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It's like an old-fashioned (usually glazed) more in a bar shape than a traditional donut shape. I would assume that they have buttermilk in the recipe, but I don't don't really know the specifics other than than they have a bit more of a "sour cream" tang than a regular old-fashioned.

To my eternal dismay, all the donut shops in my town stopped making buttermilk bars, so I have to go in with a "stretch" order and have a safety order (old-fashioned glazed) as my most likely order.

Check the link OP posted; it looks like there's nearly 400 comics

Like the post said the other day, "paying attention is infuriating and exhausting, but not paying attention seems irresponsible"

It doesn't mean the campaigning will be shorter, just that everything will further turn into attack ads on incumbents

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Fair enough. I guess I should say that the group calling for the "reclamation" of the Middle East for Christianity was not the indigenous people. The Romans were a colonial power in the Middle East, so saying that a Roman Pope could call for a reclamation is like Great Britain trying to reclaim India.

While I may have gone too far in saying Christianity has not taken root in the Middle East, I stand by my central thesis that the Crusades were wars of aggression.

Well the bottom picture was them trying to reclaim lost lands. Neither event was clean.

Are you referring to the Crusades? Those weren't really Christians "trying to reclaim lost lands," since the Middle East was never "owned" by Christians. Christianity, especially Catholicism never really took root in the Middle East until much later, so the Pope declaring that all good Christians should join the Crusades really was a war of aggression.

On the other hand, you could be referring to the reclamation of Spain, but I don't think that's what that painting is depicting.

Isn't the whole album based on Animal Farm? Might as well just read that, since you could probably read the whole book in the time it takes to listen to a Pink Floyd album

I have done this before when I needed to make one adjustment to a preexisting spreadsheet. If I don't have my laptop and someone tells me about a change to a project, sometimes I'll just make a note in my phone, but if it's a quick fix, sometimes I'll pull up the spreadsheet and fix it right away to avoid forgetting.

But that's far and away the exception

I see your point, although it doesn't match my anecdotal experience. People from the Twin Cities might vote differently than people in the small rural towns, but many of the everyday attitudes and cultural associations are pretty similar statewide, regardless of whether they are rural or urban. And in my experience, people from the Cities have a lot more in common culturally with the eastern Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin than they do with Chicago and rural Illinois or with Montana and Wyoming.

Granted I only married into a Minnesotan family and my experience with the Dakotas is fairly limited, but I would have said that they're a pretty broad spectrum from east to west, especially in South Dakota. Rapid City is definitely pretty similar to Montana and Wyoming, but Mitchell, Sioux Falls, and Fargo are all far more similar to Minnesota

Then again, I'm thinking "culturally" not "politically," so if you're thinking about how they vote, you're probably right that they're likely more similar to MT than MN.