The first bpb product is now available in the Backporch Beer Store through 99Dogs. This is the first of thre planned products.
Which leads me to my query: I am working on an idea with the bpb graphic artist to create a shirt depicting a donkey and an elephant holding picket signs. I want the slogans on the signs to show the most crass pointless slogan that the DNC and GOP would use. (The ultimate theme of the shirt is “Registered Independent” — and proud of it.)
What slogan(s) would you suggest?
In honor of the first post from our resident Entertaiment Lawyer, here’s a review of Heinekin Beer Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Being the lemming of culture that I am I plunked down six bucks for a twelve pack of PBR silver cans….So I got home and went about my business and cracked open a cold one. It was interesting. Enlightening one could say.
Follow me on this one, it’s kind of a journalism school thesis…
I think the GWB action figure is awesome.
Prompted by the hype that the GWB action figure has gotten over the past couple of days, I seem to have seen more talk of Bush’s spotty military service record than I have in months.
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Psycho-dermatology, female gorillas, and why women love to pick their boyfriends’ zits.
I’m posting this fascinating article from Salon without comment…
Page 2 is on fire today. Hunter S Thompson is back with his first Football column of the year, plus there’s the always great TMQ
Today’s highlight , though, is the list of the 10 biggest sports busts, including grass in the Astrodome. Good stuff.
Nothing beat baseball hype in Houston during the ’60’s and ’70’s. I’ve got an uncle who was in town back then, and he said that nickle beer night was always close to a riot. The best Astrodome story he’s shared involves a Mothers’ Day special where the ‘Stros suspended a couple grand in small bills from the center of the ‘Dome. During the 7^th^ inning stretch, they had all the moms in the crowd come onto the field gather under the bag ‘o’ cash, the theory being that they’d open the bag, and the ladies could gather a little gift.
Well, no one bothered to think that bills falling from 18 stories above the playing field would take an extremely long time to make it to the field. They did. Fifteen minutes by my Uncle’s recollection. He said that it was a drunken catfight on the field by the time the bills made it to a grabbable level.
And to think that we thought the bat races were cool…
Not that anyone noticed, but there was a Democrat Presidential Candidate debate last night.
Dude goes over to Iraq to support a repressive dictator. Dude gets fined for violating US and UN sanctions upon his return. Dude whines to press.
Wah.
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” – Patrick Henry
“I have no intention whatsoever of paying any money for having gone over there and worked with children. It’s a bizarre and arbitrary charge.” Ryan Clancy
Whatever happened to the idea that ideas worth supporting are worth paying, fighting, and dying for?
Granted, Paul Krugman’s usually smoking crack, IMO. But today he’s finally got a couple of decent points about troubles with privatizing parts of the military.
I’ve got mixed feelings about this. One of the reasons that the US Armed Forces are head and shoulders above the rest of the world is that we let our defense industry continue to innovate by running much of the R&D as a private enterprise, and allow advances to trickle down to the public at a pretty rapid rate. We also don’t have strict control on profits of defense contractors, which provides an incentive for them to make better products. And, as one of the few industries still maintaining strict controls on US Ownership and content, these profits are poured back into the US economy.
However, I am disturbed by the trend to allow contractors to play a part in combat operations, or combat support operations. It is possible to put a dollar value on human life, and folks watching corporate bottom lines are likely to do so. This is the last thing I’d like troops worrying about while they are extended in defense of freedom, whether it be for Americans, Iraqis, or anyone’s.
I’m not a huge fan of the local Austin Grill chain of Tex-Mex places. By Austin standards, their food is mediocre at best. They do a pretty good job of playing Austin music, though, and they serve Shiner Bock. Both points in their favor. And now, another good reason to give them my business.
Read more!WSJ is carrying a piece by Brendan Minter saying that the government may have information that Zacarias Moussaoui was not the 20th hijacker on 9/11, but may have been part of a cell that was due to hijack a fifth plane.
I haven’t seen this anywhere else, and am interested to get confirmation. But it’s a shock to me to have the specter of the attacks on NYC and Washington dragged up again. Four terrorists of the caliber of the 19 who carried out the 9/11 attacks are potentially still at large (Moussaoui and the Shoe Bomber are in custody, thankfully). I will also accept criticism that, while not at the level of OJ’s search for the ‘real killers’, we could be doing more to catch the rest of these bastards.
