Some quick articles

One about climate change. Yay!

(I've said it before, and I'll say it again - rapid climate change is just plain sucky.)

And another

One on how fuel prices are causing people to reconsider the cities

( The comments, too, are fascinating )

Couple of links

But first - an update on my Bonne-maman.

Well, actually, I don't have one. Every time I call my mother, I get grumbles and incoherent muttering, but no details of what's going on. I surmise from this that there's no crisis *right now*, but that nothing's actually better, either.

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I have an article on dolls that represent disabled children. Edit: Found error (finally) and fixed.

Here's a good example of somebody Missing the Point, in a really stunning way, too:

"In early research into race stereotypes, in which black children were asked to choose from three dolls - one black, one brown and one white - and say which doll they would be most like, almost all chose the white doll,” Smith says. “This research is old and things may be different now, but it suggests that children want to identify with themselves as a positive, generally accepted image, ie, non-disabled, except in a short-term disability.”

I don't even know how I could possibly respond to that.

Meanwhile, apparently there is drama afoot in ohnotheydidnt on a related topic.

Drama, in a drama comm. My worldview is now officially shattered.

CSA was today.

Picked up the following:

One dozen eggs
Quarter pound of I don't know what
Three bunches scallions
Two bunches (two each) broccoli
Pound of kale (KALE!)
Four (4???) heads lettuce (quick - I need a way to use up lettuce that's not salad!)

I eat my peas with honey

I've done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But...
It keeps them on my knife!

I always thought this poem was strange as a kid - not because he eats his peas with a knife, but because if he's "done it all his life" surely he thinks that they taste normal that way?

Anyway, I have a poll:

[Poll #1211797]

See, I've had this recipe for watermelon salad with feta and mint floating in my mind for a while (and we always have plenty of mint), so I picked up some feta at the store today. But then, when I was googling to figure out how *much* feta goes in that salad with a whole or half a watermelon, I saw THIS recipe, and this one as well.

I grew up just grabbing a slice of (cold, refrigerated) watermelon and eating it on the fire escape in my room (did the same with gumbo. Everybody else ate in the kitchen, but for those meals I seem to remember eating them looking out over the backyard a lot, which normally I didn't do) and then coming back for more and more and more.

And in the comments to one of those recipes somebody posted that they normally eat watermelon with salt (SO not how I ever did it) like it's a normal thing, and I remember reading that in some areas, that *is* how one usually does it.

So - yeah, poll.