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August 11, 2007

Signs of the Apocalypse [UPDATED]

Markos Moulwhatever — “Kos” — will be debating Harold Ford Jr on “Meet the Press” this Sunday. Kos, evidently, is going to tell us all where the “real” center of American public opinion lies. Just as he did in a Washington Post editorial. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: the American “center”? Turns out it aligns perfectly with the “progressive” netroots movement! Which means, of course, that Hillary Clinton and Harold Ford Jr

Saturday quotidiana

I’ll be off running errands much of the day (the Rockies, now with Josh Fogg as their number three starter, are all but dead, so it’s time to prep for Broncos season, which means buying a smoker and some of those big foam fingers), so I encourage you to take some time and visit the protein wisdom pub, where the links are plentiful, and the bowls of peanuts just might

Overheard at the neighborhood yard sale, Saturday, August 11, 11:22 AM

heavyset woman in straw hat: ” — No, you don’t need a foosball table, Henry. Nobody needs a foosball table.” thin man in John Deere hat: “Yeah, well nobody needs a wife with an ass you can show movies on, either — yet here we are…”

“Archaeologists Recreate Ancient Irish Beer”

From India PR Wire: Billy Quinn and Declan Moore, two archaeologists with Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services (Moore Group) in Galway, believe that an extensive brewing tradition existed in Ireland as far back as 2500 BC. In an article to be published in Archaeology Ireland next month, they detail their experiments and research into the enigmatic site that is the fulacht fiadh. These monuments (of which there are approx. 4500),