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How to throw a large room party at a science fiction convention While all the advice won’t apply to most parties, there’s some great hints for entertaining here. “Very small insecure paper plates will enable your guests to load up a handful of cookies or veggie bits and carry them off to wherever they’re conversing, but won’t encourage malfeasants to carry off a half-pound of chocolates when they leave.”

A Caesar salad without raw egg does not deserve the name “This is, in fact, why it is now essentially impossible to obtain a decent Caesar in any restaurant in these benighted States; they are afraid of the potential legal liability if you should come down with salmonella upon eating raw egg (a highly unlikely eventuality). They’re all these dainty, tasteless little things with a faint lemon vinaigrette and a dusting of parmesan on top of Romaine. Curse their cowardly souls.”

The Truth About Our Food That Nobody Heard “Did we just read that our government allows the planting of genetically engineered crops, whose safety is unknown, without a WRITTEN plan for keeping those crops from contaminating anything planted around them, or the entire environment, for that matter? And did Mr. Young just tell us that inspections are done with a phone call?”