An Experiment in Scotch

Ok I made up the title but it sounds nice. Actu­ally, while Phelps cer­tainly needs a pub­lic ass-kicking fol­lowed by an even more pub­lic butt-fucking, those things are unlikely to hap­pen any time soon. How­ever, the Patriot Guard Rid­ers are a group of bik­ers who ride around the coun­try and shield familes at solid­ers’ funer­als …

Wow, Jeff over at Alphecca updated his blogroll and sent a ton of traf­fic my way. Wel­come to all the read­ers from there and I hope you poke around over here and find some things you like.

In my ongo­ing search for mean­ing and ful­fill­ment in my life, I”ve added a site meter to my blog in a vain attempt to gain self-worth through my ador­ing fans. I”m run­ning a con­test to give $10,000 to the first vis­i­tor I see on the site meter. Oops. When I checked to make sure the site …

I feel like this a lot, in desparate need of a drink but lack­ing thumbs.

Appar­ently researchers have iden­ti­fied some­thing I have implic­itly known for a long time. Specif­i­cally, that a caf­feine nap is a great way to get past being sleepy, at least tem­porar­ily. Basi­cally, you drink a cup of cof­fee and then take a “nap chaser” for 15 min­utes. Pretty good news for dri­vers as well as us …

So we’re watch­ing the open­ing cer­e­monies of the Olympics and Brian Williams is killing me. If sports tran­scends pol­i­tics (North and South Korea march­ing together), why did he have to bring up the car­toon con­tro­versy when Den­mark marched in? Moron…

So you're a rea­son­ably suc­cess­ful local den­tist in Dal­las with a prac­tice in Lake­wood and a nice home in the same area and you think to your­self “I think I'll head down to Mex­ico and have some mar­gar­i­tas and some danc­ing and maybe I'll have a lit­tle sex with boys. I know there's this whole …

When peo­ple start to blame the gov­ern­ment for con­sumer debt, you know you're in trou­ble. What ever hap­pened to per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity in this coun­try? This is polit­i­cal, not just finan­cial. Peo­ple are in debt because the laws allow com­pa­nies to under­pay their work­ers and keep their prof­its. Too much of this is based on blam­ing …

An excel­lent arti­cle in the Econ­o­mist about the myth of the job­less recov­ery. Via Instapundit