Your Evening Sift

It was a slow day today in the SoFla blogosphere so this won't slow you down at all, readers. After you're through with the evening Sift, check out the Weekend Widget in the right sidebar and then come back at 10 tonight for the Turndown Service.

A- Bark Bark Woof Woof turns 60 tomorrow and looks as if his patio is all ready for it.

Tomorrow is my sixtieth birthday. I don't normally go in for big celebrations, but 60 seems like a pretty big number, so I decided to invite some friends over for some drinks and light fare and -- of course -- some cake.

B- Are PB&J's racist? Thank goodness Man or Maniac? finds that they are not.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have become ubiquitous in school cafeterias not because they reinforce any level of white privilege; they are wide spread because they are cheap to make, and packed full of nutrients. Further, the popularity of peanut butter and other peanut products have supported generations of black farmers, who were convinced to plant the crop by a black man, George Washington Carver.

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