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 RECIPE Dad’s Easy Homemade Pizza Ingredients: • Slices of bread • Spaghetti sauce • Shredded cheese • Spices and herbs • Toppings Steps: 1. Spoon sauce (I used Prego) on the bread and spread it around. 2. Add your herbs and spices. (I use ground pepper, garlic, herbs, and Italian herbs) 3. Sprinkle on the cheese (I used mozzarella, but any kind will do.) 4. Add your toppings (I used meatballs and a little onion. Even sliced hot dogs – for boys) 5. Place on a baking sheet and put in the oven for about 8-10 minutes at 400F.  Watch carefully until it's just right.  Sprinkle on some grated parmesan. It tastes as good as any pizza - maybe except your favorite.  Enjoy.

When I was much younger, like an undergrad, I’d go out with friends for maybe a pizza and the discussion would be enjoined.   We’d argue this way and that, about one view or another.   We’d argue on and on until the pizza was long gone and bedtime or study time was upon us. Few feelings were hurt by the other. After all, it was just opinions shot back and forth.   The critical value of an opinion is in its flux of belief . It can or could be changed. Today, it’s different. When venturing onto websites of columnists, especially those of contributors, opinions are no longer changeable.   They are fixed, hardened, even cast as metal. Modern students are about the same, most with cast-iron views, not to be changed by anyone, any way, anyhow. The point here is you can’t call it an opinion unless you can cite something that someone can do or say to change it.   It rare we see this. What is slapped down on the page is not opinion but absolute truth in the mind of the contributor

Do you like pizza?  Of course, you do.  I do too. But did you know cheese contains casomorphins, which have an opioid-like effect? Indeed,  concentrated dairy products, like cheese, have especially high levels of opiates, even morphine.* The argument is you get hooked on cheese because of these opioid-like chemicals.  Naturally, this means most humans over all of time were addicted in this way.   Strange but so claimed.  The next thing we will see is a push to eliminate pizza. California will be first. "Keep the aliens; deport the pizza."  Let's have pizza tonight - double the cheese, please. :) I can see it now, the Mexican drug cartels opening pizza parlors offering "special pizza" delivered, though delivery may take a month or two.  *Just Google "cheese and opioids"