This is episode 200 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN), a review of every game published by LJN. This is part 2 of 3, with the final coming next week. The Nerd has been gifted the rights to LJN and will start fixing the company by remaking Back to the Future on NES with a developer friend. Unfortunately, he also has to review every other LJN game to complete the catalog of his new company. Oh, and since he already reviewed the movie based games, he will now tackle the sports and Marvel games!!
One of my first short stories, written when I was 22 or just 23, I proudly showed to two people whose opinions I respected in the Fantasy world, both editors. One said it wasn’t very good. The other told me it was “pretentious twaddle”. I put the story away, and when I thought of it, I felt guilty for having written a story that bad and for ever showing it to people.
Twenty years later I was asked for a story for an anthology, remembered that long-ago buried story and went into the attic and found it in a box of things I was never going to show anyone. I read it, to see if there was anything in the mass of pretentious twaddle that I could use. It wasn’t actually bad at all, which surprised me. It was a typewritten manuscript, so I retyped it, fixing things I needed to fix on the way, but there wasn’t a lot to do.
A new study looks at the finances of 3 million households over the course of a year. It finds significant differences in the standard of living across America.
Target Marathon, June 2019. Image courtesy of Rodney Rogers
One year ago, news began to spread that Target Marathon, also known as Tiny Target, located along U.S. 90 between Alpine and Marathon, had been demolished.
Often referred to as the world’s smallest Target, the installation, which was born from a defunct railroad cinderblock building, popped up anonymously in 2016. Left to deteriorate at the hands of visitors and harsh, desert weather, the building had fallen into disrepair over the years. The property owner reportedly had the structure taken down for fear that visitors might be harmed.
While its creator is still unknown, Target Marathon was seen by many as a response to Elmgreen and Dragset’s Prada Marfa (2005), located right outside Valentine, further west on U.S. 90. Instead of highlighting a luxury brand, the Target Marathon installation focused on a common household name, striking a chord with the everyday person. In contrast to Prada Marfa, which contains products from the brand’s fall 2005 collection and features a locked door, the Marathon store was open and entirely devoid of merchandise.
Target Marathon, August 2020
The retailer’s iconic signage against the barren West Texas landscape was a draw for locals and tourists alike. Many a person sought out a photo op in front of the building, which had an accompanying red shopping cart.
While the structure may no longer exist, the photos and stories surrounding it still live on.
“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed.
Today: Butter
Patrick L. Kelly, Land O Lakes, 2013, Pen ink on vellum, 16 x 18 inches
Robert Gober, Untitled, 1993, Watercolor on vellum and pigmented beeswax, 1 1/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches
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No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also working on that idea. Furthermore, they are using notation very similar to yours. – Bruce J. MacLennan
"Windows Me was unstable, unloved and unusable," remembered Computerworld last year, on the 20th anniversary of its release, calling it "a stink bomb of an operating system."
Windows Me was a ghastly, slapdash piece of work, incompatible with lots of hardware and software. It frequently failed during the installation process — which should have been the first sign for people that this was an operating system they shouldn't try.Often, when you tried to shut it down, it declined to do so, like a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum over being forced to go to sleep. It was slow and insecure. Its web browser, Internet Explorer, frequently refused to load web pages.
But they ultimately argue that it wasn't as bad as Windows Vista, which "simply refused to run, or ran so badly it was useless on countless PCs. Not just old PCs, but even newly bought PCs, right out of the box, with Vista installed." And they conclude that the worst Microsoft OS of all is still Windows 8. ("You want bad? You want stupid? You want an operating system that not only was roundly reviled by consumers and businesses alike, but also set Microsoft's business plans back years?")
Slashdot reader alaskana98 even remembers Windows ME semi-fondly as "the last Microsoft OS to use the Windows 95 codebase."
While rightly being panned as a buggy and crash-prone OS — indeed it was labelled as the worst version of Windows ever released by Computer World — it did introduce a number of features that continue on to this very day. Those features include:
-A personalized start menu that would show your most recently accessed programs, today a common feature in the Windows landscape.
-Software support for DVD playback. Previously one needed a dedicated card to playback DVDs.
-Windows Movie Maker and Windows Media Player 7, allowing home users to create, edit and burn their own digital home movies. While seemingly pedestrian in today's times, these were groundbreaking features for home users in the year 2000.
-The first iteration of System Restore — imagine a modern version of Windows not having the ability to conveniently restore to a working configuration — before Windows ME, this was simply not a possibility for the average home user unless you had a rigorous backup routine.
-The removal of real-mode DOS. While very controversial at the time, this change arguably improved the speed and reliability of the boot process.
Love it or hate it (well, lets face it, if you were a computer user at that point you probably hated it) — Windows ME did make several important contributions to the modern OS landscape that are often overlooked to this day. Do you have any stories from the heady days of late 2000 when Windows ME was first released?
Slashdot reader Z00L00K remembers in a comment that "The removal of real-mode DOS is what REALLY made ME impossible to use for most of us at the time. It broke backwards compatibility so hard that the only way out was to use any of the earlier versions of Windows instead!"
Is this re-awakening images of the year 2000 for anyone? Share your own memories and thoughts in the comments.
What do you remember about Windows ME?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to students at Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland, California, in September. | Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to let Californians sue some firearm manufacturers and sellers.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Saturday that his administration will push for a new measure, modeled after Texas’s controversial abortion ban,to limit the sale of assault weapons and “ghost guns” in the state.
The proposed bill, according to a press release from Newsom, would allow Californians to sue “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts” for damages — the same injunction-skirting mechanism Texas has used to ban all abortions after six weeks, which has so far been permitted by the Supreme Court.
“If that’s the precedent then we’ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets,” Newsom said in a tweet Saturday. “If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives.”
SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?!
If that's the precedent then we'll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets.
If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives. https://t.co/N5Iur9PEUZ
Newsom’s statement comes on the heels of a Friday Supreme Court ruling, which further entrenched Texas’s ability to ban virtually all abortions in the state, despite allowing a suit against Texas state health officials to advance. As Vox’s Ian Millhiser explained:
The upshot of this decision is that, while the abortion provider plaintiffs in Jackson may be able to get a federal court order declaring that SB 8 is unconstitutional, the only real relief they are likely to win is an order preventing a few state health officials from carrying out the minor role they play in enforcing the law. The most important provisions of the law — the ones that effectively prevent anyone from performing an abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy by threatening them with financial ruin if they do so — will most likely remain in effect.
Currently, few details are known about the proposed California legislation other than its enforcement mechanism; according to Newsom’s announcement, plaintiffs suing firearms manufacturers could be awarded at least $10,000, plus attorney’s fees if they win their case. As the LA Times reports, however, the California State Assembly and Attorney General Rob Bonta won’t be able to move on putting together a bill until January 3, when the legislature reconvenes after the holiday break.
Newsom wants to use Texas’s abortion tactics for gun control
SB 8, the law that Newsom references in Saturday’s announcement, hinges on a novel, convoluted enforcement scheme. Though it functionally bans all abortions after a mere six weeks of pregnancy, Texas officials are prohibited from directly enforcing the law, according to its text. Instead, SB 8 is constructed so that an individual — who doesn’t even have to be a Texas resident or have anything to do with the abortion in question — can sue an abortion provider or someone suspected of aiding an abortion performed after the six-week window.
The anti-abortion law, which is before the Supreme Court in a case called Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, presents a maze of procedural complexities that are rarely seen in even the most complicated litigation. The law appears to have been drafted to intentionally frustrate lawsuits challenging its constitutionality. And Texas, with an assist from a right-wing appellate court, has thus far manipulated the litigation process to prevent any judge from considering whether SB 8 is lawful.
Already, SB 8 has resulted in a number of copycat bills. According to Forbes, state legislatures in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Ohio have all introduced similar abortion bans, and even more could be on the way.
The proposed California legislation, however, would be the first measure to use an SB 8-style enforcement mechanism for a different goal. Newsom’s proposal would empower private citizens to sue the manufacturers of assault rifles and so-called ghost guns — firearms made from kits, which are difficult to track because they don’t have serial numbers like those that come from licensed companies and are sold by licensed dealers. Ghost gun kits are sold online, are easy to assemble, require no background check to buy, and are impossible for authorities to trace, as the New York Times’s Annie Karni explained in April.
California’s longstanding ban on assault weapons was overturned by federal district court Judge Robert Benitez in June; the same judge ruled in 2017 against a ban on magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets, and last year blocked a 2019 law requiring background checks for people purchasing ammunition.
Benitez overturned the previous ban on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment, and explicitly pointed to the AR-15’s military utility in his decision. “Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment,” Benitez wrote. “Good for both home and battle.”
As Vox’s Dylan Matthews explained in 2019, the AR-15 “is not a specific model — it gets its name from ArmaLite, the company that originally manufactured the rifle,” but the design is no longer patented.Though the AR-15 was initially designed as a military weapon, it has since become one of the most popular rifles in the US.
At the time, Newsom called Benitez’s ruling “a direct threat to public safety and innocent Californians.”
Newsom’s new tactic — adapting the SB 8 model to gun control — would ostensibly circumvent Benitez’s June ruling, taking enforcement of the law out of the hands of the state and shielding the ban itself from judicial challenge in the same way SB 8’s enforcement mechanism does.
California legislation could be a political win-win for Newsom
In some ways, the proposed legislation could be a no-lose strategy for Newsom, who is running for reelection next year after surviving a recall effort in September. It’s a way for him to take aim at the June ruling overturning the assault rifle ban, and to rebuke the Texas law that infringes on the right to an abortion and presents an alarming subversion of legal and judicial processes.
While Newsom’s proposed bill probably stands a good chance in the California legislature, where Democrats have a supermajority in both chambers, it’s also proof positive of the warning that SB 8 presents a slippery legal precedent, as gun rights group the Firearms Policy Coalition described in an amicus brief in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson.
“To the extent this tactic is effective at evading or outright blocking pre-enforcement review, while still deterring protected behavior, it will easily become the model for suppression of other constitutional rights, with Second Amendment rights being the most likely targets,” the group’s attorney, Erik Jaffe, wrote in the brief.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor echoed that assessment in her dissent to Friday’s ruling, which allows SB 8 to stand while another legal challenge is argued before the Court, saying the Texas law would create a path for other states to “reprise and perfect Texas’ scheme in the future to target the exercise of any right recognized by this court with which they disagree.”
With Newsom’s Saturday announcement, that now appears more likely to come to pass.
“Gov. Newsom is following through on the threat,” UC Berkeley School of Law professor Khiara Bridges told the LA Times. “It’s just been academic up until now.”
As Bridges points out, the proposed bill won’t necessarily succeed. Should it become law and end up before the Supreme Court, it’s still possible judges could strike it down while leaving SB 8’s citizen enforcement mechanism intact.
“I have no doubt whatsoever that the Supreme Court will find some bizarre, disingenuous argument to distinguish gun rights from abortion rights,” Bridges told the Times.
Newsom’s proposal does, however, have the potential to underscore the absurdity of the mechanism behind SB 8, whatever the actual outcome for the gun bill. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote Friday in a minority opinion, “If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery.”
I really appreciated the feedback from Alison about setting boundaries, and some of the higher-ed specific suggestions from the commenters!
The “warm hand-off” suggested by commenter AimeeS was especially helpful:
Yes – handing students a one-pager of resources is all well and good, but they most likely already have one and haven’t used it. What’s really successful is a warm hand-off: “It sounds like you could use some tutoring – Maria is really good. Let me call over and see if she’s available right now.” / ”She is available right now! Let’s walk over together.“ / ”Hi Maria, this is (student). Student was just telling me how (describe issue), and I thought you’d be able to help. I’ll let you take it from here.”
Yes, this is more work, but it’s going to be so much more successful at getting students to those resources than effectively telling them “this is a you problem, not a me problem” and giving them a list of possible resources. It is so much more effective that you should do it most/all of the time, not just when there’s some kind of threat of violence (suicidal ideation, domestic violence, etc.) involved that escalates the issue.
I realized that part of the reason these inappropriate conversations were happening was because I had been making a concerted effort to get to know my students as people, not just as office drones, and possibly opened the floodgates a little more than I intended. I’ve been told I come across as “cold” in the past (I related a lot to this letter writer), so I was really working hard to seem warm and friendly, and apparently I succeeded! I just wasn’t prepared for the unintended result of everyone wanting to share their innermost thoughts throughout the workday. I’ve worked on pulling this back a little, and I think it’s helping. I’m also getting better at discerning when conversation topics are starting to veer away from office appropriate areas and steering them back on course.
That said, I’m cognizant of my mandatory reporter status and I do try to be hyper aware of anything that seems even remotely Title IX adjacent. I’ve also boosted the amount of flyers, business cards, and other paraphernalia about campus services that I keep around the office. I know that in-person discussions are better, but I’d like to cover all my bases.
The other part of the problem was that the quantity of work that I relied on students to do made me anxious about time spent talking and not working. In my experience, and from what I’ve heard from colleagues, my institution relies a little too much on students to fill the gaps in staffing. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be, but it’s one of the unfortunate truths of higher ed. We were lucky to hire another full-time staff member in my department last year, which has helped a lot and I’m no longer constantly worried that every conversation running a little long will contribute to our backlog.
I don’t have any of the same students now that I did at the time of writing (I work primarily with graduate students in a 2-year program, so they rotate through pretty fast), but we seem to have found a good balance. Conversations have been mostly about homework, sports, and food lately, although I did “warm hand-off” a student to the faculty supervisor of their relevant affinity group earlier this year.
I appreciate all of the thoughtful comments and advice. Commenter Tupac Coachella had a phrasing recommendation that I thought got at the key point I’d like to make with my students: “Everyone here at College wants you to be successful, but we all serve different roles in that success. As your supervisor, a big part of my role is to help you learn about the working world. I’ve noticed that we’ve formed some habits around personal disclosure that may not serve you well when you’re out in the professional workforce. Let’s talk about what’s appropriate in the workplace, and where you can get help on campus for the things that aren’t appropriate to bring to coworkers or supervisors.”
I genuinely do want my students to be successful and hope that their job in my office is a useful step on their way. I hope I can continue to improve how I can be part of a good learning experience for the working world!
A couple of years ago, someone shared what I consider to be the best holiday date story of all time, and it must be shared here again. Enjoy:
When I was fresh out of college, a dude in my social circle invited me to his fancy work Christmas party. He was a teacher, so I’d kind of assumed I was there as friend to act as a buffer between well-intentioned female colleagues who wanted to set him up with one another, with their daughters, etc. I was wrong! This invitation to a work Christmas party was meant to be the first date of a magical relationship between two people destined to be together. Why a magical relationship? When I opened the door, he said he’d hope we’d have a magical night leading to a magical relationship. Then HE DID A MAGIC TRICK. I was… startled.
The party was at a country club, where he drove around and around looking for a space while I said “they have valet. it’s only valet” over and over. Inside there was a coat check. He didn’t want to leave his coat–because there were additional magic tricks secreted inside. We went in, got our drink tickets and our seating assignment. I sat down at a table that was mostly single women several years older than we were. He offered to get me a drink, and I asked for a glass of any kind of wine. He came back several minutes later with a mudslide because girls love mudslides, because they’re chocolate and girls love chocolate. I don’t. But he tried! That’s sweet! Right? Over dinner, I tried to make that sort of general polite conversation people make around banquet tables with strangers. He kept jostling my arm to get my attention to show me another magic trick.
At the beginning of the evening, I really thought we were casual friends, but I was single and kind of open to dating this guy if we got on well. Maybe that hokey line was a story we’d tell our grandchildren! But it was becoming increasingly clear that this guy was Not for Me. That didn’t mean I wanted to embarrass him in front of his principal, though. I finally said something like, Would you mind terribly saving those for after dinner? I’m really interested in hearing more about Harriet’s begonias, aren’t you?”
He pushed his chair back and stalked across the ballroom to a piano. He plopped down and proceeded to pound out an assortment of sad pop hits. There was Muzak-y Christmas music, but he was gonna play the piano anyway. At this point, I was embarrassed to have come with this guy. My tablemates were embarrassed for me. One of them left and came back with the glass of wine I’d asked for initially. I drank it while the middle aged ladies at our table told me all about their various bad dates. More wine showed up. Then someone asked if I like martinis and brought a martini. Apparently none of them drank, and, as my date played “You’re So Vain” while staring mournfully at me, I drank my way through pretty much all their drink tickets. I am an effusively nice drunk person. I told each and every one of these women that they were beautiful angels shaping tomorrow’s great minds to recognize the power of sisterhood and human kindness. Or something to that general effect. My memory is a bit fuzzy, for obvious, gin-based reasons.
My date wanted to leave, so I went to coat check. I tipped the coat check person, and he reached in the tip jar to fish out my money. I thought he was going to pay the tip. Nope. He told me coat check is free. I said I know. I put my tip back in the jar and sidestepped him when he tried to help with my jacket. His department chair and her husband appeared and said that my apartment was on their way and they’d be happy to drive me. I told them they were “hashtag relationship goals” and made an actual hashtag with my fingers.
I was driven home by way of Taco Bell by these very nice strangers. A week later, the guy called to say his work friends loved me and would I like to go out again. I would not.
A few years later, a friend was telling me about a legendary party her school hosted before she got a job there. A girl nobody knew got plastered and told everyone she loved and appreciated them while her boyfriend played the piano at her and drowned out the Christmas music. I did not reveal my identity. Maybe there’re two of us? I hope there’re two of us.
It’s the final round of the Worst Boss of 2020 voting. We’ve narrowed the pool from 12 nominees to two (see results from the first round and second round). The two finalists go head-to-head below.
Voting closes at 11:59 pm ET on Tuesday.
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It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past.
We have so many updates this year that I’m going to be posting six to seven times a day for the next several weeks — so keep checking back throughout the entire day.
Thank you so much for publishing my letter. Your advice was the final push I needed to report – I think I already knew I had to, but I had a lot of complicated feelings to work through before I could make that decision. I especially appreciated the reminder that he’s likely to have been on his best behaviour around me but wouldn’t necessarily treat junior employees with respect. We have several young women in the office and I put myself in their shoes – if it had happened to me in my early twenties – I would have been even more afraid of not being believed/being labelled a troublemaker/”ruining” things, etc… It was much easier to make a decision when I was thinking about them and not what I felt I could live with.
I told my boss on Tuesday (same day the letter was published) and he thanked me and told me he’d take care of it. Later that night, I was at a conference event that my senior leadership was also attending. My boss had let them know the situation and the CEO of my org made a point to sit with me and let me know that I would be protected no matter what the investigation turned up. They are going to pull the IT logs from that day and go from there. He also thanked me for bringing it forward. I feel so much better now that this isn’t nagging at me, and I’m happy with my leadership’s response.
I also wanted to call out some of the specific comments and commenters whose perspective was particularly kind and useful:
@simply the best – I appreciate that someone tried to understand my concern about operations – it is a pivotal time and the individual is driving a critical important improvement initiative. I understand that if he leaves this will push this improvement back and there are a lot of other people/departments depending on it and could impact their ability to hit targets. On reflection, I know this isn’t a good enough reason to not report, even if there’s a chance that I was wrong and run the risk of this guy doing it again, but it was one of the things that was making it hard for me to make the decision.
@throwawayworkday – Thank you for your story about your father, and I’m sorry that happened to you. Another reason I hesitated was that I wasn’t 100% sure and the guy has a disabled wife and kids at home. If he got fired, they would also suffer. You’re right though – that’s on him, not me.
@Library Lady – your write up about trusting my gut was exactly what I needed.
Thanks again to everyone who commented. I’ll update again when there’s final action!
For years now, we've been highlighting how book publishers are at war with libraries, and see ebooks and ebook pricing as a key lever in that war. With regular books, a library can just buy the book and lend it out and do what they want with it. But not ebooks. Because of a broken copyright law, publishers retain excess control over ebooks, and they lord that over libraries, arbitrarily raising prices to ridiculous levels, limiting how many times they can lend it out before they have to "repurchase" the ebook, and generally making it as difficult as possible for libraries to actually be able to offer ebooks.
This is because of a broken copyright system that gives publishers way more control over ebooks than traditional hardcopy books. And book publishers have spent the past decade abusing that power. In an ideal world, Congress would get its act together and fix copyright law and properly add first sale rights for digital goods like ebooks. But, without that, some states are trying to step in and fix things, including Maryland, which earlier this year passed a law that would require publishers to sell ebooks to libraries at "reasonable" rates.
With the law set to go into effect next year, helping more Maryland residents get access to ebooks in the midst of a still ongoing pandemic, the book publishers have continued their Grinch-like ways, and sued to block the law. The complaint says that this is an attempt by state law to route around federal copyright law, and since the 1976 Copyright Act, state copyright laws are pre-empted by federal law.
The complaint spews a lot of nonsense and propaganda about "the importance of copyright" to "the ultimate benefit of the public" which is laughable -- especially coming from book publishers who have gone out of their way to use copyright to fuck over the public. But, as ridiculous as it is from a societal level, the publisher's reading of the 1976 Act might convince a court. It is true that the 1976 act says that states can't pre-empt federal copyright law, so the publisher's argument is that this law is a route around that.
I assume that Maryland will argue, forcefully, that this is not a copyright law or an attempt to route around federal copyright law, but rather something else entirely. Indeed, as some have noticed, the Maryland law is deliberately "modest." It only says that if a publisher is already offering ebooks, it also has to make sure it will sell to libraries at a reasonable price. It's not forcing publishers to offer ebooks at all -- just make sure that the publishers can't treat consumers and libraries differently. And, as the libraries argued in the runup to this bill passing, there is historical evidence that a law that only impacts contracting does not impede on copyright:
First, the bills are not preempted by federal copyright law. The AAP cites section 301 of the
U.S. Copyright Act as authority for its argument that federal copyright law preempts the bills. In
fact, section 301 was adopted by Congress in 1976 to preempt state copyright laws—laws that
created rights that are “equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of
copyright.” Courts around the country have repeatedly held that section 301 does not preempt
state laws relating to contracts because contract rights are not “equivalent” to the exclusive rights
of copyright. Central to those courts’ analysis is that the existence of a contract constituted an
“extra element” not present in copyright law. Because the bills regulate license terms, they are
completely outside the scope of section 301. It should be noted that 21 years ago, Maryland
adopted the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (“UCITA”), which regulates
licenses for copyrighted works such as software and databases. Publishers strongly supported the
adoption of UCITA, and did not argue that its regulation of licenses was preempted by section
301 of the Copyright Act.
Realistically speaking, this is just the book publishers, once again, attacking libraries and the public, and using copyright as their weapon to do so. It's shameful behavior, but the underlying problem is our copyright laws, and the belief instilled in copyright abusers like the publishers, that it lets them control everything, even after they've sold something. The answer is to fix our copyright laws wholesale. If the copyright laws weren't so broken in the first place, we wouldn't need states like Maryland stepping in to try to fix situations like how publishers rip off libraries (and the public with it).
Although the Supreme Court ruling allows the lawsuit to proceed in federal court, attorneys for Whole Woman's Health said the justices' decision narrows their legal avenues to blocking the law.
Holiday Season Cookbook
Favorite Recipes Press
1981
As we start head into the holiday season, you will obviously need to step up your cooking game. This book is here to lead the way. This book contains all those lovely recipes from your favorite Home Ec teachers from high school. From what I can remember, I am not sure I would trust my home ec teacher to have something to contribute. After reading these recipes, I think we can assume that most of the home ec teachers aren’t necessarily going to win any cooking prizes.
Be sure to read the recipe for the Sauerkraut Ball. That recipe just says party. I am also concerned since I couldn’t tell if the recipes on the pages were actually represented in the photo. Maybe I really don’t want to know. The recipe for the Scandinavian Canape squares has the potential to cause an international incident as Norway, Denmark, and Sweden battle over which Scandinavian country was insulted with that recipe. My Swedish grandmother is rolling in her grave over that recipe being associated with her culture.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.
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