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Happy New Year, You Assholes

Hello everyone, and welcome back from the Christmaeidhanakwanzika break that seemed to linger on forever. We'll be ramping back up to our normal schedule this week, and to celebrate that fact, I'm making a sweet potato pound cake. I couldn't tell you why I'm doing this, other than that I saw the recipe on NPR, and I happened to have some extra sweet potatoes lying around.

I think I should put banana in it. How do you feel about that? It could work, but then it could also backfire miserably. Why not just make banana bread and the pound cake? Why do I have to be such a choosy asshole? I'm gonna go pick some pecans out of my yard now to use for the topping.

Update (1:44pm): After about 90 minutes of mixing the batter (by hand, I really need a mixer), I finally put this beast in the oven.

Update (2:04pm): This cake smells ridonkulous already.

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Hell. Yes.

And now, I vent some steam.

NPR reported today that despite OPEC's decision to slash production by a drastic 1.5 million barrels a year, the market value of crude oil has continued its downward spiral (today landing at $64.51). They're attempting to shore up prices since currently a barrel sells for less than half of what it did back in July. I'll take that as a sign Western nations have finally said "f*ck you" to an oil-driven domestic energy strategy, as well as oil-producing nations (and companies) who have systematically reamed us up the wallet since last year. It signals a definite course correction in the mindset of Americans in particular.

We needed to see how bad it could get before we decided to make a change.

Thank for you that.

We laugh at you, sir. We laugh.

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