Oh gosh this looks good

http://www.thehungrymouse.com/2011/11/01/sweet-spicy-coconut-shrimp/

(And you can always swap yogurt (sheep or otherwise) for sour cream if necessary, I find.)

But what would I serve it with? (NOT a rhetorical question!)

*eyeroll*

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/a-thanksgiving-feast-no-turkeys-allowed

It's a post with some vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving. As the author says, even non-vegetarians can use these recipes as side dishes along with their meat-of-choice.

And some of those recipes look really good, although fat chance trying to convince the nieces to eat butternut anything. (Still, do you think it'd go well with that shrimp dish?)

92 comments in, and most of them are "OMG! Vegetarians are so terrible! This is an assault on my freedom! How stupid they are to think they'll stop me from eating meat! Nom nom nom! Those meanies!"

Now, I agree, some veg*ns can be terrible, annoying people who are determined to convince everybody to stop eating what they like ever. (And to them I say you do much more good convincing three people to eat half as much meat than you do convincing one person to eat no meat and two people to eat twice as much because they hate you.) There are people like that in EVERY group.

None of them are posting comments over there today, though. Bunch of hypocrites, all of them, whining about how vegetarians are judging THEIR diets!

Oh look.

An article on why we should reform English orthography.

Now, do you think there's a sensible comment in the lot? Do you think anybody commenting there has any idea of how language works? Because if you do, you're in for a shock!

No, it's all "Oh, you want to dumb down the language" and "Oh, obviously my variety is better than yours because yours is wrong" and "Oh, you must hate English". Blah, blah, blah. If people will persist in being ignorant all the time, can't they at least be ignorant in different ways?