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This ghost pepper salsa from SilverLeaf is really good. It has a nice burn, while not quite as hot as I had expected, and a great garlic taste to balance it out. I also tried some of their "Fiery Hot" habanero salsa, which provided a relatively soothing cool-down. Get your capsaicin-induced endorphin rush!

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I made a thai style coconut milk red curry with matsutake, shiitake, and wood ear mushroomsand enough scotch bonnet peppers that my lips are still burning half an hour after eating. Recipe follows:

Tonight I am drinking beer and tequila and making black bean and soy chicken fajitas.

I love eggnog. The creamy, custardy goodness has be flying at half-mast the entire holiday season. Its particularly good when its home-made, if you ask me, but its a little bit of a hassle. That is, of course, until I perfected this simple method!

...and the food fetishist's wet dream.

What [the UM police and the FBI] were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

Carroll would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest. No exact dollar figure was offered.

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Australian scientists might try a kangaroo intestinal bacteria transplant for cows in order to give them the 'roo's magical methane-free farts and thus aid the War on Global Warming.

But as someone quoted in the article says, perhaps they should just eat more kangaroo meat. Because, you know, kangaroos actually belong in Australia and can survive much more easily than the imported, antibiotic-loaded crap factories.

UK chocolates Teasers and Truffles no longer useful for testes comparisons:

We were recently dismayed to discover that the manufacturer has changed the shape of both these chocolates. Both are now flat bottomed, and even non-specialists will notice that they bear little resemblance to testes. More disturbingly, they are no longer much use for assessing testicular volume. Only one of six paediatric endocrine specialists (comprising trainees, consultants, and specialist nurses) felt confident that they could use the new Teasers or Truffles to gauge testicular volume relative to the 8 ml cut-off which indicates that puberty is proceeding satisfactorily.