Twice Removed From Oscar Wilde?

Ok, I got that from a Don McLean song, "Everybody Loves Me,Baby." But I do have a question. When speaking of cousins, etc., I have always referred to them as 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins, etc. Aunts are...

Do you always brown beef and pork?

Whenever I make stewed beef, beef stew, beef roasts or pork roasts, I always brown the meat first. Any kind of meat that is either cut up or going to be put in an oven or pot with liquid, I just...

Politics or Other Controversial Topics and the DRS of myLot - Opinions, please?

How many of you think that the DRS in myLot actually works the way is should? If you post in Politics or Religion, do you think that others who merely disagree with you will rate you positively for...

Cindy McCain Says Obama Running "Dirtiest" Campaign Ever?

I could not believe her statement. The McCain campaign has tried every way from Sunday to connect Obama to everyone from terrorists to Fannie Mae. They have slung bull from every corner, and yet...

Palin - CNN's Campbell Brown Says Sexism Must Come To An End!

CNN's Campbell Brown accuses the McCain campaign of chauvinistic treatment of Sarah Palin. She said, "I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who...

Politics and Religion - Mixing the two?

In reference to an article I just read at the Washington Post about 33 ministers flouting the tax law with political sermons:The separation of church and state has been discussed on myLot many times....

Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

No, I am not making this up and no, I am not posting this just to "attack" poor Sarah. Before someone says it is nitpicking, let me say that it is not to those of us concerned about the earth and...

McCain's Newfound Support for Regulation - How Can He Be Trusted?

McCain, after decades of being against regulations, has now decided we need them. How perceptive of him. "They haven't been doing their job right," McCain said yesterday, "or else we wouldn't have...

Are You Killing The Fun Of Childhood?

I was born in the 1950's. Children in the 50's and 60's played hard...OUTSIDE. We played in the streets, we were daredevils on bikes and skates, homemade go-carts, homemade skateboards; we had...

Palin Has Her Own "Minister" Problems - Controversial Views

Since everyone has seen and discussed Obama's minister, let's discuss Palin's. Palin's church, minister and beliefs are every bit the story that Obama's is/was. In a speech given in June, addressing...