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November 26, 2010 · 8:03 pm

New Evidence Proves First Flag Made By Betsy Ross Actually Shirt For Gay Friend | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

I love The Onion:

PHILADELPHIA—Historians at the University of Pennsylvania announced the discovery this week of a personal diary from the late 18th century that reveals the first U.S. flag sewed by Betsy Ross was originally intended as a shirt for her flamboyant gay friend Nathaniel.

“This has completely upended the accepted narrative behind the first American flag,” said historian Kenneth Atwood, who led the team of scholars analyzing the long-forgotten journal of prominent Philadelphia homosexual Nathaniel Linsley. “Now we can say with certainty that our nation’s most enduring symbol of freedom, strength, and prosperity is actually just the result of Nathaniel’s desire for a sassy, tight-fitting top.”

“We’ve all been taught that the 13 stars and stripes of the first U.S. flag represented the original 13 colonies, but this is simply not the case,” Atwood added. “In fact, Nathaniel thought that stripes were slimming, and he just really, really liked stars.”

via New Evidence Proves First Flag Made By Betsy Ross Actually Shirt For Gay Friend | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

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November 24, 2010 · 10:53 am

Paula Deen on Thanksgiving, Her Blood Pressure, and the Butter Scene in Last Tango in Paris | Little Gold Men | Vanity Fair

This woman can get on my last nerve sometimes, probably because she reminds me of too many people I knew in Danville, but this is a good way to start prepping for the Thanksgiving Feast!

And she is really amusing in this interview. Fast on her feet. I may be starting to like her, after all..

Thanksgiving is about one thing and one thing only, and that’s gluttony. So who better to offer some last-minute cooking tips than the Queen of Butter, the Dame of Deep Fried, the High Priestess of Cardiovascular Disease. I’m talking about Paula Deen, the Emmy-winning Food Network host, author, and, come New Year’s Day, Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade in Pasadena.

If you’ve ever seen the 63-year-old Southern icon in action, you know that even watching her cook is enough to raise your cholesterol. She goes through sticks of butter like some people use breath mints. Her best-selling cookbook, Paula Deen’s Kitchen Classics, was voted one of the “unhealthiest” books of the decade by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. If that doesn’t sound like the true spirit of Thanksgiving, you’ve probably been doing it wrong.

Link to full article and interview: Paula Deen on Thanksgiving, Her Blood Pressure, and the Butter Scene in Last Tango in Paris | Little Gold Men | Vanity Fair.

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November 21, 2010 · 12:24 am

The Weather Girls: “It’s Raining Men”

Another one of my favorite songs from my club days in the ’80’s…

It’s still on my iPod gym mix….

I wonder if they ever played this one at parties at Lambda Chi Alpha at Washington and Lee?

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November 17, 2010 · 8:52 pm

Bristol Palin’s dancing prompts man to shoot his TV – JSOnline

Only in America….

A rural Dane County town supervisor believes Bristol Palin should not be on “Dancing With The Stars.”

He demanded his wife get his pistols to emphasize his point.

The result: A 15-hour standoff Monday and Tuesday involving hostage negotiators, a dog team and other law enforcement authorities on one side and the Town of Vermont man on the other.

The only casualty: The man’s television.

Dane County prosecutors have charged Steven N. Cowan with second-degree reckless endangerment in the incident that made his wife worry that he would shoot her, according to a criminal complaint.

Cowan, 67, and his wife were in the living room Monday night, watching the dance competition program that has featured the daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin this season as one of the competitors.

As Bristol Palin danced on the screen, Cowan raged.

“The (expletive) politics,” he yelled, according to the complaint. Cowan, a Town of Vermont supervisor, was upset that a political figure’s daughter was on the show when he didn’t consider her a good dancer, his wife told authorities.

Cowan went to his bedroom and came back about 20 minutes later, demanding that his wife find his pistols. Cowan’s daughter had taken two handguns away for safety reasons, according to the complaint.

Cowan had tracked down a single-shot shotgun in the house, he “slapped” shells down onto a TV tray, loaded a round and took out the TV, the complaint says.

via Bristol Palin’s dancing prompts man to shoot his TV – JSOnline.

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November 15, 2010 · 10:30 pm

Making the Case for a $140 Turkey: bonappetit.com

We’ve gotten our Thanksgiving Turkey from these folks for the last 4 or 5 years. There is no going back once you’ve had a real, heritage breed Turkey. It’s expensive, but it’s only once a year. And we look forward to it all year long. It is a truly amazing difference in how much better these taste. I’ll never be able to eat a Butterball again…

Patrick Martins, Co-founder, Heritage Foods USA, Brooklyn; 718-389-0985; heritagefoodsusa.com

Patrick Martins likes happy animals–particularly endangered, humanely raised pigs, cows, and turkeys–and not just because they taste better. He believes their happiness is a moral imperative. As co-founder of Heritage Foods USA, his mission to save heritage breeds of livestock and the family farms that raise them began nine years ago, when a few hundred of his heirloom turkeys fanned out across the country. Today, that number is closer to 7,500, and every last one is raised by a farmer who shares Martins’s passion.

Why did you start with turkeys?

It seemed like a single item that everyone in the country could get behind to support the small farmer. And it was a project that revolved around a single day, so it made it easier to find a sustainable source–to say, “We have to get 800 of these things raised for a single day in November.”

What’s the argument for a $140 turkey?

It ends up coming out to $8 a pound, or $8 per person. That’s cheaper than Applebee’s and almost as cheap as a McDonald’s value meal.

Read the rest of our Q&A with Patrick Martins after the jump.

What makes a happy turkey?

It has room. That’s the biggest thing. It can walk around. No living creature should be forced to spend its entire life in a box. That should shoot through to the heart of every American. We live in a country that is wealthy, that is trying to improve itself, that is like a moral beacon to the rest of the world. We cannot keep animals in boxes. Period. With turkeys, if their instinct is to roost–to wrap their talons around something and fall asleep–they should be allowed to roost. A happy animal is one that is allowed to fulfill its God-given instincts. And walking is a natural instinct.

More: Making the Case for a $140 Turkey: BA Daily: Blogs : bonappetit.com.