The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry
-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar
Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality but madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
-Stephen Fry
Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.
-Christopher Hudgens
Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance
-Albert Maysles
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing
-Elbert Hubbard not Aristotle
or Mark Staff Brandl
That’s one of the greatest powers I have, that I have 52 people who I hire and nobody knows where they’re coming from. For instance, there are two slots over at the jail. Nobody knows if Julia Childrey [Director of Department of Justice Services] put those people there or I did. It’s good fucked up. We like it fucked up. I care about my politics.
-Steve Stenger
School Square Pizza
Crust: 2 ⅔ flour ¾ cup powdered milk 2 T sugar 1 packet of quick rise yeast 1 tsp salt 1 ⅔ cup warm water (105-110 degrees) 2 T vegetable oil Filling: ½ pound ground chuck ½ tsp salt ½ tsp pepper 1 8oz block mozzarella cheese – grated yourself (substitute imitation...
Lemon Curd
1/4 cup sugar 1 large egg 1/3 cup lemon juice 4 Tbsp butter Whisk the sugar, egg, and lemon juice together in a small sauce pot until smooth (remember to avoid aluminum materials as they will react with the acid in the lemon juice). Continue whisking while placing the...
Iced Tea Margaritas
granulated white sugar for coating rim of glass 59oz Raspberry iced tea 10 oz tequila 8 oz triple sec 4 oz fresh squeezed lime juice 4 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice frozen fruit such as blueberries, raspberries, peaches Mix tea, tequila, triple sec, lime juice, lemon...
Hell’s Roasted Turkey
1 free-range turkey (any size but above 15 lbs double onions, lemons & bay leaves)sea salt & freshly ground black pepper2 onions pealed and halved1 lemon halved1 head of garlic chopped6 bay leavesolive oil8 strips of duck bacon (can substitute pork bacon)...
