Check this motherfucker out: Somehow, I never saw this before it was pointed out to me yesterday.

Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage. According to a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court, the passenger, Hussain Al Khawahir initially told customs officers that he brought the pressure cooker for a …

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Happy Mothers’ Day, maybe — the U.S. is one of the worst places in the industrialized world to be a mother. That is, at least, according to a report published earlier this week by Save The Children. The NGO based its index on “the lifetime risk of maternal death, the under-five mortality rate, years of …

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INGREDIENTS one cup chopped white onion six chopped garlic cloves red pepper flakes black pepper salt chopped tarragon half cup dry white wine large can crushed tomatoes (these were from New Jersey) third of a cup heavy cream olive oil parmigiano reggiano Sautee the onions and garlic with red and black pepper until they are …

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INGREDIENTS one pound shrimp half pound farfalle fucketonne chopped garlic red chile pepper flakes dried thyme black pepper half cup dry white wine one cup clam juice chopped cilantro olive oil parmigiano reggiano Sautee the shrimp until they are just barely cooked, remove from pan, and reserve. Sautee the garlic with red and black pepper …

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If you are crowdsourcing your science and relying on open Internet peer review to justify your science, then random douchebagges on the Internet *are* your peer reviewers. Reacting to them–even the douchey ones–like they are ignorant morons to be condescendingly beaten into submission with ad hominem arguments and accusations of bad faith is fucken stupid …

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Does it mean jacke fucken dicke other than “better and more expensive” when a cheese is branded “reserve”? Which is not meant as a complaint, because I am eating a fucken “gruyere reserve” right now that is blowing my fucken mind and it was expensive.

“Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?” Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us, levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. …

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