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This very simple whipped cream dessert is also a great way to use up stale Easter (or Christmas) bread.

Using a modern computer to type retro code from old books and magazines opens up several possibilities for preflighting the code. This is a summary of what I do, along with two utilities to help when typing duplicative code.

In this sestercentennial year, here’s a great triple-celebration pie. It’s from about 1876 and it can fill in for both Pi Day and St. Patrick’s Day!

There’s nothing wrong with The New Colossus except the way the institutional left has twisted it into meaning the opposite of what it actually says. Emma Lazarus wrote The New Colossus for the exiles of government-sponsored terror to escape their persecutors to a land of Freedom, not for letting their persecutors in to continue the persecution here.

Community cookbooks often call for brand name products and tools. That can provide a lower bound for what year a book was published, but rarely an upper bound.

We have chained time in our kitchens. Our refrigerators stop time from destroying food, and our ovens lash it to the oars for baking. And we have forgotten that it was ever any other way.

The Order of the Astronomers is an example of what might happen when player characters delve into the wilderness, discover lost ruins, and encounter monsters, traps, and fantastic adventure!

Follow the adventures of Sam Stevens, Gralen Noslen, Will Stratford, and Charlotte Kordé as they delve into the abandoned castle of the Order of the Astronomers. Start here if you’re new to the game or to role-playing games in general.

“The comparison between the tactics of the Nazi storm troopers and our modern Antifa thugs is apt. It illustrates the time we now live in… the same unwillingness of decent Germans to believe the Nazis were a threat is the same unwillingness of too many modern Americans to believe the same thing about Antifa and the Democratic Party. Worse, we now have a large minority of Americans who support this violent behavior. To them, violence is wholly justified against those who disagree with them.” “As he told us this story, what struck me was how similar my own experience has been. Time after time for the past four decades my liberal friends and relatives have refused to believe anything I say to them—always based on actual events—about politics and the growing corruption and bigotry within the Democratic Party. Like those decent Germans in the 1930s, these decent Americans find reasons to quickly dismiss what I say, without making any effort to find out if there is any merit to it…

“What I said was simply too unbelievable to be true, even though I had actually experienced it.”

The Dream of Poor Bazin is now available as an audiobook, if you use Apple Books. It is read by their automated voice reader, “Warren”.