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**Lies & excuses**. There is always an excuse for everything, even things that don’t require excusing.
30 Red Flags of Manipulative People | Narcissist, Sociopath, and Psychopath Abuse Recovery
psychopathfree.com
It's too convenient to label bad people as mentally ill. What drove this young man was hate not mental illness. I understand why the non-mentally ill would like to exclude this violence from their potential, but we don't need to pathologize hate and murder. Hate is a normal human emotion. And hate is the motivator for most homicides. I see no reason why we need to separate hate that leads to an individual murder from hate that leads to mass murder.
This Is Not Really About Mental Illness. It Is Really About Misogyny
dailykos.com
Perhaps the most important efficiency in this respect is cauldron cookery. In a large cauldron of brass or iron, several things can be cooked at once. Meat can be inserted in an earthenware jug with herbs and salt (hence ‘jugged hare’) and cooked alongside vegetables in a net within the boiling water, with the juices adding to the cauldron water to make a pottage broth. Puddings too can be cooked in this way, and they can be made with almost any form of ingredients. Cauldron cookery is especially useful where charcoal or coal is the only available fuel: the acrid coal smoke prevents broiling or roasting but does not harm the food in a simmering cauldron.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
Ian Mortimer
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