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  I've been cooking Mississippi catfish for years, in a wide variety of ways.  No basa, no imports, your article is dead on.  I'm scared of basa and you may as well eat tofu as eat tilapia.  Well farmed catfish has a mildly sweet flavor and you should cut out any blood line if present.  I like to bread in either panko crumbs or corn flake crumbs and bake it.  The corn flake crusted comes out very much like it was dusted in cornmeal and fried southern style but without all the grease!  bob

  On What's the dish on farm-raised catfish? posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago 9 Responses

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  The answer is mass transit not more fuel of anykind.  In my humble city of Lexington, KY of around 250,000 light rail and street cars would take 75% of the traffic off the road.  Most cities of any size used to have street cars, but the auto, oil and tire industries bought them and shut them down.  Time to bring them back.  I would much rather spend my hour commute reading than driving.

  On Et tu, Al? Franken gulps the ethanol-spiked Kool-Aid posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  Acting Assistant Administrator Michael H. Shapiro writes: I understand the importance of coal mining in Appalachia for jobs, the economy and meeting the nation’s energy needs.

  Please Mr. Shapiro, Appalachia has been raped for two centuries and no company that has ever made a profit off of the natural resources of the area has EVER contributed to the economy there or provided any meaningful jobs.  There are very few real JOBS with the coal companies now most people are hired as contractors without any benefits and must maintain their own equipment.  For that reason we see overloaded coal trucks with bad breaks wreaking havoc on the roads in addition to the environmental destruction.

  Google Wendell Berry's "Speech Against the State Government", he is the most eloquent on this issue.  He quotes Harry Caudill in 1965 who was fighting strip mining even then who spoke of:  "the gleeful yahoos who are destroying the world, and the mindless oafs who abet them".

  Mr. Shapiro, you are a mindless oaf.

   

  On EPA clears waterboarding for Appalachia posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago 7 Responses