Monthly Archives: February 2010

How to Order a Beer in Fifty Languages

February 28, 2010
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From etiquettesystems.com “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” –Dave Barry If there’s one universal constant in human society, it has to be alcohol. Rare indeed is the culture that hasn’t worked out the tricksy process of fermenting and/or distilling some type of vegetable matter — be it malted barley, potatoes, honey or grape juice — into a brew containing a significant percentage, as the dictionary puts it, of an “organic compound in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group.” In other words, booze. Among the mildest and most variable of these alcoholic beverages is that fine elixir known as beer. A true beer connoisseur would never pass up an opportunity to try the local brew, no matter where on Earth where they found themselves, and so it behooves the serious beerologist to know how to order a beer in as many languages as possible. That’s why we’ve taken it upon ourselves to provide you with a handy guide on how to…

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Beer Halls Around the World

February 28, 2010
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Beer Halls Around the World

Beer hall at Cannstatter-volksfest: festival on the Neckar in the part of Stuttgart known as Bad Cannstatt.

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Notable Quotables Caught at Random

February 28, 2010
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“Conservatives could learn a lot from Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin. We should take a page out of her playbook and take a 9-iron and smash the window out of big government.” – MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Classy) at the CPAC conference. “When I watch porn, if it’s not hot enough, I’ll make up back stories in my mind. My biggest dream is to write pornography.” – John Mayer “I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it.” – Rush Limbaugh, hiding his gayness, after judging the 2010 Miss America pageant. “You have become in some ways the voice of sanity on Fox, which is like being the thinnest kid at fat camp.” – Jon Stewart to Bill O’Reilly on his Fox News show. “That is the last time I have sex with 200 middle-aged journalists. Europeans with wispy beards. The men were worse.” – Ricky Gervais, hosting the 2010 Golden Globes Awards, kidding because his new movie received no nominations this year. “An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.” – Dan Rather “It ain’t what you know that hurts you, it’s what you know that…

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Glenn Beck’s New Book

February 28, 2010
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Glenn Beck’s New Book

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Ye Olde Scribe Presents More Spam

February 28, 2010
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Ye Olde Scribe Presents More Spam

wiki “Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it… damn stuff.” Spam from the great white North: no relation to Ollie… December 8 – 6:00 PM It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

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Ex-New Orleans Cop Pleads Guilty: Post-Katrina Shootings

February 28, 2010
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Ex-New Orleans Cop Pleads Guilty: Post-Katrina Shootings

The Danziger Bridge (Fmr. New Orleans Police Lt. Michael Lohman inset) Courtesy wwltv.com Justin Elliott for TPM A veteran New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty yesterday to orchestrating an elaborate cover-up of a shooting in the days after Katrina in which police gunned down six unarmed city residents, killing two and seriously wounding four.

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Natural Gas with Un-natural Consequences

February 27, 2010
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A forum presented at Tompkins Cortland Community College 2/23/2010 on the inherent dangers of horizontal, slick water, hydro-fracking in CNY and the southern tier. Thank you to SHALESHOCK for providing this service. The presenters were Ron Bishop, lecturer in Chemistry at SUNY Oneonta; Thomas Shelly, chemical safety and hazardous materials specialist; Adam Law, a physician who specializes in endocrinology. Dr. William Klepack, a family practice physician in Dryden, will be introducing the speakers. http://www.shaleshock.org/shaleshock-video/natural-gas-with-un-natural-consequences-the-health-risks-of-shale-gas-drilling/

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Republican-Style HC Reform

February 27, 2010
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Republican-Style HC Reform

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Brew Biz: Werts and All

February 26, 2010
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Brew Biz: Werts and All

By Ken Carman Ken Carman is a BJCP judge; homebrewer since 1979, club member at Escambia Bay and Music City Homebrewers, who has been interviewing professional brewers all over the east coast for over 10 years. The Topic: Homebrew-based Special Events One of the advantages of this odd life I carved out for myself over 20 years ago is that as an entertainer and an educational service provider I tour Mississippi to New England. That has allowed me to sit in Federal Jacks: Kennebunkport, while sipping beer styles first brewed and designed by Alan Pugsley: bottled by Shipyard, as I watch high priced sailboats float with the breeze in and out of the inner bay. I’ve also done a review on a brewpub in the French Quarter and become a member of Escambia Bay Brewers in Pensacola, made friends with some of the best brewers in that area, and sat with Greg Noonan at 7 Barrels while he bought me beer and asked my opinions. I have never felt worthy but, hey, what the hell. What was I going to say, “Hell, no?” But sometimes ignorance is indeed as grand as the grandest Cru, or Barleywine, if you prefer. Sometimes…

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An American Cry for Help

February 25, 2010
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An American Cry for Help

Photo: gamera_obscura; Edited: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t By Keith Olbermann Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow’s summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, I apologize in advance. Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him. We were just shy of six months since he was hospitalized and it was the end of a long day at the end of a longer week. Not to get too clinical or too grotesque on you, but he’d had his colon removed at the end of September and that went so well that it was no more complicated than an appendectomy. But what followed was a series of infections, like storms in the monsoon season, one arriving, blossoming, inundating him, my Dad shaking it off and cheerfully bouncing back, and then within days another one coming in to flatten him once again. Read the rest and see the video HERE.

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