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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use, Saturday Edition

The surest way to ruin a pleasure is to over-indulge this pleasure. Yeah, this [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1775605.html] might qualify: > The world's first beer health centre has opened in the cellar of a family brewery in the Czech Republic. > Beer

Elle

While heating up my lunch at the office, I flipped through Elle magazine (the secretaries keep it in the break room). I tried to find the table of contents, but discovered that it's buried: it comes after 37 pages of advertisements. It's probably common to fashion

Immigration

I haven't followed the new immigration bill closely, but I'm befuddled by all the protests. Is illegal immigration illegal? If so, it should be treated as, you know, illegal. According to Fox News, right now it's treated strictly as a civil matter, which means

The Weekend Eudemon

Wow, whatta week. If you were annoyed at the drop in TDE posts, just be grateful that the posts didn't stop altogether. I've posted 390 days in a row, but the string was almost snapped this week due to intense pressures at the office and, as

Worse Than Its Bite

> The Bruintjes family says a city inspector was barking up the wrong tree when he handed them an euro80 (US$97) bill for the Dutch dog tax. > The family insists it does not have a dog - only a barking doorbell. > It was the second year in a

Brews You Can Use II

I suspect these results don't mean squat, but what the heck: Results from Great American "Premium" Beer Challenge [http://pdxbeer.blogspot.com/2006/03/results-from-great-american-premium.html] Coors Original Northwest Trail Labatt Blue Full Sail Session Old German Premium Lager Iron City Miller

Brews You Can Use

> Animal activists in Australia have set up a toad-for-beer exchange in order to promote humanitarian disposal of toads [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002876.php]. Now that's a stupid tree-hugger-like program I could get into.

Herbal Me

> A new study suggests adolescents who used herbal supplements are six times more likely to have tried cocaine and almost 15 times more likely to have used anabolic steroids than teens who have never used herbal products. The findings are in a University of Rochester Medical Center study published

Can We Build a Wall Around the Mideast and Segregate?

A very good article [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,407493,00.html], though I'm not sure what to think about the implication that the West needs to involve itself and spend more resources to help Muslim women and Christians. From intro: > A few

Virtual Lent

The heck if I know what to make of this: > Brighton, UK. Britain will witness its first crucifixion for almost two millennia later this week, when Cynewulf is nailed to a cross as punishment for ganking other players as they first appear. Cynewulf, (in real life a 27 year-