This man is running for Governor, as a candidate of presumably the Xenophobic Party.

It’s been a strange couple of weeks, here in Castle Wheaton. Anne was gone for six days, came home for literally twenty-two minutes and left again for another day. When she got home, we saw each other for about an hour, and then I had to go to sleep early to wake up early to fly across the country for two days. When I got back, she had to leave again for Piggy and Pug promotion, and it wasn’t until last night that we finally had an opportunity to make dinner together and catch up on all the stuff we did while we were gone.

“I have been feeling this strong compulsion to clean stuff up,” I told her while we were finishing dinner. “I wonder if it’s some kind of Spring Cleaning impulse that I’ve never noticed before.”

“More like never had before,” she reminded me.

“Okay, that’s fair,” I said.

We ate the empanadas we’d made. They were better than I expected.

“Hey, speaking of that,” she said, “will you come into our bedroom with me for a minute?”

Heckyeahsexytimesdottumblrdotcom I thought. “Sure,” I said.

I have this big pile of sweaters and hoodies at the foot of our bed. I keep meaning to put them away, but my closet is a shitshow and the shelves are a disaster. I have a box on the top shelf where most of my sweaters and scarves live when we aren’t having our three to five weeks of winter in Los Angeles. It is currently … not optimal.

“What’s going on with …” she indicated with her hand, sort of twirling it around like Vanna White, but with a little more distaste, “… this … stuff. Here.”

“Oh, those are all my dumb sweaters. I already put a bunch of them away, and I just need to find some room in the closet to put the rest of them away.”

“Isn’t that what your box is for?”

“Yes, but it’s already full. I must have added sweaters to my life this winter, and now I’m past the critical mass for sweaters.” I shrugged. “But don’t worry, I’m going to put them away tomorrow. I just need to clean up that shelf and get it more organized.”

“You’re going to put them in the bin that’s already full?”

“No, I’m going to put them in the spot next to the box, which is currently a jumble of kilts and horsemasks.”

She looked at me with a mixture of amusement and disbelief.

“…a jumble … of …” she was unable to finish the thought.

“This is who you married,” I said. “You did this on purpose.”

 

While so many people hear Yanny, so many others hear Laurel and it’s starting to divide friends and family across the nation.

Christ, this looks horrible.

Terrifying.

This guy picked the wrong target.

With a big glop of mayo on top.  Because everyone knows how tasty aquarium water is.

Other examples in a gallery entitled "Aspic, the Devil's Foodstuff."  Via.

The officer was called after his 14-year-old daughter "disrespected her teacher."

Six hours after he was reported missing, a detective found 1-year-old Bradley sleeping face down, covered in dirt and pine cones.

In Friday's White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly said she would not "validate a leak" or comment on an internal staff meeting.

Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze, a Republican, has been caught embellishing his military record, including wearing a Purple Heart he never earned.

This is a Power Air Fryer Oven review, including both PROs and CONs of the product. 

Power Air Fryer Oven Review

We’ve been testing out the Power Air Fryer Oven that’s pitched by this guy on TV:

Both my Mom and I are big air fryer users – a couple of years ago, I purchased the Phillips Air Fryer for her. We’ve also reviewed air fryers from Kalorik, Bella, Simple Living, and the Power Air Fryer XL (from same company as this review).

What’s in the Power Air Fryer Box

There’s a lot of stuff in the box. So many parts! Lots of sharp pointy parts that look a little intimidating. Clockwise, from machine – rollie-poly basket for small foods, rotisserie fork (to jab into your chicken or roast), 10 skewers, rotisserie wheels, rotisserie handle, rotisserie stand (the black thing), a random screw, 4 racks.

PRO: The rollie-poly basket is amazing. Stick your food into the basket (like nuggets, sweet potato fries, etc.) and the basket rotates, so that the hot air circulates evenly.

PRO: Lots of recipes.

PRO: With the rotating rotisserie, the air fryer becomes more than just for “fried” foods like fries and onion rings.  You can cook so much food in the Power Air Fryer Oven.

PRO: The bottom tray is removable for easy cleaning.

CON: The inside is heavy duty plastic. The door is plastic. I was expecting metal, especially for an oven that costs $160. For $40 more, you can get a metal version. But that price seems so high. Here are their different models.

PRO: You can even use the Power Air Fryer Oven as a dehydrator. Which makes total sense, because a dehydrator is basically just hot air blowing.

CON: The trays came a little warped, though I later when I used the trays for chicken wings, the heat helped straighten the trays a bit. The little plastic channels for the trays are very difficult to use. It takes me a couple of tries of very careful insertion in order to catch the grooves correctly. This is incredibly difficult when you have super hot trays, heavy with food on them.

PRO: The front door is removable for easy cleaning.

Let me show you side by side with my Philips Air Fryer.

PRO: The Philips Air Fryer basket means I can only have ONE layer of food. Stacking food on top of each other means air cannot circulate well. On the other hand, the Power Air Fryer Oven’s rolling basket allows me to cook more food, without having to turn or flip the food.

I actually spent $30 to buy this accessory for the Philips fryer. It gives me a small rack for a second layer of food and four TINY skewers, way too small and would only hold enough food for 2 not-so-hungry people.

PRO: The Power Air Fryer Oven’s skewer are much bigger and I get 10 of them. Enough food for our family of 4. These are sirloin steak skewers with bell pepper/tomato.

Loaded them up on the rack, used the handle to easily insert into machine.

PRO: 10 skewers! The space is TIGHT though. I feel like the machine needs another inch in height.

CON: So you’re supposed to be able to fit an entire chicken for rotisserie. I tried 3 different stores to find a small enough chicken to fit into this opening. No luck. What you need is a 3 1/2 pound whole chicken that is no bigger than 5.5 inches wide (otherwise the chicken would touch the top grate).

PRO: The glass door of the Power Air Fryer Oven means I can see my food cooking.

PRO: Amazing! Steak is perfect. Nicely seared on outside, perfect medium on inside.

PRO: Nice removable tray and removable door for easy cleanup. Wipe down the oven with damp cloth.

CON: The inside is a little hard to clean, especially with those grooves for the trays.

Let’s try chicken wings breaded with egg and crushed Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. I sprayed the trays with cooking oil, and I also sprayed the top of each wing with oil. The 3 layers BARELY fit. Again, I’d love an additional inch of space.

You have to rotate the trays. The top layer cooks fastest.

CON: As I mentioned, the trays are really difficult to insert into those grooves, especially with it being crazy hot and heavy with food.

PRO: Look! Super crispy, crunchy chicken wings! with just a spray of oil.

PRO: Oh they were GOOD.

PRO: Cleanup was not bad, as long as your food doesn’t touch the walls or top of the Power Air Fryer Oven.

CON: We put the trays into the dishwasher. They rusted a bit. You have to wash and immediately dry the metal parts. Quick scrub and rust comes out.

The price for the Power Air Fryer Oven is $169 (here’s my affiliate Amazon link). It’s an oven, a rotisserie, dehydrator and air fryer, all in one. I’m giving away my Philips Air Fryer and keeping this one. Despite some quirks of the appliance, I really think it’s the best air fryer on the market. I don’t have pictures of the rotating basket for fries, but it works amazing. The fries were evenly cooked and so crispy, with just a spritz of oil.

The Elite version with metal interior is $199. A larger, 8 quart size is sold on their website for $199.

Power Air Fryer Oven Review & Giveaway

 

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White House aide Kelly Sadler responded to Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's pick for CIA director by saying Thursday morning that "he's dying anyway."

On the left (literally and figuratively), Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton.  In the opposite corner (politically), Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.  They each took office in 2010 in demographically-similar states; their performance since that time has been analyzed in detail by David Cooper (Georgetown University) and published by the Economic Policy Institute.  Herewith a summary -

Since the 2010 election of Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Governor Mark Dayton in Minnesota, lawmakers in these two neighboring states have enacted vastly different policy agendas. Governor Walker and the Wisconsin state legislature have pursued a highly conservative agenda centered on cutting taxes, shrinking government, and weakening unions. In contrast, Minnesota under Governor Dayton has enacted a slate of progressive priorities: raising the minimum wage, strengthening safety net programs and labor standards, and boosting public investments in infrastructure and education, financed through higher taxes (largely on the wealthy).

Because of the proximity and many similarities of these two states, comparing economic performance in the Badger State (WI) versus the Gopher State (MN) provides a compelling case study for assessing which agenda leads to better outcomes for working people and their families. Now, seven years removed from when each governor took office, there is ample data to assess which state’s economy—and by extension, which set of policies—delivered more for the welfare of its residents. The results could not be more clear: by virtually every available measure, Minnesota’s recovery has outperformed Wisconsin’s...

Key findings include:

• Job growth since December 2010 has been markedly stronger in Minnesota than Wisconsin, with Minnesota experiencing 11.0 percent growth in total nonfarm employment, compared with only 7.9 percent growth in Wisconsin. Minnesota’s job growth was better than Wisconsin’s in the overall private sector (12.5 percent vs. 9.7 percent) and in higher-wage industries, such as construction (38.6 percent vs. 26.0 percent) and education and health care (17.3 percent vs. 11.0 percent).
• From 2010 to 2017, wages grew faster in Minnesota than in Wisconsin at every decile in the wage distribution. Low-wage workers experienced much stronger growth in Minnesota than Wisconsin, with inflation-adjusted wages at the 10th and 20th percentile rising by 8.6 percent and 9.7 percent, respectively, in Minnesota vs. 6.3 percent and 6.4 percent in Wisconsin.
• Gender wage gaps also shrank more in Minnesota than in Wisconsin. From 2010 to 2017, women’s median wage as a share of men’s median wage rose by 3.0 percentage points in Minnesota, and by 1.5 percentage points in Wisconsin.
• Median household income in Minnesota grew by 7.2 percent from 2010 to 2016. In Wisconsin, it grew by 5.1 percent over the same period. Median family income exhibited a similar pattern, growing 8.5 percent in Minnesota compared with 6.4 percent in Wisconsin.
• Minnesota made greater progress than Wisconsin in reducing overall poverty, child poverty, and poverty as measured under the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure. As of 2016, the overall poverty rate in Wisconsin as measured in the American Community Survey (11.8 percent) was still roughly as high as the poverty rate in Minnesota at its peak in the wake of the Great Recession (11.9 percent, in 2011).
• Minnesota residents were more likely to have health insurance than their counterparts in Wisconsin, with stronger insurance take-up of both public and private health insurance since 2010.
• From 2010 to 2017, Minnesota has had stronger overall economic growth (12.8 percent vs. 10.1 percent), stronger growth per worker (3.4 percent vs. 2.7 percent), and stronger population growth (5.1 percent vs. 1.9 percent) than Wisconsin. In fact, over the whole period—as well as in the most recent year—more people have been moving out of Wisconsin to other states than have been moving in from elsewhere in the U.S. The same is not true of Minnesota.

Way more information, with charts, in this longread.  Kudos to my old friend and schoolmate, Mark Dayton.

Photo via Urban Milwaukee.

"They made the choice to stick the needle in their arm, I make the choice not to play God and let 'em die," he wrote, in part.

He’s the man known for teaching the characters from the iconic '90s television show “Boy Meets World” about navigating life’s difficulties.

It sounds simple enough, but there's no consensus about eating cereal: milk first or cereal first?

Melania Trump, nearly 16 months into her tenure as first lady, has at last revealed her formal platform: "Be Best."

Jose Arreola, 49, was sliding a pack of Mentos he purchased into his pocket when the customer behind him unveiled a weapon.

In microblading, a practitioner uses tiny needles to make shallow cuts in and around the eyebrow, which are filled in with ink. It's similar to a tattoo, but it's only semi-permanent. That means it will fade over time, sometimes lasting up to three years, although the results can vary.

The dye placement is meant to mimic individual hairs, so it can make overplucked eyebrows look full and defined. It only takes a quick Google search to find a salon or spa offering the service. But microblading is largely unregulated and carries risks, as Jennifer found out.

The rest of the story is here.

Giuliani said that despite Trump's openness to sit down with the special counsel, he would strongly advise against it.

Northern California detectives still trying to identify the infamous Zodiac Killer who targeted victims in the late 1960s and taunted investigators with letters say they hope to try the same DNA tracing technology recently used to arrest a suspect in another string of cold-case serial slayings - those blamed on the East Area Rapist.

Leave it to Donald Trump to appoint fellow liar-for-profit Dr. Oz -- the David Avocado Wolfe of medicine -- to his administration.

This is a whole different kind of religious delusion.

This is what it looks like when a snowflake melts.

Televangelist Jim Bakker is trying to sell property using the same fictional scare tactics he uses to sell giant buckets of disgusting glop.

That's the question asked by financial analysts at Goldman Sachs.

In an April 10 financial report titled “The Genome Revolution,” company analysts allegedly posed the question “is curing patients a sustainable business model?” The report broke down the pros and cons of new gene therapy treatments being worked on by biotech companies. Turning the search for medical remedies into a numbers game, analyst Salveen Richter called potential “one shot cures” a bad business decision that will hurt a company’s bottom line...

Goldman researchers pointed to pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which developed a treatment for hepatitis C, as an example of the financial impact treating diseases can have on profits. “In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients,” the memo argued.

Offered without comment.

Excerpts from a thought-provoking story:

And then in the second grade we were supposed to learn to read. But for me it was like opening a Chinese newspaper and looking at it - I didn't understand what those lines were, and as a child of six, seven, eight years old I didn't know how to articulate the problem...

By the time I got to the fifth grade I'd basically given up on myself in terms of reading. I got up every day, got dressed, went to school and I was going to war. I hated the classroom. It was a hostile environment and I had to find a way to survive. By the seventh grade I was sitting in the principal's office most of the day. I was in fights, I was defiant, I was a clown, I was a disruptor, I got expelled from school...

I could write my name and there were some words that I could remember, but I couldn't write a sentence - I was in high school and reading at the second or third grade level. And I never told anybody that I couldn't read...

So I graduated from college, and when I graduated there was a teacher shortage and I was offered a job. It was the most illogical thing you can imagine... I taught a lot of different things. I was an athletics coach. I taught social studies. I taught typing - I could copy-type at 65 words a minute but I didn't know what I was typing. I never wrote on a blackboard and there was no printed word in my classroom. We watched a lot of films and had a lot of discussions...

I was reading to our three-year-old daughter. We read to her routinely, but I wasn't really reading, I was making the stories up - stories that I knew, like Goldilocks and The Three Bears, I just added drama to them.

But this was a new book, Rumpelstiltskin, and my daughter said, "You're not reading it like mama." My wife heard me trying to read from a child's book and that was the first time that it dawned on her. I had been asking her to do all this writing for me, helping me write things for school, and then she finally realised, how deep and severe this was...

So one Friday afternoon in my pinstriped suit I walked into the library and asked to see the director of the literacy programme and I sat down with her and I told her I couldn't read. That was the second person in my adult life that I had ever told.

The rest of the story is at the BBC.