Brews You Can Use

They Know Pinot! Looking for the heartland of American wine? Thinking Napa Valley? Maybe, but try a little further to the northwest: Sonoma County [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_County_wine]. That's where you find the dark Pinot. You can read about it at Forbes [http://www.

Thursday

Cutting Into Soft Cheese There's a cheese crisis in France! Well, kinda. Cheese consumption increased during last year's recession, but not the right kind of cheese. Consumption of hard cheeses increased, due largely to the rise of pizza (Domino's Pizza increased sales by 31%

Wednesday

Who Is Gerard Casey? If you like podcasts, take a serious look (listen) to Mises Institute Media [http://feeds.mises.org/MisesMedia]. They're spitting out podcasts like the Beltway spitting out dollars, except many of 'em are high quality. I came home from work early last night

Tuesday

Stream of Consciousness TDE readers encouraged me. Blame them. Besides, I have to mention: CBS sucks. If you watched the Selection Show Sunday night, you know what I mean. It's a tradition for CBS to show teams celebrating when they hear that they've made the tournament.

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Monday

Stream of Consciousness Bracketology, bracketology, bracketology. I love the NCAA Tournament, but they need to ditch that term. It's gotten so bad, I don't even like the word "bracket" anymore. And what's with NCAA women's basketball? Talk about a project

Something for Sunday Morning

"Holiness . . . is not produced by intellectual speculation about it." de Caussade, Abandonmnent

The Birthday Eudemon

It's my birthday . . . and I'm working on taxes this weekend . . . and I'm busy at the office. So I'm taking a day off from blogging. If you want something fairly interesting, try this: How Greece's Debt Crisis Affects America [http://www.

Brews You Can Use

Wikidrunk By chance, I started cruising around Wikipedia yesterday. It has some great drinking references. There is, for instance, this post [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine] about Buckfast Tonic Wine. I'd never heard of the stuff, but I guess it's (i) brewed by

Thursday

Time scarce. Just two things today: 1. Nerds with a sense of humor. The financial mavericks at Zero Hedge slay me: > Greece has just become the biggest sovereign debt panhandler, begging its own people for a bailout. The Greek situation is now so bad that as of a few