On Mitt Romney's Shocking Secret: I Was a Teen Illiterate!
The line would have been even more disingenuous if his father hadn't been freaking governor of the state at the time. Also: What is it with the tendency for Republican dignitaries to come from the ranks of male cheerleaders. Are they compensating for something?
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On Recipe Appealing
The recipe is a little fussy, but basically sound. Except that you want to use guanciale if you can find it, obviously - the one from Biellese up on 8th Avenue is a sound one, very animalistic - and probably to crush the garlic clove instead of slicing it, because you want a subtler flavor, and one of the slices is bound to scorch. Also, the pecorino romano that makes it here is the dullest of all pecorinos. Use a toscano or a sardo if you can find it (you can), but less of it. You can, and probably should, finish the dish in a work bowl instead of in a hot pan, because the eggs are much less apt to curdle that way, and when you pour the guanciale and hot fat over the tossed pasta before tossing again, you can control the amount you put in, so the dish will become less shiny-lips greasy than it sometimes ends up. And please throw that nutmeg down the sink. It doesn't belong within a metric mile of this dish.
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On Who Copyedits The Copy Editors?
Aren't most of those proofreading errors as opposed to copy-editing errors? I am perhaps showing my age.
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On Don't Pay Attention To The Moon This Weekend
And with Newt Gingrich out of the race, those precious, precious moon colonies are just that much further out of reach.
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On Pleasant-Sounding Name Not Totally Accurate
It's the Brooklyn Red Velvet Cupcake you have to wonder about.
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On 30th Nightmarish Shark-Faced Drug Sub Scuttled!
Alkaloids From the Deep
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On 30th Nightmarish Shark-Faced Drug Sub Scuttled!
And they haven't even tried trawling the East River.
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On Exercise Bad
``In one French study, obese men were 69 per cent less likely to have had more than one sexual partner in a year than men of normal weight.''
Now they're just messing with us.