INGREDIENTS one big bunch of asparagus half cup chopped basil half cup chopped flat parsley olive oil one tablespoon butter one cup diced sweet onion one cup dry white wine one quart stock (chicken or vegetable), diluted 1:1 with asparagus water to make two quarts two cups vialone nano rice (or arborio or carnaroli) fresh-ground …

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Reading every word of a PhD thesis is ridiculous. The point of the thesis is that it forces the student to survey the entire range of the literature and place their own scientific work in a much broader context than is possible with a peer-reviewed publication. If the student did good publishable work in the …

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This flour/glitter “bombing” shitte is totally battery, and I don’t understand why the police didn’t prosecute this case even though Kardashian supposedly didn’t want to “press charges” (which is legally meaningless, anyway). There must have been numerous witnesses to the crime, and unless these assholes doing this shitte suffer consequences, itte’s just going to escalate. …

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What the fucken fucke is uppe with all these deranged right-wing fuckeuppes and their “Obama is an Alinskyite” gibberish? Seriously, who the fucke is Alinsky and why does he frighten the pig people so much? Is it because his name sounds all like he’s totally a dirty jew or something? I’m a pretty hard-core liberal, …

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Tenured Radical has a very interesting and heartwarming post up concerning the formative experiences she had in college that set her on the professional academic trajectory that has led her to where she is now. Her tale is eerily parallel to my own. I was a fuckeuppe my freshman year, ended it with a 1.58 …

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I was on a NYC Transit subway train this morning–on my way to a regular train station to make a specific regular train leaving at a particular time–and we were stopped at a station a bit longer than usual, and then the conductor got on the PA and said, “We are stopped at this station …

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INGREDIENTS one large radicchio, cored and rough chopped one large garlic clove, finely diced one half cup diced onion one cup cubed smoked mootz olive oil salt and fresh-ground black pepper one quart chicken stock diluted 1:1 to make two quarts broth two cups arborio or carnaroli rice half cup port one cup dry red …

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I gotte a fuckeloade of writing done today: one letter of reference and a complete mark-up of one of my post-doc’s manuscripts!!!! Now it’s time to drinke some motherfucken booze and to cooke some motherfucken pasta!!!!