Monthly Archives: June 2009

A Good Day’s Harvest

14 ears of corn, 3–4 toma­toes, 2 cucum­bers, a hand­ful of ser­ra­nos and jalapenos, 6 ounces of yel­low toma­toes and a ran­dom egg­plant. Also: Scooter has been hell on the wildlife this spring, more than any other year so when I found this lit­tle guy hid­den in our Cop­per Canyon daisy, I knew he was …

June 30, 2009 – 8:50 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening, Random | Comments (2)

Smoot-Hawley Couldn’t Have Been That Bad, Right?

Tyler at Mar­ginal Rev­o­lu­tion chan­nels Matt Ygle­sias one of the more odi­ous por­tions of the Waxman-Markey bill recently passed in the House, specif­i­cally the threat of tar­iffs on coun­tries who don’t play along with our unse­ri­ous cli­mate change game. Even Obama says trade pro­tec­tions are a bad idea in this lit­tle game. For those not scor­ing …

June 30, 2009 – 8:00 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Sentences Worth Pondering

“The plot behind the endlessly-long series of explo­sions that Megan Fox’s rack is forced to endure is impos­si­ble to relate or under­stand.” From Choire Sicha at The Awl, writ­ing a review dig­i­tal flog­ging of the new Trans­form­ers movie. Good times. I can’t pos­si­bly do jus­tice to the whole review so you should just go read …

June 29, 2009 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Destroying America

Rarely does Con­gress get to do some­thing so sweep­ing as what they are doing today. It’s usu­ally destruc­tion through evo­lu­tion as small lit­tle things get intro­duced over time. But not today. Today, they are vot­ing on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill, bet­ter known as The Amer­i­can Clean Energy and Secu­rity Act. This bill will …

June 26, 2009 – 9:28 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (3)

The King Of Pop, Popped

Michael Jack­son is dead. Which is strange because if there was ever a strange, girl-like pop star that I thought would live for­ever it would be him. He was a musi­cal genius for 15–20 years and then an eccen­tric pedophile for another 15 or so. Quite a career. From the CNN arti­cle, Rev­erend Al Sharp­ton: …

June 25, 2009 – 6:46 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (1)

One More Hobby

That’s all I need. Regard­less, I’ve signed up for an online fic­tion writ­ing class that started today. I’ve been toy­ing with the idea for quite awhile and finally took the plunge. I’m not exactly sure what I plan to get out of it other than an impe­tus for reg­u­larly writ­ing “some­thing”. I’ve dis­cov­ered that my …

June 23, 2009 – 8:52 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Hope And Change In High Tech Land

I won­der how all those high tech work­ers feel after hav­ing sup­ported Obama so strongly dur­ing the elec­tion only to find out that he wants to do things like reg­u­late ven­ture cap­i­tal firms with over $30 mil­lion in man­aged money. This cov­ers most of the VC firms out there and means that they would have …

June 18, 2009 – 7:20 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Politics | Tagged | Comments (2)

The Wonder Of The Internet

I don’t know whether this is sub­lime, grotesque or out­ra­geous but I do know it’s hilar­i­ous. It also involves Helen Hunt on a nasty acid trip, Hall and Oates singing with a cat and sweet, sweet end­ing. Don’t worry though, Key­board Cat doesn’t involve hand­i­cap peo­ple falling down an esca­la­tor this time.

June 16, 2009 – 9:03 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor | Tagged | Comments (0)

Summer Garden Update

It’s get­ting damn hot lately so it’s a lot eas­ier to write about the gar­den than actu­ally, you know, gar­den. So while it’s not tech­ni­cally sum­mer yet, here’s a lit­tle taste of what’s been going in The Experiment’s home gar­den. For the first time, I’m track­ing yields as a way to objec­tively com­pare changes and …

June 14, 2009 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening | Comments (0)

Unintended Consequences of Roe v. Wade

Conor at The Amer­i­can Scene has a post up try­ing to clar­ify this Ross Douthat edi­to­r­ial. They are both inter­est­ing reads. I find that any dis­cus­sion of abor­tion, much like that of text edi­tors (VIM Roolz!) and of reli­gion, is dom­i­nated in large part by two very vir­u­lent, angry con­stituen­cies who typ­i­cally try to yell …

June 11, 2009 – 6:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (3)