Opinion & Columns

Six Tips To Safely Frying A Turkey

By MICHELA DELLAMONICA
Smith Publicity, Inc.
 
A few years ago my daughter’s in-laws from Brooklyn, NY came to Memphis for Thanksgiving.
 
To give them a taste of Southern cuisine, I decided to fry a turkey in addition to my conventionally roasted turkey. In effect, we had a taste panel where our 20 guests got to try both a roasted and fried turkey. There was no question that the fried turkey tasted better. It was more savory and had a richer flavor. It gave new meaning to the saying: “anything fried tastes better.”
 
Fried turkeys are great, but frying the turkey is seriously
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How The Hen House Turns: No Horses In The Backyard

Former Los Alamos resident Cary Neeper’s four granddaughters on a horse ranch in Colorado. Courtesy photo
 
By CARY NEEPER
 
The residents of the Hen House during our forty years in Los Alamos taught us tovrespect their personhood. And now, in the last decade or two, academic studies confirm the notion that animals do have emotions and cognizance.
 
Sadly, we were stuck too long in Rene Descartes’ 17th century idea that “nonhuman animals cannot reason or feel but are…machines made out of meat.”
 
Charles Darwin disagreed, and now we have
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Home Country: Too Much Pumpkin Pie

Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES
 
Steve will have Thanksgiving dinner over at Doc’s and Mrs. Doc’s this year, and any number of his friends are grateful for that. Steve is one heckuva cowboy and trainer of young colts, and a good friend to all, but he’d never make it as a dinner host.
 
Very few Thanksgiving dinners achieve legendary status, but “Steve’s Thanksgiving” was certainly one of them. Some said it happened because he’s lived alone and cooked meals for himself for so many years. Some say he has worked alone for so long that he isn’t of a coordinating mind. The answer could be buried
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Shin: If Sanctuary School, Then Kiss $8M Goodbye!

By LISA SHIN
Los Alamos

On Aug. 29, 2017, our County Council unanimously passed a proclamation honoring the contributions of immigrants. Compared to the earlier version in April, specific language was removed, its tone was softened, and a more strident “resolution” was changed to a “proclamation,” which did not require a vote.

Although Counci Vice Chair Susan O’Leary called it a “milquetoast,” “weak half measure of timid support,” Councilor Antonio Maggiore recognized “that the original was a little inflammatory, a little reactionary to what just transpired on the national scene.” Read More

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Cinema Cindy Reviews: Justice League

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Justice League” is the latest DC Comics’ film, uniting Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg. The only one missing is Superman. In fact, since the death of Superman (in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice), a door has opened for evil; the world has become more chaotic. Criminals are bolder, good people no longer believe in themselves, working for “law and order” seems a losing battle. Early scenes in the movie depict the chaos: poignantly, a homeless man is shown sitting against a building holding a hand-written sign that says, simply, “I tried.”

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Fr. Glenn: Respect To Whom Respect Is Due

By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

It seems we can scarcely open a news website or newspaper each day—sometimes each hour—without reading that yet another celebrity, politician, or eminent person has been accused of sexual harassment or abuse.

Sexuality, of course, is one of our most basic drives—probably only just below survival itself … and sometimes even survival loses out. I’m certainly no sociologist/anthropologist, but when trying to discern reasons for human behavior, it seems helpful to transport oneself to millennia past when survival was Read More

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World Futures: Money, Trade, Value And Time (Part Six)

ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World
Futures Institute

Last week we looked at the banking system in the United States and the emergence of the Federal Reserve System (The Fed) and its 12 Federal Reserve Banks. At the end of the article, we examined a current dollar bill (paper), noting that it says “Federal Reserve Note.” In the United States, this is legal tender, meaning that it is valid for meeting a financial obligation. But as in most countries, it has no backing by precious metals or other commodities and has value only by fiat (per Merriam-Webster, “an authoritative or arbitrary order”). So how is Read More

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