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Peppermint Popcorn for Easter

If you still have candy canes left from Christmas, consider them for an Easter-pink caramel corn. Hard candies make a great flavoring for popcorn—but watch out for the color mixes!

Save That Thou Art

High King of heaven, when vict’ry is won/May I reach heaven’s joys, bright heaven’s Sun!/Heart of my heart, whatever befall,/Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.

City Lights and Sensors Always Get Me Down

If pilots have too much input to make safe decisions, should we be turning our automobile dashboards into cockpits?

Five Weekly Accomplishments

Is listing five weekly accomplishments really a hardship?

Foreign policy is not a deal?

Peace isn’t a deal, foreign policy isn’t a deal. That doesn’t leave room for much except war. Whose children will you send to keep that war going?

Honey pecan pie for Π Day

For Pi Day this year, consider a pecan pie flavored with honey instead of corn syrup or molasses. You can never have enough pie. And you can never have enough pecan pie. Put it in a whole wheat crust and you can even pretend it’s healthy!

Mysterium Fidei: Mortem tuam annuntiamus, Domine

Latin in the Catholic Mass II: The Mysterium Fidei, or Mortem Tuam, is one of the shortest bits of Latin in a partly Latin Mass. It highlights some interesting features of Latin and how it translates to English.

Texas Independence Fried Chicken and Pecan Pie

Celebrate Texas’s Independence Day with sesame fried chicken and a very easy and very good no-bake pecan pie.

Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1947 Cold Cookery

The 1947 Norge Cold Cookery and Recipe Digest reflects not just increased access to electricity but also the end of a second world war.

Kolchak’s Big Sister at North Texas 2025

Kolchak and Friends will be back at the North Texas RPG Con in 2025 for an Ides of March that will have you asking dux femina facti? in one of the weirdest Kolchak adventures ever.