Welcome to Lazy Man Cooks! — the channel where culinary chaos meets comfort food. I'm Craig, a retired journalist who traded press passes for pasta and deadlines for dumplings. These days, I’m cooking up easy meals for folks who are hungry but not in a hurry.

For 20 years I have hosted a site for user-supported news commenting at trailmix.cc

I’ve also written a few books:
🔹 The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World
www.amazon.com/dp/0742552519
🔹 Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media
www.amazon.com/dp/0742538168
🔹 Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do
www.amazon.com/dp/1439148155

More about me:
🔹 Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Crawford

Featured Series:
🍲 Lazy Man Cooks! (the Full Menu)
🍳 Power Breakfast
🔥 Lazy Man’s Chicken Series
🪓 Buckets Playlists (Kitchen Gadgets & Hacks)
🦷 My Denture Adventure (Eating Without Real Teeth)


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‪@RoyCooperNC‬ is storming the NC Senate race, ready to flip a seat and save Democrats millions. A genuinely decent politician winning elections? Terrifying.
From today's Digital Diner menu 🍽️
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12 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Eleanor Roosevelt argued policy with FDR nightly. He stole her talking points, enacted her policies, and NEVER admitted she was right. A brutal history lesson in political marriages.
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14 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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As we used to say in the newsroom, this story’s “got legs”… let’s keep it on the diner menu tomorrow.

It’s more than just another reality-tops-satire Trump meltdown: A sitting U.S. President is engaged in a theological street fight with the first American Pope.

And the Vatican’s response? They didn’t take the bait. Instead, they dropped a statement that basically calls the President’s tantrum a “declaration of impotence.” They noted he’s begging the Pope to use a language he can control, but the Church operates on a standard he can’t buy, bully, or bankrupt.

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16 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Autocrats do not just walk away. Viktor Orban suddenly conceding is not democracy in action. It is a backroom deal to dodge a prison cell. We break down his ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card.
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16 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Marco Rubio cries himself to sleep over his lost soul, while JD Vance gleefully rolls with the degradation because he is an actual shape-shifting weasel. Peak political analysis right here.
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17 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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The US just started blockading the Strait of Hormuz. We launch more billion-dollar 'military operations" without congressional approval and act like it is totally normal. Welcome to the dumpster fire.
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19 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Autocrats throwing tantrums while the Pope preaches peace. It is the absolute purest distillation of our current global dumpster fire. Watch Trump and the Vatican collide in under 30 seconds.

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19 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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The current occupant of the White House posted an AI meme of himself as Jesus (trying to resurrect Jeffrey Epstein?). You literally cannot invent this level of derangement, even though he did take it down later.
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21 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Trump Takes On The World, Even The Pope
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍🍽️
🎙️Chat begins at 11am (ET) until NOON:
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22 hours ago | [YT] | 0

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Hungarians just handed us a masterclass in how to scrape a democracy off the pavement. After sixteen years of Viktor Orbán treating their constitution like cheap toilet paper, the voters didn't just tweet their frustration—they physically showed up and jammed the gears of his autocracy. It turns out that when you stop complaining about how the system is rigged and actually use the system to outvote the riggers, dictators panic.
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