Don’t turn around, oh-oh,
Oh, Der Blogwatcher’s in town, oh-oh…

Two things I learned this weekend:
1. “Dave Chappelle’s Show” is awesome. And he’s a hometown honey!

2. How to make delicious scrambled eggs. I’d been making these very dry, unfortunate eggs. With ample additions of whole milk and salted butter (stirred into the eggs prior to cooking), plus turning the heat way down once the eggs started to bubble and clump, I managed to make a delectable fluffy buttery treat. With red beans and bacon on the side–just dump some canned red beans and a couple strips of bacon in a pan, add pepper and maybe cayenne, heat to bubbling, simmer and stir until you don’t want to stir them anymore. Apparently everyone but me already knew the butter-and-milk trick, but just in case there are others out there who had always wondered why their scrambled eggs never tasted like the delicious ones at e.g. The Yankee Doodle, Home of Happiness, I thought I’d mention my weekend lesson.

Family Scholars: Elizabeth Marquardt on a NYTimes cover story on sperm donation:

…Today’s story does a good job revealing the problems of donor anonymity, especially for the children, and the incentives the U.S. fertility industry has to keep the whole thing secretive. She makes some good, brief points, such as the role of the state in assigning legal parents and protecting children’s interests in adoption contrasted with the role of private fertility clinics as sole arbiters of parenthood and children’s rights (or lack thereof) in donor conception. She notes that cloning is around the corner.

But the reporter is still dealing with this as solely a reproductive technology story. The connections to larger, changing ideas of parenthood (seen in our attitudes towards divorce and single-parent childbearing) and the same-sex marriage debate, for instance, are entirely absent.

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Global Voices Online: Blogs from just about everywhere–including places that were completely off the blogosphere map just a few years ago. Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and many more. Regular features on different areas and topics,from politics in the Horn of Africa to global foodblogging. A much-needed resource. Via Noli Irritare Leones.

Gode Cookery. “Gode Cookery is an award-winning medieval history website dedicated to the food & feasts of the Middle Ages & Renaissance. Here you will find information on medieval cooking, instructions for preparing authentic feasts, hundreds of recipes, image collections, a medieval cooking discussion group, graphics, photographs, and history resources.”

Oxblog: Hebron… he’s in Hebron…. Patrick Belton reports. Lots of fascinating stuff.

Scrutinies: Warp a young mind! Help the Anonymous Teacher Person create a book request list for her school’s library.

Snake Robots. Snake Robots.

WaiterRant: Cuban cigars–the true preferential option for the poor. Really lovely post. The next one is well worth your time, also, though heartbreaking.