Our temps stalled at -5 or so. I did not set foot outside.
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Old People Love SoupI'm sure you can put together the equivalent more cheaply by buying the individual components, but I'm getting lazy in my dotage.
We love this blend for a veggie soup:
I've made it as specified on the package, but lately I've been leaving out the zucchini and using some green cabbage instead.
When I first started buying it, it had alphabet pasta in it. Now it's orzo, which is still good, but I miss the little letters.
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Fairness of the 2026 ElectionBe sure to get your mail-in ballot in as early as possible.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-same-day-postmark-changes-mail-delays/
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Old People Love SoupI just went back and looked at the Taste of Home version; it has you cook the spaghetti separately.
Some of the cowboy spaghetti recipes just have you break up the uncooked spaghetti and toss it into the skillet, cooking for about 20 minutes. Bit more liquid so the spaghetti has enough to cook in...
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Weather where you are thread@Mark said in Weather where you are thread:
-15f wind chill is -37f
Pretty much our situation when we got up this morning. Temps have zoomed up to -6.
I baked fresh sourdough bagels for breakfast.
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Old People Love SoupAdd me to the soup brigade. I usually have at least ten containers of soup in the freezer, anywhere from two to four varieties. Split pea, Roberto, veggie and bean, potato leek....
The two of us old people love meat loaf. And one pot dishes that aren't soup. Minimum fuss and fewer pots and pans to wash.
I saw this recipe last night and it sounded like a possibility. I could probably skip the bacon and just do the beef.
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Some good news I forgot to share -
LogorrheaItâs Time to Talk About Donald Trumpâs Logorrhea
How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?
A decade into the Trump era, Americans are more or less used to this manic political performance art, proof, if we still needed it, that millions of our fellow-citizens are all right with having a clearly disturbed leader who cannot control what he says. (Although, to be fair, even some partisan Republicans are starting to worry that they could pay a serious price this fall for what the G.O.P. strategist Karl Rove, no fan of Trumpâs, called Trumpâs unnervingârambling appearancesâ and âdownward spiralâ in his latest Wall Street Journal column, headlined âIs Trump Trying to Lose the Midterms?â)
New Yorker:
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Speaking of vaccinesFor those who suffered through the shingles vaccine, some good news.
Last April I wrote a Ground Truths entitled âThe Shingles Vaccine and Reduction of Dementia.â At the time many were unaware of this unanticipated relationship based on 2 large natural experiments. Two new studies this week have advanced our understanding about the potential biological impact of the Shingles vaccine, independent of its effects for preventing Shingles or direct action vs. herpes zoster virus and reinforced its protection from dementia, ~80% of which is attributable to Alzheimerâs disease. In this post I wonât get into the details of what I previously wrote (please link back for more perspective), but instead devote the text to the new findings.
Topol's earlier post:
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingles-vaccine-and-reduction
