Sending a security deposit back to a couple that broke their lease to move to Colorado to be close to their parents. Kind of sad, they applied for a place a couple years ago, didn't get it, finally got a unit in February, were overjoyed with it, and then had to leave.
Uncle Ben's rice. My mom used to buy it religiously, complaining that other brands of rice were too sticky and clumpy. I always wondered as a kid who the heck Uncle Ben really was...
Some states/locations also created different titles for black lawyers for the same reason - a white guy like me would be Mr. NABear, but a black man would be called "Attorney NABear" or just "NABear" with no honorific all to avoid suggesting equality.
In _The Warmth of Other Suns_, Isabel Wilkerson talks about Black parents starting to pick names like Queen, because if white people refused to use honorifics, their children still had a title in their name.
It was quick and convenient at a time when that was all the rage. It is par-boiled and as a result comes out with distinct pieces (rather than clumps) but also has almost no texture and little flavor compared with less processed products. I grew up with it, but it would be just about my last choice today (if I had to go with something par-boiled I'd at least want to use one of the wild rice blends with some flavor to it).
we flip flop in my family. some days it's the regular korean short grain white rice, other days it the multigrain rice, and then others, it's jasmine rice.
3 giant bags of Jasmine, California medium grain (Nishiki), Basmati (must be Indian), and one small bag of Japanese short grain sushi rice. I'll buy arborio once a decade and then I'll remember that it's better to pay someone to make risotto. Indian basmati has more stringent labelling restrictions as it can't be labelled as such unless it has been aged. If you go to India, there are these warehouse with no windows and then plaster the doors shut with mud. Those are basmati warehouses.
Make Risotto balls. Take some risotto and make a smaller than golf ball size ball. Stuff a small cube of Fontina in the middle and then roll it in breadcrumbs or panko. Deep fry for melted goodness.
May have told my Uncle Ben's story on DBD before, but if not...
The wife & I went to the US Open in 2000 @ Pebble Beach. Tiger was at the height of his power and a few days later he would go on to smash the record for stroke lead. We drove down from SF two days early to enjoy an extended weekend getaway, starting in Carmel to go pick through the antique, art, and bric a brac stores that line the quaint tree-lined streets.
And everything there is kinda salt-eaten, half-assed because the tourists will come regardless, and crazy expensive. We stayed at a moldy motor lodge and still had our wallets throttled.
The cherry on the sundae was going out to some snooty French restaurant. White table cloth, French staff... can't remember the name, but it was the highest rated restaurant in town at the time. We start to eat and it is kinda shitty, despite being crazy 5-star expensive.
We call over the waiter, who starts walking over. Meanwhile, I'm pushing around the rice around. It's flavorless, dry, has no texture, and doesn't stick. As a way of soft-peddling my displeasure with the whole meal, I focus on the rice rather than the whole meal. "Uh, something is not right with this rice. Is it supposed to be this way?", I ask. He takes my plate.
He leaves, asks the chef, and then comes back with my plate. With cartoon like accent and arrogance, he sniffs "zee lrlrice is supposed to be zat lwrlway. Ziss eez zee normál lrlrice. Iss zee Ouncle Benz."
Hence, we say "ziss eez zee normál lrlrice" for anything subpar sold at a premium.
I've had it once, only because it was left behind by a collaborator who had stayed at the house that our collaboration used as a dorm. I thought it was convenient and tasted fine.
I was supposed to go to Columbus for a wedding at the end of March. They postponed to August (though I was skeptical that it would feel safe to travel and congregate by then), but last week, the venue announced that they were going out of business. My friend is probably not getting his deposit back.
Rural areas consider BLM to be "the problems of other people from other places." And herein lies the crux of the issue. We have our way of life and we don't want it disturbed, we don't want to change, and most of all, we don't want outsiders.
I don't think it's just a rural-urban divide. You have the Central Park Karen and the SF Karen, too.
At work, my (white) director acknowledged his privilege and ascribed it to growing up in an upper middle class family and having the opportunity to get an education. One of my few Black coworkers pointed out, "I'm from an upper middle class family and got an education, too."
I think that all the reasons many of us are uncomfortable talking about race have pushed us to talk about socioeconomic class instead, but that means we're not addressing the problem.
I didn't mean to implicate every aspect of this as rural-urban. I was speaking specifically to those willing to take up arms in counter-protest. From what I can gather, that is largely a rural problem that has not existed because these protests never occurred in white rural areas in the past. True, there may be counter-protester zealots that will hit the urban protests, but as the article illustrates, when the protests come to the rural areas, the locals perceive a more immediate, though unjustified threat and people who normally would not be politically agitated are now coming with guns to counter protest when they otherwise would not.
I'm not uncomfortable discussing race, but socioeconomic class IS a big chunk of the problem. When I was younger, there were many times we were actually poor, my gf (future wife) went on food stamps once, but I never ever thought of myself as poor, because I grew up middle class, and if I ever really needed to, I could have asked my dad to bail me out (never did, too proud), if you don't come from that background, it completely changes how you interact with the world.
Watching a survival reality show on Hulu called Alone...not a reality show guy, nor a survivalist, as camping for me is the Lair, and roughing it is Oxford, MS...but it's interesting, and axes play crucial roles as 1 of the 10 items that the contestants are able to bring. Check it out.
A huge percentage of US law (civil, criminal, national, state and local) is about following procedures (i.e. adequately documenting process/basis for conduct). We base relatively little on substantive questions in part because for lawyers/judges that starts feeling like we actually are making policy determinations - and we get trained that's not our job (even though our preferred outcomes almost always shape our views of whether the procedures were adequately followed).
"The Justice Department sought an emergency order on Wednesday night from a judge to block the publication of the book. This follows a civil suit that was filed against Bolton on Tuesday, asking a court to seize his profits from the book and to force him to delay its scheduled June 23 release. Experts say that trying to formally enjoin publication is unlikely to succeed as a legal strategy, but that Bolton could ultimately be forced to turn over proceeds from the book to the government."
I think this Streisanding - giving the book more attention, and pretty fucking dumb. Which is par for them.
I agree. If they had ignored it, the only media response would have been something like: "Bolton wrote a book about what he refused to testify to congress about"
I agree. I wonder what's going on in their deliberations? Now that Scalia is gone, with his 'I don't like it, let me make up a reason that sounds judicial' position on everything, perhaps the more conservative members are starting to think for themselves.
My very quick skim is that this was a bit like Roberts on ACÁ: restricting an opinion to the narrow issue. With ACÁ that meant he only changed the penalties for mandate, because that was the part in question. For DACA, I’m reading that he’s not contesting that the government can undo it, just that they did so in a bad faith and illegally indefensible way. This is not over.
I've been saying, my read on Roberts is that his philosophy is small-c conservative. He doesn't want to rock the boat too much, believes in only small incremental changes. He also seems to care a lot about procedure.
What seems to have shifted for Roberts is without Kennedy as cover he has to be the true swing vote more often - and he doesn't want to do anything that hurts either the Court or the long term prospects of the GOP like kicking 30 million people off healthcare or opening 700k Dreamers to deportation. At the same time he also likes to think he's cleverly limiting the power of government when he does - ACA cases muddled Congress' powers, Title VII case preserves using religion as a basis to cancel out these protections (and maybe poses risks for affirmative action), DACA ruling suggests all administrations will have policy basis for executive action scrutinized to some degree.
Alpha! Time to retire “Ole Miss” from the helmets, jerseys, publications, websites, alumni events, etc.? Momentum, my friend!
How can I help?
Sending a security deposit back to a couple that broke their lease to move to Colorado to be close to their parents. Kind of sad, they applied for a place a couple years ago, didn't get it, finally got a unit in February, were overjoyed with it, and then had to leave.
well that's a drag. Hope everything works out for them.
:/
Elsewhere in college
Leach Bowl: Wazzu/MISS St. home & home announced for '30 & '31. Will be first time Wazzu plays an SEC school at home.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/leach-bowl-is-on-as-mississippi-state-washington-state-announce-future-home-and-home/ar-BB15D0jL
Leach will have been long fired by then. He'll be Gundy's OC in the Trump-owned XFL.
Isn't the XFL bankrupt already? COVID shut their first season short and so they missed all revenue goals IIRC.
XFL's been bankrupt a few times...we're talking, like, the 4th incarnation
It needs to come back just so that bad Arnold movie, The Sixth Day, with the XFL scene will ring true.
By the way, IF Trump owns any football league, there is no way that it's not called Trump Football League.
How has Leach not created a media sh*tstorm during this time of protest and lockdown?
They took his phone away
Actually all of these brands are getting the AXE!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/with-aunt-jemima-and-uncle-ben-poised-to-disappear-from-american-kitchens-a-look-back-at-their-racist-origins-2020-06-17
Where?
Right in the neck!
Uncle Ben's rice. My mom used to buy it religiously, complaining that other brands of rice were too sticky and clumpy. I always wondered as a kid who the heck Uncle Ben really was...
"Black men were often referred to as “boy” or “uncle” to avoid calling them “Mr.” during the Jim Crow era."
TIL, knew about "boy" (obviously) but never had heard about "Uncle"
Some states/locations also created different titles for black lawyers for the same reason - a white guy like me would be Mr. NABear, but a black man would be called "Attorney NABear" or just "NABear" with no honorific all to avoid suggesting equality.
That must be why it's not Mr. Tom's Cabin.
In _The Warmth of Other Suns_, Isabel Wilkerson talks about Black parents starting to pick names like Queen, because if white people refused to use honorifics, their children still had a title in their name.
It was the best brand on the market, which is why it sold so well.
It was quick and convenient at a time when that was all the rage. It is par-boiled and as a result comes out with distinct pieces (rather than clumps) but also has almost no texture and little flavor compared with less processed products. I grew up with it, but it would be just about my last choice today (if I had to go with something par-boiled I'd at least want to use one of the wild rice blends with some flavor to it).
I never thought to buy small boxes of rice, because we always had the big bag like a good Asian family.
(Well, half Asian in my case, but my mom did all the cooking so that's what we ate.)
we flip flop in my family. some days it's the regular korean short grain white rice, other days it the multigrain rice, and then others, it's jasmine rice.
Giant bag of Royal Basmati for us.
I buy large bags of Nishiki rice. Love that rice.
I buy 5lb bags of calrose, or brown calrose typically.
During the pandemic I ended up getting a huge bag of Calrose from Costco. Can't remember exactly how large. maybe 25-30 lb.
My preference these days is Jasmine rice, which is usually sold as a Thai variety.
Jasmine is good as well for fried rice. I like the medium grain rice for everyday eating.
3 giant bags of Jasmine, California medium grain (Nishiki), Basmati (must be Indian), and one small bag of Japanese short grain sushi rice. I'll buy arborio once a decade and then I'll remember that it's better to pay someone to make risotto. Indian basmati has more stringent labelling restrictions as it can't be labelled as such unless it has been aged. If you go to India, there are these warehouse with no windows and then plaster the doors shut with mud. Those are basmati warehouses.
My wife makes excellent Risotto - love it, but it's never as good the next day as a leftover.
Make Risotto balls. Take some risotto and make a smaller than golf ball size ball. Stuff a small cube of Fontina in the middle and then roll it in breadcrumbs or panko. Deep fry for melted goodness.
You win.
I don't think I've ever had Uncle Ben's.
I've had it once as a kid 'cause I was like, I wonder what wypipo rice tastes like, so I bought a box. It was bad.
I haven't either.
FET
May have told my Uncle Ben's story on DBD before, but if not...
The wife & I went to the US Open in 2000 @ Pebble Beach. Tiger was at the height of his power and a few days later he would go on to smash the record for stroke lead. We drove down from SF two days early to enjoy an extended weekend getaway, starting in Carmel to go pick through the antique, art, and bric a brac stores that line the quaint tree-lined streets.
And everything there is kinda salt-eaten, half-assed because the tourists will come regardless, and crazy expensive. We stayed at a moldy motor lodge and still had our wallets throttled.
The cherry on the sundae was going out to some snooty French restaurant. White table cloth, French staff... can't remember the name, but it was the highest rated restaurant in town at the time. We start to eat and it is kinda shitty, despite being crazy 5-star expensive.
We call over the waiter, who starts walking over. Meanwhile, I'm pushing around the rice around. It's flavorless, dry, has no texture, and doesn't stick. As a way of soft-peddling my displeasure with the whole meal, I focus on the rice rather than the whole meal. "Uh, something is not right with this rice. Is it supposed to be this way?", I ask. He takes my plate.
He leaves, asks the chef, and then comes back with my plate. With cartoon like accent and arrogance, he sniffs "zee lrlrice is supposed to be zat lwrlway. Ziss eez zee normál lrlrice. Iss zee Ouncle Benz."
Hence, we say "ziss eez zee normál lrlrice" for anything subpar sold at a premium.
I'm a bit shocked that they would even admit that that's Uncle Ben rice.
oh my heavens. There is decent rice grown within 100 miles of Carmel, why get the uncle's all the way from Alabama (or wherever it's from)?
I've had it once, only because it was left behind by a collaborator who had stayed at the house that our collaboration used as a dorm. I thought it was convenient and tasted fine.
I think I must have, but never bought it.
I buy Mahatma these days in a bag...
Ohio today
TIL that there's a Berkeley in MO.
I was supposed to go to Columbus for a wedding at the end of March. They postponed to August (though I was skeptical that it would feel safe to travel and congregate by then), but last week, the venue announced that they were going out of business. My friend is probably not getting his deposit back.
Well that sucks
Rural areas consider BLM to be "the problems of other people from other places." And herein lies the crux of the issue. We have our way of life and we don't want it disturbed, we don't want to change, and most of all, we don't want outsiders.
I don't think it's just a rural-urban divide. You have the Central Park Karen and the SF Karen, too.
At work, my (white) director acknowledged his privilege and ascribed it to growing up in an upper middle class family and having the opportunity to get an education. One of my few Black coworkers pointed out, "I'm from an upper middle class family and got an education, too."
I think that all the reasons many of us are uncomfortable talking about race have pushed us to talk about socioeconomic class instead, but that means we're not addressing the problem.
I didn't mean to implicate every aspect of this as rural-urban. I was speaking specifically to those willing to take up arms in counter-protest. From what I can gather, that is largely a rural problem that has not existed because these protests never occurred in white rural areas in the past. True, there may be counter-protester zealots that will hit the urban protests, but as the article illustrates, when the protests come to the rural areas, the locals perceive a more immediate, though unjustified threat and people who normally would not be politically agitated are now coming with guns to counter protest when they otherwise would not.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification
I'm not uncomfortable discussing race, but socioeconomic class IS a big chunk of the problem. When I was younger, there were many times we were actually poor, my gf (future wife) went on food stamps once, but I never ever thought of myself as poor, because I grew up middle class, and if I ever really needed to, I could have asked my dad to bail me out (never did, too proud), if you don't come from that background, it completely changes how you interact with the world.
Interesting article
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/17/bethel-ohio-protests-black-lives-matter-meets-small-town-america/3207842001/
Also from Bethel: https://twitter.com/rywriggs/status/1272353892165132288
I don't miss the midwest at all.
This is happening in rural places on the West Coast, too.
Cream of Wheat
I didn't know about the history of CoW's brand icon
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/business/cream-of-wheat-racist-brands/index.html
Didn’t know there were any more Sambo’s left until so recently
Off-topic: did you mean to change your username here to your email?
No! Don’t know how that happened??
Was able to fix it though. Strange. Maybe a pbtc problem
Speaking of Sambo's. I vividly remember their breakfast menu and wall art, which probably be a target for arson under current conditions.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pancakes-and-pickaninnies-the-saga-of-sambos-the-racist-restaurant-chain-america-once-loved
My mother read us the story long ago. My sister and I were excited to eat at the restaurant. But the older we got, the stranger it seemed.
Axe
Watching a survival reality show on Hulu called Alone...not a reality show guy, nor a survivalist, as camping for me is the Lair, and roughing it is Oxford, MS...but it's interesting, and axes play crucial roles as 1 of the 10 items that the contestants are able to bring. Check it out.
We've got it!
2nd & 10 at STAN 16
(1:19 - 4th) Chase Garbers 16 Yd Run (Greg Thomas Kick)
And I just went to watch the highlights again.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
i didnt realize that the official court case for the DACA stuff was
>> Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California <<
apparently it was more of a paperwork issue than an amazing ruling
"In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the administration’s paperwork was insufficient, keeping the program alive for now."
A huge percentage of US law (civil, criminal, national, state and local) is about following procedures (i.e. adequately documenting process/basis for conduct). We base relatively little on substantive questions in part because for lawyers/judges that starts feeling like we actually are making policy determinations - and we get trained that's not our job (even though our preferred outcomes almost always shape our views of whether the procedures were adequately followed).
Move than just paperwork, they didn't follow any of the necessary procedures.
He never ceases to amaze.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/18/now-that-he-knows-it-exists-trump-claims-he-made-juneteenth-very-famous/
There are some people like Pritzker who I never would have heard of, except that Trump Tweets an insult about them.
Well he has done more for the black community than any other President...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) attacks Justice Roberts for not being partisan enough.
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1273653303830773760
Maybe he should call out the troops
Cotton is the worst, I hate that asshole.
sounds like he's trying to run for president...
He will be.
'murica...fuck yeah...
"The Justice Department sought an emergency order on Wednesday night from a judge to block the publication of the book. This follows a civil suit that was filed against Bolton on Tuesday, asking a court to seize his profits from the book and to force him to delay its scheduled June 23 release. Experts say that trying to formally enjoin publication is unlikely to succeed as a legal strategy, but that Bolton could ultimately be forced to turn over proceeds from the book to the government."
I think this Streisanding - giving the book more attention, and pretty fucking dumb. Which is par for them.
I agree. If they had ignored it, the only media response would have been something like: "Bolton wrote a book about what he refused to testify to congress about"
Trump administration: we’re canceling DACA
Supreme Court: not like that you’re not.
It’s impressive that they keep failing to use the tools at their disposal to deliver for the base on a competence basis.
They're morons! Of course not!
A legal type opines similarly
https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1273623457457209344?s=21
Polling suggests the base is a minority on this question
https://twitter.com/amyewalter/status/1273620379572080641?s=21
Yeah, SCOTUS may be saving the Republican Party from themselves on this one.
I agree. I wonder what's going on in their deliberations? Now that Scalia is gone, with his 'I don't like it, let me make up a reason that sounds judicial' position on everything, perhaps the more conservative members are starting to think for themselves.
My very quick skim is that this was a bit like Roberts on ACÁ: restricting an opinion to the narrow issue. With ACÁ that meant he only changed the penalties for mandate, because that was the part in question. For DACA, I’m reading that he’s not contesting that the government can undo it, just that they did so in a bad faith and illegally indefensible way. This is not over.
I've been saying, my read on Roberts is that his philosophy is small-c conservative. He doesn't want to rock the boat too much, believes in only small incremental changes. He also seems to care a lot about procedure.
He also really cares about the perception of the court's political bias.
Right, but my point is that would not have held Scalia back, and they seemed to defer to his reasoning (or lack of).
What seems to have shifted for Roberts is without Kennedy as cover he has to be the true swing vote more often - and he doesn't want to do anything that hurts either the Court or the long term prospects of the GOP like kicking 30 million people off healthcare or opening 700k Dreamers to deportation. At the same time he also likes to think he's cleverly limiting the power of government when he does - ACA cases muddled Congress' powers, Title VII case preserves using religion as a basis to cancel out these protections (and maybe poses risks for affirmative action), DACA ruling suggests all administrations will have policy basis for executive action scrutinized to some degree.
Not Alito or Thomas.
Thomas has always been of the 'what's the most awful position? that's mine.' approach.
I mean, SCOTUS is a position for life. I don't think most of them are willing to give up their principles for the favor of one presidency.
That's exactly why it was set up that way, to somewhat insulate it from the politics of the moment.
In theory, yes.
100%
PRO
The Oakland Angry Birds A's
https://twitter.com/trevorplouffe/status/1273417834979188736
CAL
GO BEARS!
BB wallpaper
https://twitter.com/CalWBBall/status/1273269166825504773
Also: yellow?