July 2009
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The Beer Summit →
From The Daily Beast:
Usually, the beer drinking precedes the disorderly conduct charges, but the unfolding Skip Gates brouhaha is no ordinary chain of events. And so Thursday evening comes the strangest beat yet: President Obama is hosting a racial summit/ happy hour that brings to one table these three men—a policeman, a professor, and a president—and their preferred brands of beer.
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“And if medicine is for profit, and war, and the news, and the penal system, my...”
– Bill Maher, in an article entitled New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit.
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Going Back in Time to Old England, Sip by Sip →
The NY Times posits that as time continues and the English can define themselves less and less as being British, perhaps the traditional English pub offers itself as a defining cultural institution to cling to.
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“We don’t want to make the best the enemy of the good.”
– Barack Obama, adapting Voltaire to explain his position on the recent climate change bill. I think it probably a good viewpoint to take on most any issue of progress.
Very tired. Little sleep since being woken at 1:40 AM by a nefarious male and female duo trying to gain entrance through the front door. Luckily I remembered to lock the door, but that didn’t make the minutes of watching the door knob twist while the door creaked any less nerve wracking. I think it may be time to move…