I have 5 boxes of girl scout cookies at my desk. It's my way of saying FU Religious Right! Also, Thin Mints!

I *just* realized that the gluten-free thing means NO THIN MINTS for me. Excuse me, I have to go weep.

I don't remember what ita was talking about. Was it about common psychological/logical fallacies?

Was it about common psychological/logical fallacies?

YES. That one. You know the one. Help a sister out...

Jilli - surely there is a "thin mints" clause. . . and if not - you should totally make one.

I mean - it has mint which is good for your digestion. . .right?

I had never heard of the Melungeons until Hec mentioned them here yesterday, and then today I got a publicist emailing me to pitch a book about the Melungeons! (The book is Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree by Lisa Alther, coming out next month, if anyone's interested.)

I went on a reading binge many years back of Bury Me Standing, After Such Knowledge What Forgiveness? (Kurds), Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Me Against My Brother (Somalia) and of course, a reread of my library of books on the former Yugoslavia (too long to list) capped off with A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Probably all in a year. Oh, and Blackhawk down and the Black Tulip.

Ha, this sounds very similar to my DH's to-be-read pile. Riots, mass violence, and genocide are kinda his thing, academically speaking. I wonder how many of those he's read?

In Main Street, the main character is considering becoming a librarian, and thinks about how she'd get to introduce people to the whole world of knowledge they can find in books, but then decides that, no, the reality of being a librarian is probably just dealing with kids looking for the latest Elsie book.

That cracks me up, having experienced the modern-day equivalent!

ION, I finally broke down a half hour ago and just heated up a frozen lasagna because it was POURING and I didn't want to get soaked on my way out for lunch. And now the rain has stopped and the sun has come out and I wish I could un-eat my lasagna and go out for the much tastier lunch I had planned. Oh well.

Jilli - surely there is a "thin mints" clause. . . and if not - you should totally make one.

I mean - it has mint which is good for your digestion. . .right?

If it was just the digestive issue, I would totally make an exception for one or two Thin Mints. Alas, it's looking more and more that gluten makes my skin welt up in horrific blisters. Even the lure of Thin Mints is not enough to compensate for that.

t me me me me I am hoping and praying that this gluten welt thing is because of the swarms of other things going on with my system, will eventually go away, and isn't, oh, Celiac. Because if it IS Celiac, that means no more gluten, ever, including tiny cross-contamination issues like fries being cooked in the same oil as anything breaded. t /me me me whining me

Gluten free thin mint recipe link.

ita, this? [link]

I don't remember what it looked like, or when/where I had it.

Jilli, my sister, one of my nieces and one of my nephews all have Celiac disease severe enough that a few bites of toast once put my nephew in the hospital - it will be easier than you think to avoid it because a lot of people have the same issue and have done a lot of the leg work for you about where and what you can eat. (In some sense, I think it's easier to just say no gluten, ever, than to try and straddle both the gluten and gluten-free worlds).