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Feelies!

The Feelies are touring. And I got tickets to see them! Joy of joys!

It's not until September, though. Dismay of dismays ¡

Home Town News

First up, my home town:

Man thrown out of bar for having sex retaliates by biting barman's finger off.

Next, my wife's home town:

A guest at an Ohio wedding wound up in jail charged with assault and intoxicated disorderly conduct. It all began when she refused to stop slow dancing with the groom, which escalated into a brawl with the bride and an attack on an off-duty police officer.

Sweet.

Inspecting One's Own Chicken

Federal food safety inspectors said a proposal by the Agriculture Department to expand a pilot program that allows private companies to take over the inspections at poultry plants could pose a health risk by allowing contaminated meat to reach customers.

Currently, the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors are stationed along the assembly lines in poultry plants and examine the birds for blemishes, feces or visible defects before they are processed.

Under the planned expansion, the agency would hand over these duties to poultry plant employees, while the inspectors would spend more time evaluating the plant’s bacteria-testing and other safety programs. The department has run the pilot program in 20 poultry plants since 1998.

Do kids still have to read "The Jungle" in school these days?

The Martini

A martini is gin and vermouth. That's it. No exceptions. And here is how you make one.

Putting a cosmopolitan in a conical glass does not make it into a "comsotini". It's still a cosmopolitan.

Putting a girl in a glass is probably impossible ... unless she's ... teeny.

Some people like vodka and vermouth in a conical glass. That's fine, too. But it's not a martini. OK, but what is it? Well, turns out that it is a Kangaroo! Vodka in a conical glass with no vermouth is ... a glass of vodka.

What would be in a drink called The Pedant ?