Neanderpundit

I have added bay leaves to recipes for years. Now I find out that they use them to cut down on the gas in gassy food.

Sons of bitches.

All those good farts that never were. It’s like finding out that you were adopted and your real parents were John Wayne and Audrey Hepburn.

That there seem to be two kinds of hatred in this world. There is the hatred of your opponent, those people that are at their core so unlike you in almost every way you cannot fathom their ideology, and it is repugnant to you. Muslims to Christians, for instance. Democrats to Republicans. These people, sometimes, despite their differences, can coexist.

The other hatred, and this seems to be the unforgiveable one, is the hatred you have for people very much like you, but who act as funhouse mirrors to your secret faults, amplifying them back to you. I think you know what I mean. The people you hate because they are so much like you at your worst or weakest.

thoughts?