Pollster on the Democrats Position for November...

Depressing Article of the Day...

How California is destroying itself.

And incidentally, why Debbie and I first started considering leaving California a few years ago...

This is Getting Out of Hand!

We need to plant some trees....

Public Conservatism in Northern California...

This sounds dangerous, doesn't it?  Someone spouting non-progressive thoughts in a public way in Northern California?  You'd think the Pelosi Police would be all over it.  But an Iowahawk reader spotted this on a beer label:

In the murky realm of things that make you go Hmmm… 2010 may rank way, way up there. From the curious per curiam decision of 531U.S98 to WTC7, to the Superdome, to the Fall of the House of Lehman, to the Novel President’s Afghan Expedition escalation, to the oxymoronic Jobless Recovery of 2010, we have been confused. So, we did the only thing we could- we made beer-and lots of it. 6,420 cases of it to be exact. As far as we know, you drank all of it. Thank you for that, because if you had not we would have been looking for a bailout of our own, and we haven’t heard of any breweries either needing or receiving any of those Yuan-flavored TARP dollars… although we have read that the Las Vegas adult video industry did. Nobody knows why. So, in a world that is once again the proverbial ‘Ball of Confusion’, craft beer alone seems to carry its own weight. It’s nice to be on the winning team and thank you for your friendship and imbiliciousness. Call us! 707-769-4495 CHEERS!

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I don't drink beer, but if I saw this for sale locally, I'd buy some!

Geek Cookbook...

...that requires exotic (and expensive) lab equipment to follow.  The cookbook ain't cheap, either ($625 list, $422 at Amazon).  It's written by uber-geek Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft.  I'd love to have the time and money to play with this...