Let me preface by saying I’m not a bleeding-heart liberal. Like President Jimmy Carter says, “War is evil, but sometimes a necessary evil.” I live in the real world, and in the real world, at this stage of human evolution, some things have to get resolved through war. Preferably a judicious application of war based [...]
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Time for a Fish Fry! Attacks on Naturalism Don’t Hold Water
Back in March I wrote a blog entry: Absolutely Relative (the theme continues) and recently it’s gotten some discussion in the comments. Discussion regarding naturalism, humanism, and their approaches to subjectivism. On a related note, Mark over at NewSojourn has written an article condemning naturalism as absurd because it does not address the “bigger issues” [...]
READ MORE »The Pledge of Allegiance: America’s Little Hypocrisy
The Pledge of Allegiance: America’s Little Hypocrisy I absolutely love the pledge the author of the above article has come up with: “I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the Republic by which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with the promise of liberty and justice for all.”
READ MORE »The Challenge of the Fossil Record
The Challenge of the Fossil Record Holy-moly what a site! It’s refutation of the challenge against evolution by using corrupted, flawed, and even intentionally twisted fossil records and aspects of Darwinism by anti-evolutionists. I think any time I encounter someone who tries to bring up pseudoscience of fossil record challenges to disprove the factuality of [...]
READ MORE »Dems Show More Ethics Than the Reps
CNN.com – Pelosi asks Democrat to quit key committee – May 24, 2006 And when Tom Delay is indicted for even greater crimes of corporate bribery and campaign finance illegalities, not only do the Republicans put him on an ethics committe but change the law so that a person indicted can still be Majority Leader. [...]
READ MORE »Amending the Commandments
Ten Amendments Day was May 7th, but I didn’t know about it until last week. Shame. Ten Amendments Day is an answer to the politically motivated Ten Commandments Day. I learned about both on the podcast Point of Inquiry. On this particular episode of Point of Inquiry which addressed the real meaning of separation of [...]
READ MORE »Mmmm, Slug….
Old Slug Porter (Beer Advocate review) overall: 3.3 appearance: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | mouthfeel: 3.5 | drinkability: 3.5 Interesting bottle art. Cute. =) It pours with a nice, thick, nutty cream colored head. Very thick if you’re not careful, but reasonably thick with a careful pour. Almost edible. It’s a deep, [...]
READ MORE »Administration Proclaims Dictatorship
An article on a lawsuit filed to stop the government from collecting phone records. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/22/studs.wiretap.ap/index.html One interesting point is how author Studs Turkel who was blacklisted in the 50′s states that when the goveernment uses corporations to collect information on its citizens, it’s gone too far. But here’s the part that’s really interesting: The Bush [...]
READ MORE »Like Drinking Sour Smoked Orange Bacon
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen (Beer Advocate review) overall: 1.9 appearance: 4 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | mouthfeel: 3.5 | drinkability: 1.5 Wow, this was a shocker of a beer! I shouldn’t have been surprised, it says “Schlenkerla Smokebeer” right on the bottle. But I’d never had a smoke-beer before, so hey. Nice pour; [...]
READ MORE »Revisiting Narnia Was a Troublesome Trip
I finally got to see “Chronicles of Narnia” this weekend. (We don’t get out much.) I have to say that I would have loved the movie if I wasn’t quite familiar with the Bible and somewhat familiar with C.S. Lewis’ writings. With the exception of some special effects it was quite well produced. (The effects [...]
READ MORE »Hobgoblin and an Oatmeal Stout
Hobgoblin (Beer Advocate review) overall: 3.75 appearance: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 3.5 Unfortunately this is an example of “I may not know if it’s art, but I know what I like.” A nice color, a nice, creamy head, and a creamy feel without that oily feel that [...]
READ MORE »Bohemia… from Mexico?
Bohemia (Beer Advocate review) overall: 2.45 appearance: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | mouthfeel: 2.5 | drinkability: 3 Golden pour, pretty yellow actually; golden is kind of kind. (I’m not a fan of golden beers. No real reason…biased against gold, yellow beers mainly because of its resemblance to something…else.) No real “head” per [...]
READ MORE »Adam’s Boston Lager and Shiner Bock
Sam Adams Boston Lager (Beer Advocate review) overall: 3.4 appearance: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | mouthfeel: 3.5 | drinkability: 3.5 Not bad. I don’t get the caramel flavor that some people have said, but I definitely detect a heady fruity scent and taste, like peach or apricot. Definitely a grassy aroma, not [...]
READ MORE »The Virtue of Privacy
This opinion poll showing a slim majority of Americans don’t mind their phone records being tracked by the government is disgusting and depressing: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1953464 It’s not as simple as “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” The very idea of privacy and right to privacy even if it’s for something as [...]
READ MORE »Internet Neutrality – Selling of the Net to Corporate Interests
There have been a lot of chain e-mail over the years with silly Internet scares. Unfortunately, this isn’t one of those. Congress (well, the Republicans in Congress) have been working with the telcos (remember, those companies which have been selling our phone records to the government?) to craft legislation removing the neutrality of the Internet. [...]
READ MORE »The Audacity of Dictator Bush
As the administration grabs more and more power for the Executive Branch, and the religious oligarchy gets more control, we find out that they have acquired the phone records of hundreds of millions of American citizens. NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls bush recently made a staement about this program. Here are some [...]
READ MORE »Guinness Extra Stout review
Guinness Extra Stout (Original) (Beer Advocate review) overall: 3.1 appearance: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | mouthfeel: 2.5 | drinkability: 3.5 In short, Guinness Stout kind of tastes and feels like a Guinness Draught Lite. It has the strong bitter, hoppiness of the Draught, but not the heaviness or creamy feel. The head [...]
READ MORE »Theme/Appearance Chaos
Please excuse the mess as I’m working on new appearances for the blog.
READ MORE »NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls
USATODAY.com – NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls What is the Constitution, The Bill of Rights to this administration? A hinderance to their ever-growing desire for power and control. What are civil liberties and freedom and privacy to these people? Annoyances in the way of their desire to turn America into a totalitarian [...]
READ MORE »Guinness Draught, Killian’s Red, and Sam Adam’s Black Lager
Instead of rewriting these, I’m going to just copy and paste the reviews I wrote for Beer Advocate on these three beers. Enjoy (or not.) Samual Adams Black Lager (Beer Advocate review) overall: 2.1 appearance: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | mouthfeel: 2 | drinkability: 2 First and foremost, not impressed. The color [...]
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