Unscheduled pause

Leisureguy will be away from the blog for a few days. He’s been unexpectedly admitted to the hospital – I’ll let him share the details when he returns. We’re confident all will be well, and we expect him to be back home in a few days. Modern medicine!

– The Wife

Chana dal and unpolished barnyard millet tempeh at 48 hours

Still some spots the mycelium has not yet reached.

Politics is just another word for persuasion

Kevin Drum has an interesting post that begins:

Over at New York, Sam Adler-Bell says that he doesn’t care about the word “woke.” If you don’t like it, fine. But if you believe in the principles behind the word, you need to quit using its pseudo-academic language with anyone other than your own circle of true believers:

This idiom — or perhaps communicative register — replaces the obligation of persuading others to adopt our values with the satisfaction of signaling our allegiance and literacy to those who already agree. In some cases, this means we . . .

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