Herbs and spices are more interesting. Coriander, bog myrtle, hemp are ones I've tried. I know a couple of brewers have experimented with cannabis for personal use but I've never had the opportunity, nor would I have the inclination to be honest. A lot of beers will have spices in and can work well. But generally chilli beers are bad beer with chilli in.

keep to the Fen Causeway

I thought it was appalling but, then, I'm not the target market.  O threw some meat to the Progressive Wing early and then headed straight for the Center-Right (Middle Class Tax Cuts?  Good God.)

One good thing: Obama might actually get the US the hell out of Iraq.

Och nu den svenska kocken bakar en Alaskan älg jägare. Bork! Bork! Bork!

Against Joe Biden.

So much for the whole experience thing McCain was pushing.

Those internals must look really bad.  Obama's going to be pushing a very solid double-digit lead (and over that key 50% mark) if the trends continue.

McCain panicked, and decided he needed a big play.  In American football terms, this is a Hail Mary.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

If he wants to bring change to Washington the first bill they should pass would be campaign reform.  I have a dream!  Were enough Senators and Representatives to agree to move on this, they could milk enough contributions from exesting lobbyists while the bill is under discussion to carry them through the next election.

All they would have to do is live up to Jessie Unhru's  qualification standard: "If you can't take their money, go to their parties, eat their food, drink their liquor, f#$k their women and get up the next morning and vote against them, you don't belong here." (loosely quoted.)

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

I thought it was quite effective in attacking Republicans, attacking McCain as out of touch and focusing on economic issues, noting that Democrats simply have a better record. There was even some red meat in there. Audience booing when he talked about McCain and the Bush administration. I think he hit exactly the right note.

The few lines on foreign policy were rather less good, and of course there were these repeated lines about America being an exceptional country, beacon for the world, and so on. Americans love that stuff, we don't.

Hear she's big on the rights of the unborn front. Might get in a few of the evangelicals. Stupid choice, otherwise.

From my email box:

• she's a Buchananist (supported him in earlier campaigns);
  
• she's a global warming denier and ugly on environment (and supportive of big oil);
  
• she's a traditional conservative

Willow and Piper?

McCain/Palin ... total sacks of SHIT!

If she's really that much into witchery, that would definitely improve my opinion. Don't know about the evangelicals, though.

And the name of a tree, too.


A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

Piper is a possible, but when her other kids are called Trig, Track and Bristol, it's just as likely she named her after an oil rig or a holiday cottage.

So how's life in Hawaii, other than the drug/booze situation?

McCain/Palin ... total sacks of SHIT!

so sorry you had to go through that.

my friends still living there in hawaii tell me about the meth epedemic, it sounds absolutely heartbreaking- :(

i hope you have a chance to go down to hanalei or secrets beach and chill, after the cleanup.

so nice to see you pop in.

Peace is not the absence of war -- peace is the absence of fear. Ursula Franklin

My only substance abuse problem is alcohol and the abuse only occurs if you offer me american budweiser.

keep to the Fen Causeway

What is the tv series, that started here on ET about. I seem to have missed something. :-)