These steaks would kill the average poor-cel

Brined for 12 hours, then coated in pepper X for 24 hour

Cooking was difficult because the air around my pan was spicy

Side note: let me introduce you to the unsung hero of the steak world: the flat iron. I confidently argue that this cut offers the best flavor for your dollar. Despite a modest cost, the flat iron boasts a flavor that rivals the esteemed ribeye and a tenderness second only to the filet mignon. This steak showcases the skill of the butcher, who carefully cuts around a tough connective tissue to unveil a surprisingly tender and flavorful cut. The flat iron has won my heart and secured its place as my all-time favorite steak. Its remarkable combination of taste, texture, and value makes it a true gem in the world of steaks

Is this some kind of joke?

Throwback to when David Leavitt called the police on a Target manager because there was a misprint on the price of a toothbrush.

Broken heart reacts only. 💔

Welp, time to get a shovelin'

Imagine living in a place like this

Issue has been resolved

No poor-cel can solve this problem

Me as a dog

Most hydrophilic city dweller

Why would you spend time listening to podcasts when you could be reading letters written by 19th century men regarding the institution of slavery?

In reading the opening of Hammond's letter to Clarkson, I find myself struck by the rhetorical skill on display. Hammond begins by acknowledging Clarkson's long engagement with the subject of slavery, noting that "Familiar as you have been with the discussions of this subject in all its aspects, and under all the excitements it has occasioned for sixty years past, I may not be able to present much that will be new to you." This respectful nod to his interlocutor's expertise is a savvy way to open the dialogue, even as the phrase "under all the excitements" subtly suggests that Clarkson's passion may have clouded his judgment.

Hammond then pivots to sowing doubt about Clarkson's ability to fully comprehend the southern situation: "While there are peculiarities in the operation of every social system, and special local as well as moral causes materially affecting it, which no one, placed at the distance you are from us, can fully comprehend or properly appreciate." Here he implies that Clarkson's geographical remove from the American South limits his understanding of the complex realities on the ground. This is a clever move, as it allows Hammond to position himself as the voice of experience and firsthand knowledge.

Finally, Hammond presents his pro-slavery stance as a "novelty" to Clarkson, describing himself as "one who conscientiously believes the Domestic Slavery of these States to be not only an inexorable necessity for the present, but a moral and humane institution, productive of the greatest political and social advantages, and who is disposed, as I am, to defend it on these grounds." By framing his position as principled and even morally enlightened, Hammond sets the stage to argue for slavery as a positive good, not merely a necessary evil for productivity in the South.

I find myself wanting to absorb some of these techniques into my own rhetorical arsenal, to learn how to begin a persuasive letter with such a deft mix of courtesy and cunning.

Hammond eloquenty explains that we ought not seek to correct century old problems of justice long after all those involved have passed:

The wisdom of ages has concurred in the justice aud expediency of establishing rights by prenoscriptive use, however tortuous in their origin they may have been. You would deem a man insane, whose keen sense of equity would lead him to denounce your right to the lands you hold, and which perhaps you inherited from a long line of ancestry, because your noscript was derived from a Saxon or Norman conqueror, and your lands were originally wrested by violence from the vanquish- ed Britons. And so would the New England Abolitionist regard any one who would insist that he should restore his farm to the descendants of the slaughtered red men to whom God had as clearly given it as he gave life and freedom to the kidnapped African. That time does not consecrate wrong, is a fallacy which all history exposes ; and which the best and wisest men of all ages and professions of religious faith have practically denied. The means, therefore , whatever they may have been, by which the African race now in this country have been reduced to slavery, cannot affect us, since they are our property, as your land is yours, by inheritance or purchase and prenoscriptive right.

This argument reads like a more eloquent version of some rightoid Youtuber responding to rabid leftist demands to return American land to the Injuns. Funny how there's nothing new under the sun, eh?

It really do be like that sometimes

Shots fired:

It may be regarded as a mark of our want of excitability -though that is a quality accredited to us in an eminent degree-that fewof the remarkable religious isms of the present day have taken root among us. We have been so irreverent as to laugh at Mormonism and Millerism, which have created such commotions farther North ; and modern Prophets have no honor in our country. Shakers, Rappists, Dunkers, Socialists, Fourierists, and the like, keep themselves afar off. Even Puseyism has not yet moved us. You may attribute this to our Domestic Slavery if you choose. I believe you would do so justly . There is no material here for such characters to operate upon.