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Butchwoman

This was announced last week, but I missed it until today: > Fifty years after she first graced the pages of a comic book, Batwoman is to return to the world of superheroes - as a lesbian socialite [http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=5866]. And [http://enjoyment.independent.co.

The Weekend Eudemon

Well, I'm back. I spent the last two days at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort [http://www.soaringeaglecasino.com/] in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. I attended a two-day seminar on business law, gambled, drank beer, and watched the Pistons lose. Soaring Eagle is one of those Indian reservation casinos.

PSA

Blogging will be light the rest of today and tomorrow. Actually, until tomorrow evening, it will be non-existent. My wife and I are going to a resort. I have a two-day business seminar, and she's tagging along. She claims it's her first over-night trip without children

Brews You Can Use V

The worst beers in the world [http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/TheWorstBeers.asp] , rated 1 to 50. I drink two of them, but I'm happy to see Bud Lite made it (48).

Brews You Can Use III

Also via A Good Beer Blog: Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their Bottled Brands [http://www.essential-reference.com/]. AGBB gives it a good review [http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/may/bookreviewthe1]. Excerpt: > For the beer geek like me, the DBBB can be used in one or two

Brews You Can Use

White wine in King Tut's tomb [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-05-29-tut-white-wine_x.htm?csp=15] . Egyptians thought wine was necessary for the after-life, so they provided it on this side. Up until this discovery, though, all such wine remnants were red.

More 666 Anticipation

> All across Norway precautions are being mounted to prevent churches being torched on June 6, 2006 [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1336139.ece]. My hunch: The "Satanic" day will pass without incident. A few subpars will get married on that day and spawn a few Damiens,

The Woods

Thomas Woods has a new website [http://www.thomasewoods.com/]. Woods is the author who, in a moment of weakness (smile), endorsed this blog awhile back.

The Not-So Good Shepherd

> A Croatian shepherd is hoping for a place in the Guinness Book of Records after he lost 230 animals in a freak storm. Milan Prpic has written to Guinness asking if he can be included for having the most sheep killed by a single lightning strike [http://www.ananova.

Throw Back to 1800s

Two women are accused of taking out life insurance policies on homeless men, then killing them. LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-olgahelen31may31,0,5138323.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-california] Link. This was an old scam, reaching back to at least the nineteenth century, if not earlier.