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missing someone badly :( can't wait for next friday night!!
missing someone badly :( can't wait for next friday night!!
wtf, such people exist?
please la, be more humble and don't thinking so highly about yourself.
damn turn off
Right now, I am willing to give up everything, just for you……….
dont understand why do i want you so badly.
But do i ever cross your mind?
I would really wish to have you back in my arms right now.
I would really want you back again.
I don't want to lose you ever again, but the irony is, you ain't even mine now.
How do i make you mine?
No words can describe the love i had for you.
I miss you, N.
damn worried, menses is late for 6 days, and it's not here.
We give each other mixed signals, and now I'm trapped within these mixed signals. Now I don't even know if I still want you back or not. Trying so hard to not think about you, seems impossible. Trying to not contact you, is an mission impossible. For us to even get back together, it's just my wishful thinking.
Often I miss us, lying down on your couch cuddling, watching NCIS/Castle. Life was perfect back then. Now, it's a piece of mess with no intention of getting it cleared up.
I just want you to tell me straight, whether you still want me or not? And what do you propose, for us to do.
Sick of waiting for something that won't happen, but this is human nature isn't it? Wanting something that we can't get.
Trust me, NO ONE will love you like I do.
Gonna make you regret for leaving me with tons of scars.
I keep telling myself, I cannot want you. But, I still want you. In fact, I want you more than I want anything.
Agreed to be friends, and let's try. Will do whatever it takes to make us stay as friends for as long as possible.
I love you.
Deep inside me, I still yearn for your love and everything. I frankly don't mind if she is someone outside RP, but why must it be someone from RP?!
You are just making thing worse isn't it? Seriously, I have gave you all I can, yet it wasn't enough?
I am seriously so tired of loving. Jeremy ask me not to trust u, not to go the trip with you, But i want. Because I was hoping for a miracle, for us to get back together. That few days together might turn things round.
I seriously H-A-T-E her to the core, if I can, I would kill her RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANCE.
I gonna move on and forget about you. Slowly one day, I will be able to stop stalking both of you. I believe, by this week, I would have to be so miserable to stalk you two like this. I believe, I will move on and lead my life happily, even much happier than I was with you. I KNOW I CAN DO IT.
I still feel very affected over it, although it has been days.
I still hate the girls. WHY DO GIRLS OF THE SAME AGE LOVE STEALING MY MAN?!
Didn't I put in enough effort to make them happy?
If you really trying to frame my friends or me or anyone else, just so you two can get together, i am so sorry, you have failed.
Because I will not forgo a friendship over such nonsense. And to me, friendship is more important than relationship. Because boyfriend will leave you for someone else they love, but friends will never leave you just because they got a boyfriend/girlfriend :) that's the power of friendship.
You, will no longer be someone I love. You will just be a normal friend of mine, with no trust and feelings. Because the hurt and pain you inflicted on me, has just made me lost my mind and soul. And I can't wait for you to get that hurt and pain too. But I believe in karma, you will get your karma soon.
Not going to open my heart to anyone, anymore. Till the right guy comes out, and then I will get married.
The news shocked me to the extend that I felt numb by the pain.
First time I felt such pain that I felt myself being soulless for that few hours.
How can someone be so selfish just to think about themselves? 6 months of relationship being together cannot overcome that 1 minor stuff? Merely shows how weak you are. I will never open up my heart again, until I think it's the right time to do it.
I will train so hard that I gonna get a gold medal for POL-ITE. To prove to you two assholes that I can do it. SUCKER
I need you so badly. This friend status is just killing me slowly. I really want you so so so badly.
Everything I do, reminds me of you.


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The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment said a giant Cintas shredder, a rubber mallet and a dumpster will be made available from noon to 1 p.m. Friday in Times Square for people to dispose of their unpleasant memories of 2012.
The organizers said Adam Ingber of Long Beach, N.Y., was chosen to be the first to destroy his memories of the year Friday after his family's home sustained major damage during Hurricane Sandy.
The event will also feature volunteers shredding pieces of paper bearing the bad memories of people who submit their memories online, the organizers said.
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'We R in Control' Category Archive
Mothership connection
So I kind of quit blogging, because it was taking me too much time to develop and refine the things I wanted to write about, which is both unproductive in general and not great blogging in practice in particular. But this week I was caught by an idea I could get figured out fairly quickly.
It stems from this New Republic post bemoaning the tendency to blame the government shutdown (and ideological extremism in general) on gerrymandering. This is basically correct. The idea behind your garden variety gerrymandering is to pack as many of your opponents voters into as few districts as you can, giving them a few very safe seats and you the bulk of the seats, but with narrow margins. If you do it right, you wind up with something like Pennsylvania, which voted for Barack Obama in 2012, and also gave 13 of its 18 House seats to Republicans. But also if you do it right, you're winning a bunch of 52-48 districts, which means you should be incentivized to run relatively moderate candidates. So it's not a very attractive explanation for systemic polarization or individual extremism.
But what is? Well one clear one is the willingness of far-right conservatives to mount primary challenges against Republican incumbents. This is an asymmetric strategy, as liberals are far less able or willing to mount such campaigns against incumbent Democrats. Primaries are low turnout elections, and the strongly ideological are the most likely voters. That means that Republican challengers come from the right, and challenged incumbents must move right to meet them. In theory, this should make the winner of the primary (whether the incumbent or the challenger) more vulnerable in the general election, because they've moved away from the median voter, and the Democratic nominee can move to the center in response. And indeed, this is essentially the dynamic that we've seen with the awful Senate candidates the GOP has put up in the last two cycles — they are far enough to the right to win a primary contested strictly among ultra-conservatives, but the statewide electorate wants nothing to do with them.
OK, so how does the House differ? There are a few key factors here. First, Senate campaigns get much more attention from national media and the national parties than House campaigns do, on average. So when Todd Akin talks about "legitimate rape," it becomes national news. When Kerry Bentivolio (now the Representative from Michigan's 11th district) is called "mentally unbalanced" by his own brother, it doesn't. Additionally, Senators don't have districts, they have states, which experience less change than districts do based on either demographics or map changes (the latter of which never happen for states). At the district-level, voters are gradually self-segregating along political lines, creating safer districts without necessarily gerrying the mander. This has the potential to make party ID even more salient in these elections than it is for statewide and presidential elections.
Where this all points is in the direction of low-information primaries producing nominees who appeal to extremely partisan electorates, leading into general elections where party ID trumps nearness to the median voter. This is where the idea of "safe seats" shifts from incumbents to parties — these are districts in which voters are pulling the lever for the party without knowing or caring much about who the candidate is. Once they get to Washington, fealty to the movement and service to the party become the most important thing. What's so incredible about this is that it might be as close as the US has ever come to installing a parliamentary system. The problem is that the rest of our system isn't designed to handle a parliament — the Senate gets in the way, the President gets in the way, the 10th Amendment gets in the way, etc. Our House has to push as hard as it can to get through all those veto points, and as long as its relatively undisciplined among its parties, that's fine. A House that is discretely divided is going to have a tendency to break our system, and that tendency isn't going to go away when the present crisis ends.
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Midwest aftermath
The levers of power are inherently political, Michigan edition:
The state House of Representatives voted 58-51 today to pass a right-to-work bill for public employees, and 58-52 on a bill for private sector workers.
Both right-to-work bills have already passed the Senate. All that is needed now is Gov. Rick Snyder's signature and Michigan becomes the 24th right-to-work state.
In a parliamentary manuever, the House Republicans asked for a reconsideration of the bill to keep Democrats from asking for the same thing, which would have delayed final passage until Wednesday. Technically, the Republicans could remove that request later today and the bills will automatically head to Snyder.
It almost goes without saying that the Michigan GOP didn't campaign on this in 2012, and that Snyder even testified earlier this year before the U.S. Congress that right-to-work wasn't right for Michigan. But much the way traditional norms of government have been violated up and down the ladder of power over the past couple decades, so it is. The disparate protest movements that rose up in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere in 2011 failed to congeal into something broader, and that's left Michigan vulnerable. It's left state employees in Illinois to watch their pensions be stolen. And wherever else it's possible, it will happen there, too.
Rep. Brandon Dillon — inexplicably elected as a Democrat from Grand Rapids — railed against this bill, saying that it's only being shoved through now because the votes won't be there in the 2013 session. Maybe that's true, but it elides the point a little bit. It's being shoved through now because this is the period of least accountable power. It's why George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security immediately as his second term began, it's why Scott Walker went after the unions only weeks after being sworn in, and it's why there's such demand for a bipartisan "Grand Bargain" to keep rich people's taxes low and destroy entitlements.
President Obama has thrown his weight behind the unions (which he somewhat conspicuously didn't do in Wisconsin), and that's big, but it's probably too late. It's entirely possible that Michigan unions are simply screwed. Even if the momentum built this week is enough to drive Snyder from office in 2014, keep in mind that when Tom Barrett ran against Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall, he never promised to repeal Walker's unionbusting bill. In Michigan, there's no guarantee that Snyder's replacement (with the help of a Democratic legislature) would undo this. (And if you want close coverage of the Michigan protests, follow Eclectablog.)
Voters with a union member in their household voted 40% for Mitt Romney. In 2008, it was 39% for McCain. That's about 7% of all voters casting their ballots in favor of the gun that's pointed at their own feet. Typically I'm happy to blame voters for their own bad outcomes, but in this case I think it's a tremendous failure of imagination on the part of the Democratic Party. Get half of those voters back and you win every election forever. This ought to be the mandate for the politically unshackled and, yes, largely unaccountable second Obama term: Look for the union label.
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Effetes don't fail me now
It's never the same thing, but it's always something. American presidential elections are horrible things, though I can't say whether they're any more or less horrible than other countries'. Ours are sinkholes of mendacity and gamesmanship, in which winning is measured by the players in skim and by the public in the desperate hope that things don't get any worse. At best, the campaign provides a distraction from the fact that our government is designed to fail, the institutional version of Monty Burns's million diseases all getting in one another's way. A public mismatched with its responsibility will again send a divided government to rule a structure that even one party could never reliably handle, expecting the president to "reach out" to the other side, and for the parties to "come together," as if these magic words will erase the serious and deep divisions between them on fundamental issues of policy, values, and beliefs. If we're lucky, only one incompetent or corrupt local election official will screw up thousands of ballots, and the winners will be known before the morning after Election Day; if so, we'll be ready to leap right into Decision 2016. The lessons we will have learned this year are that truth, on every level, is valueless in the gate-kept circle of Hell inhabited by the Gang of 500; that because money couldn't buy the presidency or the Senate, it's OK if it buys mayors and judges; and that everyone who uses science to correctly predict things is just getting lucky or at least gay. We'll play out this psychodrama again in four years, because most of us have no choice.
And now, on to the predictions!
I made a friendly wager that Barack Obama would defeat Mitt Romney well before the Republican primaries began, and I see no reason to deviate from that prediction now. His electoral vote margin will be smaller than it was in 2008, losing six votes to post-census shuffling, and then losing Indiana (11 votes), Florida (29 votes), North Carolina (15 votes) and the 2nd district of Nebraska (1 vote). All the other states will hold steady, for an Obama win with 303 votes to Romney's 235. Obama will also become the first president to be elected a second time with a lower share of the popular vote than he got the first time since Grover Cleveland returned to the White House in 1892 with slightly less than he'd won in 1884. A final tally of 51% for Obama and 48% for Romney (rounded) will also indirectly point to the incredible disappearance of Gary Johnson, who had been seen as having the potential to swing New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and maybe even Colorado. Total votes cast for president will be around 135 million.
Democrats will retain control of the Senate, flipping seats in Massachusetts and Maine (via Dem-caucusing independent Angus King), while Republicans take Nebraska and Montana. The push on Election Day will leave the Senate split 53 to 47. Democrats will gain five seats overall in the House of Representatives, but will be well short of a majority, leaving John Boehner with the Speaker's gavel by a count of 237 to 198. I'd like to be wrong about that one, but I have a hard time seeing where 20 more seats are going to come from.
Effete liberals, commies, moochers and anti-colonialists, let's get out there and make it happen.
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Elvis was a hero to most
Skewerism is the latest fad to take hold in the Republican Party:
Do you think pollsters are intentionally skewing their polls this year to help Barack Obama, or not?
GOP Dem Ind All Yes 71 14 45 42 No 13 65 40 40 Not sure 16 21 16 18
In the face of such an assault on reason and the very notion of shared reality, I'm tempted to fall back on The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Something about it doesn't seem to fit, though; Hofstadter's paranoid style requires more acknowledgement of reality than we're seeing here. And now that Mitt Romney has "won" the first debate, expect to see even more of this when he doesn't launch into a big lead in the polls (despite the fact that this is not how debates work).
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Mitt Romney and the need for fringe belief entrepreneurship
Mitt Romney's campaign took kind of an odd turn this week — odd even in the context of this campaign. They sent out a mailer in northern Virginia touting Romney's plan to deal with the epidemic of… Lyme disease. This was not merely one line item in the mailer, it was the whole point: "What can a president do about Lyme disease?" asks the cover side, with the interior calling it a "massive epidemic threatening Virginia." Virginia had 9.3 cases per 100,000 people in 2011, just above the national average of 7.8. Needless to say, this is an addition to the campaign agenda, and I'd wager an addition to campaign agendas in general going back a long, long time, and maybe forever. George Bush declared a Lyme Disease Awareness Week back in the summer of 1990, which is probably the closest it's ever come to being a campaign issue.
The Romney mailer suggests a few ways that Romney will end the scourge of Lyme disease. First, "improve synergy." Sure, sounds good. Second, "increase awareness." This mailer sure has him off to a good start! Finally, "support treatment." The interior of the mailer makes clear that supporting treatment is primarily about tort reform, because doctors who might get sued for malpractice can't effectively treat Lyme disease. A friend suggested to me that this is really the point of this weird strategy, but I'm skeptical. The GOP desire for tort award caps is not something that is sublimated in any way — they're open about it and they talk about it a lot. So why put out this odd mailer where tort reform is buried in one phrase of an interior bullet point, if tort reform is the point?
Simon van Zuylen-Wood, guest-blogging at Political Animal, had the same initial reaction I did: it's about dog-whistling the Christian right. First, Virginia and its evangelical governor, Bob McDonnell, have actually been pushing Lyme disease prevention for the last couple years. McDonnell put together a Lyme disease task force headed by the president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, rather than, say, a scientist. Apparently Romney's desire to "get the CDC out of the way" resonated with this guy and now they're pals.
This narrative is based on some nice dot-connecting among all these individuals and institutions, and it's well worth reading the whole thing. My impression, on the other hand, comes largely from following and studying fringe beliefs over the last several years, and specifically from a study I conducted last fall. This is data I presented at MAPOR last year, and will follow up this year. One of the beliefs I examined in that study was the belief that vaccines can cause autism, and unlike some other science-related beliefs (climate change, evolution), there was absolutely no effect of ideology and partisanship. There was also no effect of using partisan political media. There was, however, a significant effect of using Christian media, that positively predicted belief in the autism-causing power of vaccines. To the extent that this belief is rising up, it's happening in a venue that has little traction in mainstream social and political discourse. This is nothing new for American fringe beliefs — when Dr. Strangelove's Commander Ripper expressed concern over our "precious bodily fluids," that was a satire of contemporary fringe concerns nearly 50 years ago.
So I find myself wondering if what Romney's doing here is trying to innovate in the domain of fringe issues, playing on a right-wing Christian health and government paranoia. For a campaign still trying to solidify its base, and desperately in need of something to change the election's trajectory, that kind of enterprise campaigning has a lot of upside and carries little risk. If it makes the campaign look kooky and generates some laughs on the national level, so be it — people are laughing anyway.
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Atlas derped
If you're a sports fan, or if your social networks include sports fans, you probably know about what happened last night. If you don't, the short version is that the NFL has locked out its regular referees and has been using replacement refs (from low levels of college football, high school football, and other places such as the Lingerie Football League); an astonishing display of incompetence by the replacements gave a win last night to the Seattle Seahawks, which they shouldn't have gotten. The lockout is largely about the refs' defined-benefit pensions, which the NFL wants to replace with defined-contribution 401(k)s, and fund at a lower level. Reports put the difference between the two sides at about $2 million per year, which sounds like a lot until you realize that the NFL has annual revenues totaling more than $9 billion. No one disputes that the NFL could afford the roughly $62,000 per team per year that it would take to close the gap.
The replacement refs have made plenty of high-profile mistakes during the first three weeks of the regular season; however, observers have noted that the league has no incentive to move in negotiations as long as viewership, ticket sales and merchandise revenue remain in place. If a tipping point were to come based on on-field performance, it would have to be a game being decided by a blown call, which is what happened last night. To their credit, ESPN — a close league partner and an organization that depends on access to league resources — minced no words and spent quite a bit of coverage last night framing the event as a debacle for the league. As it so often does, Twitter "blew up." People are talking about quitting the NFL until the regular refs are brought back. More broadly, an enterprise that has put considerable effort into image management and control over the year — "protecting the shield" — and which made the pursuit of New Orleans Saints players and coaches involved in "Bountygate" the biggest story of the offseason, in the name of protecting the integrity of the game, has shown that image and integrity must fall in line behind union-busting.
Hall of Fame quarterback, ESPN analyst and Brigham Young University JD Steve Young summarized the situation well last night when he said that the league (and it should be noted that "the league" is really the 31 owners of the non-Green Bay franchises, not Commissioner Roger Goodell) views officiating as a commodity. So much the way they recently switched from Reebok to Nike as their uniform supplier, why should they find themselves beholden to some bunch of refs that don't like the deal that's on offer? After all, people follow and support the franchises, and the resources that go into maintaining those franchises (uniforms, refs, players) are just the cost of doing business. Plus, pretty everybody else has already had their pensions stripped away and replaced by the 401(k) guessing game, and not doing the same for refs is just going to distort the futures market for football officiating services. Indeed, attacking defined-benefit pensions is explicitly what the league is doing:
"From the owners' standpoint, right now they're funding a pension program that is a defined benefit program," said Goodell, who was in Washington on Wednesday attending a luncheon hosted by Politico's Playbook. "About ten percent of the country has that. Yours truly doesn't have that. It's something that doesn't really exist anymore and that I think is going away steadily."
There's a reason that doesn't really exist anymore, of course; it's part of multi-decade war on labor that has ratcheted up significantly in the last few years. And while it has manifested in 2012 as a fairly broad disdain for workers, it would be ironic if a labor dispute at the high end of the income range, in a sport so often associated with a caricature of midwestern industrial labor, was what finally moved a significant chunk of public to action, or even awareness. Other than the liability for a significant injury that can be connected to shoddy officiating, the public changing the channel is the only thing that will get the NFL's attention.
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Ground and pound
I spent the summer busy with travel and research, and let the blog go on hiatus. Well, fall classes start today, so now's a great time to get back to
procrastinating thinking out loud.
USA Today and Suffolk University released an interesting survey of "unlikely" voters a few days ago, which has gotten quite a bit of attention. It's worth noting that their methodology is unclear in the report — they've got a sample of 800, but was that simply culled from a larger, general sample that also included some number of likely voters? At any rate, the big takeaway is that unlikely voters strongly favor Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, though about one-fifth say they would vote for a third-party candidate if they were to vote. This is perhaps the strongest evidence yet for the importance of turnout to Obama's chances. In 2008, he got much bigger than usual turnout from traditionally low-turnout groups, most notably young adults and African-Americans. Many of these voters are probably still turning up as "unlikely" in typical polling models.
But a deeper look inside the data shows just where the Obama ground campaign is needed the most: convincing overconfident supporters that their vote is needed. Three-quarters of "unlikely" black voters expect Obama to win, but almost all say they would vote if they felt it could swing the election. Now, this probably shouldn't be taken too literally, since no one really expects the election to come down to one vote, but it is worth thinking about how and where energized black turnout to have the most impact. Of the ten states with the highest proportion of African-Americans, six are solid red, two are solid blue, and North Carolina and Virginia are up for grabs. These were big Obama takeaways in 2008, in part because of black turnout. Florida is number 11 on that list, and carrying those three swing states would basically clinch the election.
The assumption in 2008 was that the Obama campaign had a great turnout operation, but I'm not sure if anyone knows whether that's true or not — his candidacy certainly energized a lot of black voters on its own, but that doesn't mean the campaign necessarily did anything extra-special to get them out to vote. If the campaign has data similar to what this poll shows, they would be well served by targeting black voters now, not with persuasive appeals that are largely unnecessary, but with sobering reminders that the election isn't over until it's over.
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Rick Santorum's home turf is blue
Mitt Romney lost two more states yesterday, finishing third in both Alabama and Mississippi. Rick Santorum won both states, which were seen as Newt Gingrich's last chance at relevance; he's apparently pressing on regardless, though it certainly seems that doing so hurts Santorum much more than it does Romney. Despite lackluster performances in strongly conservative states, Romney's still basically on track to secure the nomination at some point, but it's probably going to take winning some of the big, winner-take-all states later in the calendar. That means there's theoretically still time for a Santorum miracle — he needs to win a significant majority of remaining delegates to actually secure the nomination before the convention — or that we could be heading for the ultimate Washington press corps fantasy, the brokered convention.
As Ed Kilgore notes, relaying comments from Jonathan Bernstein, party elites retain considerable power in the nominating process. They want Romney, and they have for a long time. Whatever happens in traditional primary states, there are enough delegates chosen at county- and state-level conventions (that is, the later parts of the caucuses that actually matter) to keep things slouching toward Romney if the voters don't come through. But what happens if the party bigwigs change their minds? What might make Santorum suddenly palatable?
Romney's big selling point has always been electability, and it's been especially prominent since he's had to focus on an opponent whose last election was a 17-point loss. But the more he tries to balance appeals to the far-right of the GOP primary electorate and general-election moderation, the tougher it becomes to secure his own base going into the general election. With the economy picking up and Barack Obama looking like more of a favorite, GOP elites might start thinking not just about who they want as President (it's still Romney, and will continue to be), but also about damage-mitigation in the event of a loss. I don't think there's any question that a Santorum loss to Obama is better than a Romney loss for the future of the Republican Party; frankly, a Romney loss could lead to the kind of intra-partisan shake-up we haven't seen since the Dixiecrats switched sides. That he wasn't conservative enough to win would be the rallying cry of the right going into Obama's second term and the 2014 and 2016 campaigns. A Santorum loss wouldn't necessarily push the party back toward the center, but it would provide leverage for those trying to pull it there.
But let's be clear: A flood of elite abandoning Romney for Santorum is the only way Santorum wins the nomination. Romney might not win it cleanly or anytime soon, but if the party chiefs want him, they'll find a way to get him before the convention. The brokered convention dream is an illusion in modern politics, in much the same way the small-conference national college football champion dream is an illusion pursued by so many sports reporters and pundits. Like the Boise State Broncos, Rick Santorum can only win if the system wants him to win, and right now it doesn't.
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There's a lot of interesting stuff in HBO's "Game Change," a dramatized version of the story of the McCain campaign's selection of Sarah Palin in 2008. But as someone who spends a lot of time sorting through the mythologies and shibboleths of both the liberal and conservative blogospheres, what most caught my attention was two references to TelePrompters.
If you're not up to speed on why this would grab me, allow me to lay out perhaps the silliest of the tribal markers currently in vogue on the American right. It is taken as a truism by many conservatives that Barack Obama is dumb and not much of a speaker, and it's only through the aid of a TelePrompter that he's able to come off as so eloquent. Without the TelePrompter, he's just a regular guy, or maybe not even that. This is part of a larger, racially driven narrative that suggests Obama only got into the universities he attended because of affirmative action, or at times that he actually didn't go to either Columbia or Harvard. Offhand references to TelePrompters have been big laugh lines in conservative speeches for the last several years, despite the fact that every national politician since the invention of the device has used it.
What I hadn't put together previously, was that this weird obsession might derive from some cockeyed Sarah Palin origin myth. Until "Game Change" got to Palin's convention speech, I'd forgotten that the TelePrompter supposedly died on her halfway through, meaning she just winged it the rest of the way. I don't buy this — the Palin portrayed earlier in the film doesn't seem like the sort to be able to memorize her entire speech, and the Palin we saw in real life doesn't seem like the sort to be able to string together a coherent 10-15 minutes to fill out her time slot — and Politico disputed it at the time, but a myth is a myth. Later in the film, Palin demands the opportunity to give her own concession speech and orders a campaign staffer to "load it in the TelePrompter," and of course she and every other national Republican are frequent TelePrompter users.
Several years later, cue Rick Santorum calling for the outlawing of presidential candidates using TelePrompters. Why? "Because all you're doing is reading someone else's words to people." Presumably President Santorum will have no speechwriters.


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I hope this helps with any questions regarding how round one of the draft will work…
- Your team is randomly placed into a subdivision with five other teams. Each gymnast can only appear once in each subdivision. With eight athletes per team and six teams per subdivision, it means 48 athletes must be used.
- Since Wieber, Komova, Douglas, Mustafina, Iordache, and Raisman are the six most popular gymnasts being submitted for teams, each team will only be allowed ONE of these six. With these gymnasts and if other gymnasts appear on multiple teams in your subdivision, we use a random.org generator to decide who gets that athlete. Your chances of getting a specific athlete depend upon how high she is on your priority list, and how many other teams have that athlete.
- EXAMPLES: (1) If only one team chooses Alexandra Raisman, that team will automatically get her. (2) If Gabrielle Douglas is #1 on your list and two other lists, the assignment will be randomly generated. If you do not receive your first choice, we will go down the list to your second choice, and so on.
- Not everyone will get first or second choice athletes but we are doing our best to make sure everyone gets a fair shot!
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October 31, 2014
It was a streak for the record books... almost! Dallas residents had endured 40 consecutive days with triple digit temperatures, and were just two days away from tying an all time record set over three decades ago!
By 2:00pm the temperature at Dallas-Ft. Worth had reached up to 96°, and 100° was very much in sight. However, a nearby thunderstorm sent out a cool outflow in the direction of the Metroplex, which sent temperatures down to 84° within minutes!
But the heat was determined to not go down without a fight, and by 4:33 PM, the temperature had recovered all the way back to 97°! But that was as close as they'd get to seeing a 41st consecutive day in the triple digits. Were it not for a tiny thunderstorm that never did rain over the city, we'd be talking about history being made tomorrow! Residents of Dallas probably don't mind the "lucky break."
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Regional jail foe files suit to stop project
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A vocal opponent of the regional jail filed a lawsuit in Shenandoah County Circuit Court seeking to stop the multi-million dollar project under way in Warren County.
The complaint filed Monday and provided to the Daily late the same night by the plaintiff, Mark W. Prince, names as defendants Suntrust Bank, the Virginia Resource Authority, the Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren Regional Jail Authority and the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors. Prince, of Toms Brook, filed the motion for declaratory judgments, noting in the document "he is a taxpayer representing himself and all other simularly situated."
In an e-mail Prince states Shenandoah County would have saved $34 million on the project had the board of supervisors put the matter of borrowing money for the project on the ballot as a bond referendum.
The complaint includes motions to declare null and void the RSW Regional Jail Authority service agreement; the bonds issued by the jail authority and guaranteed by the board of supervisors; the bonds issued by the Virginia Resources Authority to buy the jail bonds; and the jail authority note in favor of Suntrust bank.
Prince claims the Virginia state code stipulates that Shenandoah County's participation in a regional jail must last a minimum of 30 years. The complaint also states that in order for the county to comply with code, the state constitution must have been complied with and agreements in excess of one year must be "approved by a vote of the citizens of the County of Shenandoah."
As Prince claims, the supervisors entered into the service agreement, which contains contractual obligations to make payments over a period of more than one year to the jail authority, "without approval by a majority vote of the qualified voters voting in an election of the question of contracting such debt."
Prince and other Shenandoah County residents have spoken out against the RSW Regional Jail over concerns about the final price of the project, ongoing operational costs to run the facility and have even questioned the legality of the jail authority's actions to acquire the funding through bond sales. Meanwhile the early stages of construction continue at the site on Winchester Road in Warren County.
As to the jail bonds, Prince "prays that this Honorable Court declare the RSW Regional Jail Authority bonds to not be a valid debt of the taxpayers of Shenandoah County nor the RSW Regional Jail Authority, and that payments on such bonds be enjoined as set forth in the aforesaid Virginia Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court rulings."
Prince states in his complaint that the court should render the bonds null and void, noting the Virginia Resources Authority "bought the bonds after Moody's Rating Service and Standard and Poor's Rating Service apparently chose not to allow their ratings, if any, to be used for sale of such bonds to the general public."
Prince claims Moody's chose not to stand behind such rating issued in March. Virginia Resources Authority pulled the jail bonds from the sale set for May 22. Before the regional jail authority held another meeting, the Virginia Resources Authority sold the bonds in June and "used those proceeds to purchase the dubious RSW Regional Jail Authority Bonds."
Prince claims the Virginia Resources Authority failed to comply with state code in selling the bonds.
The jail authority approved a note in favor of Suntrust on May 31 which matures more than one year from the date of issue. However, as Prince claims, state code requires such a certificate of indebtedness be approved by a majority vote of qualified voters which did not happen.


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Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I changed jobs recently, I also had to change gyms. I'm now using the airforce base gym by work, a perk of working for the government. I like having to show an ID at the checkpoint on my way in (I feel like an agent or something) and I really like that it's free. The drawback is that everyone there is super strong and intense. I feel like a loser lifting dinky little weights.
On Thursday, I tried to toughen up and get a hard workout in. By the time I made it home, I had worked up quite an appetite. After shoveling in dinner, I decided cookies would also be needed. You know, t help me recover. I started with a Cook's Illustrated recipe, halving it and tightening up the directions a bit for ease. To the chocolate base, I added white chocolate chunks leftover from the TWD tarts. These hit the spot.
After eating a few, now I need to head back to the gym.
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Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 1 1/2 dozen
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
5 tbs unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 oz white chocolate, roughly chopped
Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl; set aside. Melt chocolate in medium heatproof bowl set over pan of almost-simmering water, stirring once or twice, until smooth; remove from heat (or use the microwave). Beat eggs and vanilla lightly with fork, set aside.
In bowl of standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment (or with hand mixer), beat butter at medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 5 seconds (15 seconds with hand mixer). Beat in sugars until combined, about 45 seconds (1 1/2 minutes with hand mixer); mixture will look granular. Reduce speed to low and gradually beat in egg mixture until incorporated, about 45 seconds (1 1/2 minutes with hand mixer). Add chocolate in steady stream and beat until combined, about 40 seconds (1 minute with hand mixer). Scrape bottom and sides of bowl with rubber spatula. With mixer at low speed, add flour mixture and mix until combined, about 40 seconds (1 minute with hand mixer). Drop in the white chocolate to distribute. Do not overbeat. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature until consistency is scoopable and fudgelike, about 30 minutes. Note, this dough is difficult to work with after refrigerated, I'd advise against freezing unless you o=portion the dough out while still at room temp.
Meanwhile, adjust oven racks to upper- and lower-middle positions and heat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Leaving about 1 1/2-inches between each ball, scoop dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheets with 1 3/4-inch diameter ice cream scoop.
Bake cookies until edges have just begun to set but centers are still very soft, about 10 minutes, turning cookie sheets from front to back and switching from top to bottom racks halfway through baking.
Cool cookies on sheets about 10 minutes, slide parchment with cookies onto wire rack and cool to room temperature; remove with wide metal spatula.
Peanut Butter Brownie Crispies
I'm a little late with superbowl recipes, but at least there are still a few hours before kick off. This recipe goes well beyond just football, but the combo of peanut butter cups, peanuts, chocolate, brownies and rice krispies sounded pretty pig out pig skin to me. To keep things easy, just use your favorite brownie recipe for the base (I used my go to recipe with lots of bittersweet chocolate). In the last few minutes of baking, spread a bunch of chopped up peanut butter cups and salted peanuts and let those melt. Finally, top with rice krispies mixed with melted chocolate and peanut butter.
Tom Brady helped me make them.
Peanut Butter Brownie Crispies
based on a recipe from How Sweet Eats
1 batch brownies
1/2 cup salted peanuts
1 1/4 cup chopped Reese's peanut butter cups
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
Mix brownies according to directions, and bake in a 9 x 13 baking dish. About 5 minutes before the brownies are done baking, remove from the oven and top with peanuts and peanut butter cups. Return to the oven.
While they are finishing baking, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Stir in cereal. Remove brownies from oven and evenly pour chocolate mixture over top.
Refrigerate for 2 hours before serving. Makes about 20 bars.
Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies
Just a slight twist on regular old chocolate chip cookies. I saw these on the pioneer woman (sidebar- I'm still not sure about her show. She's just a little too rich and I'm a little too jealous). Anywho, she made these cookies super flat. I like flat cookies but I think they're not as good after 1 or 2 days. So instead I gave these the NYT treatment- a little fridge time- and then baked them cold. Still pretty flat but nice and chewy. They bake really well straight from frozen too- just add a few extra minutes to the baking time. The malt flavor is a light change but a nice one.
Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted from the Pioneer Woman
1 cup (2 Sticks) Unsalted Butter, Softened
3/4 cups Brown Sugar
3/4 cups Sugar
2 whole Eggs
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 cups All-purpose Flour
1-1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
3/4 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup (rounded) Malted Milk Powder
1 bag (12 Ounce) Semi sweet or bittersweet Chocolate Chips
Cream butter, then add both sugars and cream until fluffy. Add eggs and beat slightly, then add vanilla and beat until combined. Add malted milk powder and beat until combined.
Mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to butter mixture, beating gently until just combined.
Add chocolate chips and stir in gently. Wrap up the bowl and leave it in the fridge over night (or scoop out and freeze). When you are ready to bake, scoop the dough by heaping tablespoons onto a lined sheet pan. Leave an inch and a half between the mounds of dough.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool slightly on the pan and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
I've tried several different blondie recipes over the last few years and wasn't satisfied with any of them. I like a nice thick blondie, slightly under done in the middle. Every recipe I've tried was thin and not quite soft enough. No perfect bars to be found.
Ed actually made a dessert request for blondies, which is rare because he's not a baked good guy. So, instead of enduring another disappointing bar, I made some changes. I doubled the recipe and used the same size tin. It was that easy. Perfect blondies were mine (ours) at last!
ps- I brought these for a visit at someone's house so I made the above single serving with a bit of the dough.
makes 16 bars
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 stick unsalted butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 large eggs, at room temp
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips (I like bittersweet chips)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8 inch square baking pan with heavy duty aluminum foil, making sure the foil is tucked into all corners and that there is at least 1 inch overhang around the top of the pan on all sides. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Melt the butter in the microwave on low, I like to cut it up into tbs pieces first. In a stand mixer (or by hand) beat the melted butter and brown sugar until sugar dissolves. Beat in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture until just incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Pour batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake until they are just set in the center, about 45 minutes. Let them cool completely on a wire rack. Grasping the overhanging foil, remove the blondies and place on a cutting board. Cut into 16 squares. They will keep at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Kid's Thumbprints
First, the cookies: Peanut buttery dough filled with jam or chocolate (chocolate was an easy choice for me). The dough is rolled in chopped peanuts for some crunchy goodness. I made them extra big so I could use my bigger than kid sized thumbs to make the imprint. So good, even after a week filled with treats. As fitting with my typical M.O., I ate one for breakfast. Dorie has the recipe posted on her blog.
And with that, our little baking group has finished every recipe in Baking from My Home to Yours. I missed a week here and there, but I'd say I have most of the book completed. And many of recipes are now go to recipes. I've made the tall and creamy cheesecake 4 times in the last year alone (including for Christmas eve), the carrot cake is requested for many birthdays, the rhubarb crisp is my summery favorite… There are too many to mention. In addition to honing some baking skills and getting pretty comfortable putting my own twist on a recipe, this group has provided great friendship more than anything. I even found that one of the bakers lived less than a mile down the street from me (Hi Jennifer!) The internet and good people can make some pretty good stuff happen.
The other week, bakers were emailing me their photos so we could get a gift for Dorie, Laurie, and Jules together and it was so great to see the pictures as they came in. I loved seeing everyone with their much loved books. Thank you to the bakers for sharing your successes and screw ups every week, and for providing sweet encouraging comments. Thanks to Laurie and Jules for keeping us going- no easy task. And thanks for Dorie for writing a recipe full of the best recipes- definitely worthy of four years of baking! Love you all so much!
Thomas Keller's Oreos
I had such big plans for holiday baking. Then I decided it would be a good idea to double the number of spinning classes I taught this week and announce that I was leaving my full time job for a new position. That, and we were out of eggs. Once I finally hit the grocery store last night, I got to baking.
These homemade oreos were on the list for dinner with friends and there daughters last night. They are a familiar enough treat, but the recipe elevates them to something much more special. Deeply chocolate cookies and creamy white chocolate filling. The filling was a little thin, even after I added some confectioners sugar, so it dripped out of the sides. Didn't seem to bother anyone much.
now, back to the kitchen. cheesecakes, chocolate cakes and candies to come! Must finish up before the Pats game. Hope you all have a nice Christmas.
Thomas Keller's Oreos
from The Essence of Chocolate, by Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger
3/4 cup sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa plus 1 tablespoon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
15 tablespoons (7 1/2 oz) unsalted butter, cut into 3/4-inch cubes, at room temperature
1/2 cup heavy cream
8 oz white chocolate, finely chopped
To make the filling: In a small saucepan, bring the cream to a boil over medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat and add the white chocolate, making sure it is all immersed in the cream. Let stand for 1 minute then whisk to completely melt the chocolate and incorporate it.
Transfer the filling to a small bowl and let it stand for 6 hours, or until it thickens enough to spread. If the filling hardens too much, it can be rewarmed in the microwave.
To make the cookies: Preheat oven to 350 F with racks in the upper and lower thirds. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt on low speed until combined. With the mixer still on low speed, add the butter a few pieces at a time until it is all in the bowl. The dough will be sandy at first, but it will eventually begin to come together. When it does, stop the mixer.
Transfer the dough to a work surface and form it into a block about 5 by 7 inches. Cut the block into 2 pieces. Working with one half at a time, roll the dough on a lightly floured work surface until it is 1/8-inch thick. Using a 2-inch round cookie cutter, cut rounds from the dough and place them 1/2 to 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheets. You can reroll the scraps of dough once to cut more cookies. I stuck the cookies in the freezer for 5-10 minutes before baking to prevent spreading.
Bake for 12-14 minutes, rotating the baking sheets halfway through. Remove the baking sheets from the oven and let the cookies cool on them for 4-5 minutes. (The cookies will be very soft and fragile when they come out of the oven so you won't be able to remove them successfully unless you wait a few minutes.) Transfer to a wire rack and let the cookies cool completely.
To assemble the cookies: Turn half of the cookies over so the side that was down on the baking sheet faces up. Whisk the filling briefly to fluff it up. Transfer the filling to a disposable pastry bag and cut a small hole in the tip of the bag. Pipe about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the filling in the center of each cookie you flipped over. Top with another cookie, and gently press the cookies together until the filling spreads evenly to the edge. The cookies keep in an airtight container for 3 days.
Makes about 24 sandwich cookies
Snickery Squares
I missed this TWD recipe the first go around but I had to go back and make it before the group wraps up. Why? Chocolate, caramel, peanut, shortbread. Satisfies the hunger inside you. Have one for breakfast and it will be your best morning ever.
The base is shortbread, and it was supposed to be pricked with a fork and baked. It was a little fussy with me so I gave it 15 minutes in the freezer first and that did the trick. I substituted honey roasted peanuts to skip a step. With that and some store bought dulce de leche, these were super simple. Alas, not simple to cut and make pretty. I'm pretty sure the folks at work will enjoy them none the less.
The original recipe was selected by Erin. I've made some adaptations reflected below.
Snickery Squares
Recipe adapted from Dorie Greenspan
For the Crust:
1 cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup sugar
2 TBSP powdered sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 stick unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and chilled
1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten
For the Filling:
1 1/4 cups honey roasted peanuts
About 1 ½ cups store-bought dulce de leche
For the Topping:
7 ounces bittersweet, coarsely chopped
½ stick unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces, at room temperature
Getting Ready:
Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8 inch square pan with tin foil, grease it, and put it on a baking sheet.
To Make the Crust:
Toss the flour, sugar, powdered sugar and salt into a food processor and pulse a few times to combine. Toss in the pieces of cold butter and pulse about 12 times, until the mixture looks like coarse meal. Pour the yolk over the ingredients and pulse until the dough forms clumps and curds-stop before the dough comes together in a ball.
Turn the dough into the buttered pan and gently press it evenly across the bottom of the pan. Put the crust in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Prick the dough with a fork and slide the sheet into the oven.
Bake the crust for 15-20 minutes, or until it takes on just a little color around the edges. Transfer the pan to a rack and cool to room temperature before filling. The crust can be made a day ahead.
To Make the Filling:
Divide the nuts in half. Keep half of the nuts whole or in biggish pieces for the filling, and finely chop the other half for the topping.
Spread the dulce de leche over the shortbread base and sprinkle over the whole nuts.
To Make the Topping:
Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Remove chocolate from the heat and gently stir in the butter, stirring until it is fully blended into the chocolate.
Pour the chocolate over the dulce de leche, smoothing it with a long metal icing spatula, then sprinkle over the rest of the peanuts. Slide the pan into the fridge to set the topping, about 20 minutes; if you'd like to serve the squares cold, keep them refrigerated for at least 3 hours before cutting.
Cut into 16 bars.
Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies
Tracey did a great run down of holiday baking options and these cookies caught my eye. Chocolate peppermint bark on a base of shortbread. So easy and they look so great.
This is one of those recipes that I didn't read all the way through before making it. I baked the shortbread, took it out of the oven and headed off to the dog park with my boy.
Came back to read that I should have but the chocolate on while warm to melt and spread. Oh well. Melted it in a double boiler and spread it on top. NBD. These cookies are making the rounds a two christmas parties and one dinner this weekend. Now I just have to finalize the rest of the holiday baking for the week ahead…too many options!
Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies
from Bon Appetit, December 2009 (Epicurious)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg yolk
6 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate (I like a mix), chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped red-and-white striped hard peppermint candies or candy canes
2 ounces high-quality white chocolate
Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray 13 x 9 x 2-inch metal baking pan with nonstick spray. Line the bottom of pan with parchment paper or tinfoil, leaving an overhang on both short sides of the pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter until creamy, about 2 minutes. Gradually add sugar, beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, stopping occasionally to scrape down sides of bowl, about 3 minutes. Beat in vanilla, then egg yolk. Gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed just to blend.
Drop dough by tablespoonfuls into prepared baking pan, spacing evenly. Using moistened fingertips, press dough to form even layer over bottom of pan. Pierce dough all over with fork.
Bake cookie base until light golden brown and slightly puffed and edges begin to come away from sides of pan, about 30 minutes. Place pan on rack; immediately sprinkle bittersweet chocolate over the top. Let stand until chocolate softens, about 3 minutes. Using small offset spatula, spread bittersweet chocolate over top of cookie in thin even layer. Immediately sprinkle chopped peppermint candies/candy canes over.
Stir white chocolate in medium metal bowl set over saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth. (Alternatively, melt the chocolate in the microwave on 50% power for 30 second bursts, stirring after each burst.) Transfer the chocolate to a resealable plastic bag, snip a corner and drizzle the chocolate over the cookies. Chill until the white chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.
Using the parchment overhang, lift the cookies from pan and transfer to work surface. Using a large knife, cut the cookies into irregular pieces (I like triangles!).
World Peace & Peppermint Cookies
After a day spent trimming the tree, I baked up a few of these cookies and headed into Boston with friends. I snuck a few in my purse for us to enjoy while watching the new twilight movie (so bad, but so so good).
I started with Dorie Greenspan's World Peace Cookies and added a few crushed up candy canes. The cookies were pretty perfect for the holidays. Deeply chocolate with a sweet peppermint crunch every once in awhile. Not too sweet so you can eat more than one.
I baked these as part of Di's virtual cookie exchange. So fun! Can't wait to see what everyone baked.
World Peace & Peppermint Cookies
Based on a Dorie Greenspan recipe
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
11 tablespoons (1 stick plus 3 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature
2/3 cup (packed) brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
5 ounces extra-bittersweet chocolate (do not exceed 85% cacao), chopped (no pieces bigger than 1/3 inch)
2 Candy Canes, crushed into small pieces
Sift flour, cocoa, and baking soda into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until smooth but not fluffy. Add both sugars, vanilla, and sea salt; beat until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add flour mixture; beat just until blended (mixture may be crumbly). Add chopped chocolate and candy canes; mix just to distribute (if dough doesn't come together, knead lightly in bowl to form ball). Divide dough in half. Place each half on sheet of plastic wrap. Form each into 1 1/2-inch-diameter log. Wrap each in plastic; chill until firm, about 3 hours. DO AHEAD: Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep chilled.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Using thin sharp knife, cut logs crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick rounds. Space 1 inch apart on prepared sheets. Bake 1 sheet at a time until cookies appear dry (cookies will not be firm or golden at edges), 11 to 12 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.
Cornflake Cookies
Momofuku! This cookie recipe is from the Momofuku cookbook and I used that name in place of swear words several times in the making of these cookies. When I tasted the dough (holy momofuku it was good!) When I baked the first round at the wrong temperature (momofuku!) Each round there after trying to get the cookies right (momfuku!) This is a tough recipe to bake. The dough needs to be cold, the oven temp has to be perfect, and you have to watch them so carefully.
However, the finished cookies are really unique and fun. Crispy cornflake crunchies, gooey marshmallows, and globs of chocolate. I'll make them again, if only to eat the cookie dough and not mess with the fussy baking.
ps- left over cornflake crunchies are perfect on top of ice cream sundaes
Recipe found on the daily candy website
Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
Makes fifteen to twenty
16 tbsp. (2 sticks) room-temperature butter
1¼ c. granulated sugar
2/3 c. light brown sugar, tightly packed
1 egg
½ tsp. vanilla extract
1½ c. flour
½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
1½ tsp. kosher salt
3 c. Cornflake Crunch
2/3 c. mini chocolate chips (regular size works fine too)
1¼ c. mini marshmallows
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter and sugars; cream together on medium-high 2-3 minutes. With a spatula, scrape down sides of bowl, then add egg and vanilla and beat 7-8 minutes.
Reduce speed to low; add flour, baking powder and soda, and salt. Mix just until dough comes together, no longer than 1 minute. (Do not walk away from the machine during this step or risk overmixing.) Scrape down sides of bowl.
Still on low speed, paddle in cornflakes and chips until just incorporated, about 30-45 seconds. Paddle in marshmallows.
Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Using a 2-oz. ice cream scoop, portion 1/3 c. dough at a time onto pan. Pat tops of dough domes flat. Wrap pan tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 1 week. (Do not bake room-temperature disks — they will not hold their shape.) Spike's notes: 1 hour isn't long enough, I'd leave them for at least 4 hours before attempting to bake.
Heat oven to 375°. On a parchment- or Silpat-lined sheet pan, arrange chilled disks a minimum of 4 inches apart. Bake 18 minutes, until cookies are browned on edges and just beginning to brown toward the center. Cookies will puff, crackle, and spread. Leave them in oven for another minute or so if they still seem pale and doughy on the surface. Spike's notes: Start checking around 12 minutes, cookies get thin and lacey and start to burn quickly at the edges.
Cool cookies completely on pan before moving them to a plate or an airtight container for storage. Spike's notes: It is important to let them cool on the pan, if you try to move them while still warm, they will fall apart. Use a thin metal spatula to move when they are cool. At room temperature, cookies will keep fresh for 5 days; in the freezer, they will keep for 1 month.


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