It may sound vaguely cute, but “Operation Bambi” was anything but. As detailed by the New York Times Magazine this week, “Operation Bambi” was the plot hatched by NBC executives to force Ann Curry from her co-anchor post on the Today show. The inner machinations that led to her teary signoff last June—and Matt Lauer’s apparent downfall and gleaming spot on this year’s list of “Most Hated Celebrities”—involve as much backstabbing, callousness and infighting as one might expect. Read More...
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Sourdough bloomer available via the cooperative
This loaf is another soft one – extremely fluffy, with plenty of air bubbles and a little chewiness to it, like the others. The sourdough flavour, on the other hand, is still pretty mild. Wheat flour, water, salt, yeast, and malted barley flour are the main ingredients.
Is store-bought sourdough really sourdough if it is prepared this way? Store-bought “sourdough” breads employ just a little quantity of sourdough starter and combine it with other tastes to impart a sourdough flavour — while the rising process is carried out by commercial yeast in other cases. Read More...
To tase is to attack with a Taser or other stun weapon, typically with the goal of incapacitation. Tase comes from Taser, but in common usage it is used to refer to the action of using any such device (commonly called a stun gun). It is also spelled as taze. Do you say tased or tasered? For example, correct uses of the TASER trademark include “TASER device” and “TASER weapon.” All verb forms of TASER are not correct uses of the TASER trademark, including “tase,” “tased,” “tasing,” “tasered,” and variations using the letter “z” instead of “s. Read More...
