Salad Is Slaughter

Normally, I don’t discount a political candidate because of their stance on a single issue.  However, I agree with James Trumm at Framed for this single case.  When it comes to a political litmus test, I support this one.

Thanks to Pharyngula for the link.

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I guess you could call it a sports ghetto. Prior to getting XM satellite radio, I used to listen to various sports talk stations during my morning and evening commute. Afternoon drive time was usually KNBR with The Razor (real flake who ends his show with “angels fly because they take themselves lightly) and Mr. T (or Tom Tolbert, former NBA player and amusing to listen to). It was either this or listen to classic rock I’ve heard a thousand times before.

During the commute hours I’d listen to their discussions on baseball, football, rarely hockey, and sports like basketball which I thoroughly despise. I was eating lunch today and the television was on in the restaurant. I realized that not only was the Super Bowl just four days away, I had no clue who was playing.

Since getting XM, my commute time consists of listening to hockey programs out of Canada, hockey games, one of the comedy channels, or classic radio shows. While I was listening to Dragnet (I never did hear the end of Tuesday’s episode. I think the neighbor lady murdered the old man but now I’ll never know), Hop-a-long Cassidy, the Green Hornet, Have Gun Will Travel (does Paladin give away his fee to someone in every show?), the Shadow, and Burns and Allen (Gracie Allen was a comic genius), I missed a week’s worth of Super Bowl hype. And you know, I didn’t miss it a bit.

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I get weird searches ending up here sometimes:

how high do satalites orbit   You spell just like my brother, but it got you here.  Answer:  What ever the mission dictates; sixty nautical miles, 12000, 24000, it just depends.

jeri slaughter   I commented on the hotitude of Jeri Ryan and google associated that with the blog name I guess.

How do you salad   Huh?

recipe Chinese soda “roast sucking pig”  Damned if I know.

poodle hair matted   It sure does get that way.  Cut it off.

how fedex works  Not very well, if my experience is any indication.

creationism is bullshit   Damned right it is.  I get this search a lot.

taco pooping ice cream south park episode   I liked that one too.

glen sather happy gilmore   I have no idea what that search is about.

don koharski hates the philadelphia flyers   All right-thinking people do.

dog ate bag of fritos throwing up drinking a lot of water   Call a vet; don’t ask some random joker on the internet.

is there a difference in merlots    Yes

PUV XWY   It’s a political statement found on a personalized license plate.

csi plot exhibitionist sex    Excuse me?

true greenchem lawn    Liked the service, hated the accounting department so we cancelled.

pugs movies   I don’t know of any off the top of my head.

Groenendael rescue   I’d like to do that, too.

+”on after south park” + aliens   What in the hell are you looking for?

Retzlaff wine   Like it.

Dogs leaking pee.   See your vet.  It might be diabetes.

“dental supply” hippo   Some things just leave me speechless.

joel robuchon mansion   Let’s leave on that happy thought.

Just because a wine is more expensive doesn’t mean you’re going to like it better.  Case in point:  on Sunday we were grilling some really nice steaks and I pulled a 1998 Far Niente cab from the vault.  After it opened up, I found it to be a nice, subtle wine, but it wasn’t spectacular; at least not for the price I paid for the bottle.  Then again, maybe I just picked the wrong meal for this wine.

Monday we popped open a bottle of Rubicon Estate’s (formerly Neibaum-Coppola) Edizione Pennino Zinfandel.  I think it was a 2004 vintage.  We both liked this wine much better than the three times more expensive cab we had the night before, and in a blind taste test would probably have picked the Rubicon as the more expensive wine.

Sometimes it just works out that you like the less expensive item better.

Note to my father:  neither of these wines can be purchased “by the box” so don’t ask.

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The new television season is starting to piss me off.  Well, not the new season as much as the networks.  Didn’t I see new episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, several of the CSIs, etc. last week?  Then why is it that last night’s CBS lineup was filled with reruns from last fall?  And it’s not just CBS.  NBC and Fox do the same damned thing; have a new episode, then go to a rerun the following week.  I’m sure ABC is guilty too, but there aren’t any ABC shows that I watch.

Then there’s the annoying practice of running a new episode on a different day and time slot.  CBS is showing a new episode of Criminal Minds on Sunday at 7:00 Pacific.  I’m going to have to buy a Tivo-type device just to find the shows I want.

How this is for a radical idea:  when you begin a new season, broadcast new episodes?  And keep it in the same day/time slot.

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