Grozet Gooseberry & Wheat Ale From: Heather Ale Ltd. / The Brewery Craigmill in United Kingdom (Scotland) Style: Scottish Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale overall: 3.8 appearance: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 4 A- Deep amber. Clear. Medium to shallow head, but somewhat rich. Keeps a decent lacing. [...]
READ MORE »I’d never put too much thought into Cindy Sheehan, except today as I read that she’s giving up the peace movement. The blood-lusting War Machine that runs this country and runs politics has been too great an entity to fight–and with the Democrats caving to bush’s wants, it only proves both parties are corrupt. Morally, [...]
READ MORE »A recent post by John W. Loftus on Debunking Christianity: The Morality of Atheism and Lying. deals with how there is no need for a Christian God to provide some kind of absolute morality–it exists (if “absolute”) without him. Evidenced by the fact that many great civilizations existed before and apart from Christian influence, moral [...]
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Schlafly Irish-Style Extra Stout From: Saint Louis Brewery / Schlafly Tap Room in Missouri, United States Style: Irish Dry Stout overall: 3.25 appearance: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 3.5 A- Dark, deep black with a slight red hue. Pleasant brown-tan head, sticks around a little while, but then [...]
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Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale From: Heather Ale Ltd. / The Brewery Craigmill in United Kingdom (Scotland) Style: Scottish Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale overall: 4.2 appearance: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 4 A- Deep, opaque brown/black. Beautiful, rich, thick, DEEP dark tan head that lasts forever. Even with [...]
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Fraoch Heather Ale From: Heather Ale Ltd. / The Brewery Craigmill in United Kingdom (Scotland) Style: Scottish Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale overall: 3.1 appearance: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 3 A- Pours a bright, clear golden. Thin, white-tan head that disappears in seconds and leave virtually nothing [...]
READ MORE »John W. Loftus at Debunking Christianity has a post today: What Would Convince Me Christianity is True? It’s an excellent post (as are most of what he writes, and I have to say, I absolutely agree with his analysis. Go visit the site, read his other stuff, comment. But I liked this post so much [...]
READ MORE »Indeed it may be true! As you may or may not know, I claim no political party affiliation (just as I claim no religious affiliation,) although if threatened with my life I might claim the Libertarian Party (you don’t have to threaten me for me to admit to being a Secular Humanist, though.) I vote [...]
READ MORE »I received an email from a friend today, which was a news alert from one of the radical libertarian newsgroups he belongs to, which went something like this: (The entire e-mail at the bottom of this blog post…) LAW OF THE LAND Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers Order for emergencies apparently gives authority without congressional [...]
READ MORE »Well, both funny and disgustingly sad: ‘Carter is irrelevant,’ Bush administration shoots back Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.” The Georgia Democrat said Bush had overseen an “overt [...]
READ MORE »So two days ago the former Deputy Attorney General, who worked under former Atty. General John Ashcroft, gave testimony to a Senate panel regarding grossly corrupt behavior and tactics from out of the White House regarding illegal activity: GONZALES: Pressured DOJ to OK Domestic Spying This is incredible testimony! Watch it, please; it’s better than [...]
READ MORE »Saw this article on BoingBoing about artificially intelligent chat programs talking to each other: Discover Magazine: I Chat, Therefore I Am… It’s kind of funny, and certainly interesting to see what directions two non-human, A.I.’s take their conversations. I like this bit: J: Do you believe in God? A: Of course I believe in God. [...]
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Hemant Mehta has a site: The Friendly Atheist, and has written a book, I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist’s Eyes . There’s an interview with him on the latest Point of Inquiry podcast, and indeed, he is very friendly and outgoing and positive. He talks about his various visits to [...]
READ MORE »Update: The Alabama Homeland Security Web page linked below has gone missing since I posted about it. Weird. I recall seeing that site about a year ago, back when I was doing research on anarchism. Now, coincidently, immediately after Classically Liberal blogs about it, it’s pulled down. One might immediately suspect something fishy, and that’s [...]
READ MORE »Isn’t capitalism great? You’re a corporation with money, you buy political power. That’s lobbying in a nutshell. Here’s a sample of what money and politics begats: Congresscritters take money from RIAA/MPAA, then threaten universities on their behalf Seems the corporations found out they didn’t have enough capital, er, respect and clout to make universities bend [...]
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I just made posts today and yesterday regarding Disturbing art on trial: presumed guilty and Police action, thug action. To add to this very disturbing post 9/11-post VT over-reactionary trend, a story about a cartoonist fired from his job for talking about his hobby of target shooting, and then visited by police detectives for making [...]
READ MORE »I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I DO have a lot of respect for the police profession. Police officers do a job most of us, certainly I, don’t want, couldn’t do. Responding to crime scenes, witnessing the results of man’s inhumanity to man, man’s stupidity, and just horrible accidents. Most police take their [...]
READ MORE »Just a quickie: The latest Skepticality episode has a great conversation with Australian author Lynne Kelly regarding the wonders that can be found in reality. (In her case, mainly involving the little-known qualities and beauty and abilities of crocodiles and spiders.) You don’t need to look to pseudoscience for wonder and amazement when there’s so [...]
READ MORE »Another story I just discovered regarding a student and his harmless hobby: Student Arrested for “Suspected Terrorist Activity†A teen arrested, arrested, for having created a map for a first-person shooter game (think Doom, Quake, Soldier of Fortune, Thief….) based on his high school. As the article above points out, it’s not at all unusual [...]
READ MORE »Read first: Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD broken – processing keys extracted to understand: Digg users revolt over AACS key This whole copyright and DRM all reminds me of the 1995 Bruce Sterling novel, Heavy Weather. While not the best written novel, he describes a near-future America of revolutionary copyright anarchy (in both senses of the word–chaos [...]
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