I cried THRICE during this episode; it was perfect

There are a lot of conspiracies about a plot to make it so the US has to import food, despite, as you said, most of those crops going to biofuels and not food. There are absolutely some astroturf-y groups pushing these narratives here, fake as they might be

I live in a county in Indiana that has passed a moratorium on industrial-scale solar, and a lot of the opposition here at the local level is specifically to putting solar on farm land.

I have the same York Minster rose window ornament and it always gets pride of place on the tree for being nice to look at

Before I realized you were talking about the city, I thought you were talking about the historical figure St. Paul but was still on board with your argument

"The person whose life is obliterated at sea without due process of law is a life that leaves a void in the body of Christ."

It's so industrial their zoning map only bothers to color in the parts of the city that *aren't* industrial. The big chunk of residential in the middle is literally an uninhabitable Superfund site because they built a housing project and elementary school on top of an abandoned lead smelter

I would also like to submit for consideration East Chicago, Ind., part of Indiana's "there used to be steel mills here but now there's just residual industrial pollution and railroads" region

If you're up for a little work, Alton Brown's aged eggnog recipe is *very* good altonbrown.com/recipes/aged...

The remarkable thing is that compared to the book, they take *forever* to get to the spicy stuff. The PROLOGUE of the book is them sleeping together, before you get any backstory whatsoever

It’s December and I’m taking joy from wherever I can find it.