I grow more and more frustrated with the apathy of our population. And this is exacerbated when I see bourbon-besotted bozos like John Boehner lying with impunity to the American public and putting party before the economic future of our country.
Category: General
Mmmmmm….beer
In these days of the explosion of craft beers, it becomes more and more important to determine what truly IS a beer. This is what the Australian government defines as beer (from the recently amended Excise Tariff Act 1921): Beer…
I’ll Take Personal Dignity for $400, Alex.
The blockbuster news yesterday of the resignation of Best Buy’s CEO Brian Dunn – and subsequent fall-out indicating that there are “personal misconduct” issues that led to it – made me wonder: would you rather be a relatively anonymous middle-class…
How much weight do you “push” during a push-up?
Jihad Against Designers of Spare-Tire Storage Mechanisms!
I left work a week ago with about an hour to spare before the evening’s next activity. As I backed my van from the stall at my company’s parking garage, something felt amiss; it didn’t turn correctly. I drove about a hundred feet with the sinking realization that I had a flat tire.
Arrested Development
Lately I’ve been giggling every time I use my vehicle. As my spouse has the furthest to travel – and thus has dibs on the most fuel efficient ride – “my” vehicle has become the standard suburban minivan. This, in and of itself, has not lead to my fits of self-induced hilarity. On the contrary, most often it produces worries that I am becoming Chevy Chase in Vacation…
100 Pushups
My latest attempt at getting back on the fitness bandwagon began in typical Internet-segue fashion with the quest for a solution to a nagging software problem.
A Big To-Do about Avian Flu!
Could this be the cure? A new “quickie” vaccine that: Only takes a month to produce Doesn’t require live virus to create Has a 100% protection rate! Too good to be true? Let’s hope not.
Brew gogs
You know the old adage about how they, “get better looking at closing time.”? Turns out there’s a scientific reason for so-called “beer goggles”! Alcohol apparently tends to affect your nucleus accumbens (oooh, now there’s a dirty word!), and causes…
A Call to Action
Some pithy words by georgia10 at dailykos. A sampling: Democrats can either surrender this government to a party which seeks to destroy it, or we can take Lincoln’s advice and play our available cards.  To those who say filibusters–judicial, patriot…