Michael Vick is misunderstood

Posted by Richard Bennett

Everybody in the world is piling-on poor Michael Vick about his unique attitude toward his animal compansions, so this balanced news story deserves some play: ATLANTA–Michael Vick’s attorney, Billy Martin, spoke today at length about the dog-killing allegations leveled against his client and insisted that Vick ate “every single dog” that was killed on his [...]

Building a Better Pie Crust

Posted by Richard Bennett

Finally, something useful from PJ Media, Nancy Rommelman on Building a Better Pie Crust. First-rate journalism, for sure. Comments on Nancy’s blog, here. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

Good Tomato Sauce

Posted by Richard Bennett

People are doing interesting things with food these days. Researchers in Ohio have devised some new varieties of tomato by combining heirloom varieties with disease-resistant modern varieties, and in the process dramatically raised the content of usable lycopene. It’s all in this American Chemical Society Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry article, Carotenoid Absorption in [...]

How to feed cats with Linux

Posted by Richard Bennett

This guide to an automated cat-feeding system is essential to modern life, especially the vacation part: We have to work, but that doesn’t mean our cats should have to go without stinky little fish, right? Why should our economic necessities have a negative effect on their treat times? Isn’t it our responsibility to build them [...]