And it's why I thank Christ I never will be one.

I personally prefer the oak's effect on the aftertaste, but I won't lie about the stainless steel method being mighty tasty as well. To me, the key to a chard is whether it has that rich, buttery taste from when the grapes are grown in a coastal fog (for California that's Sebastopol and the Russian River Valley).

I think Simmons has a point, but it's one thing when Joe Fan makes such a statement, but another when the Peter Kings (the folks paid to be experts) of the world try to be noncommittal so they're not technically wrong. That, and I hate the dude who has to be the smartest fan in the bar who is POSITIVE this is the…

I agree with your first point to an extent - Obama has proven to be far more hawkish than I think most folks in his party would have expected, but he is quick to reject some key tenets of the Bush Doctrine: preemptive war and democracy expansion coming to mind (if these protests had never occurred in the Middle East,…

@Cyrus doin' dinner Cali style tonight with a crisp Deerfield Chardonnay and a flatbread chicken pesto. Thank god I'm taking a bunch of time off next month - work is hitting hardcore braindead levels. Hopefully, in 2 weeks from now (or thereabouts) I'll have an exit strategy and can leave the world of political work…

We'll see if CarGo is the real deal or not - but that rental of Holliday never made much sense.

Damn, I agree with all of your AL predictions. I too believe that the A's could get in as they have the pitching to get through an awfully soft division.

I didn't listen to Obama's speech but read the text. Outside of maybe a couple of paragraphs on Iraq, I felt the damn thing could've been delivered by Bush and no one would've batted an eye. It's not a judgment call on Obama's Libya policy, but am I the only one who felt that way? Or does every President just make the…

@ Bevraj /golf clap

Security: "Sir, what's in that coffin?

You know what genius comments I like even better? The ones that bitch about comments not yet made without contributing something funny.

Though initially ridiculed, the Tea Party knew their warnings were finally vindicated when guys named Shaka and Rodriguez started running things in the Virginia Commonwealth.

He also had a poster of Andrew W.K., but his girlfriend made him take it down.

"Bulging Dick" is an injury problem that has plagued middle school boys' sports teams since time immemorial.

Wait, I know how this story of The Pearl ends - they end up shooting Bruce's kid by accident, right?

Rissien reeled off the places he's seen Kansas play: Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska.

Good luck man. Don't let the test break you.

Late, but go here for your LSAT needs:

The grocery store down the street from me just cut their prices. I credit Speaker Boehner for that.

Very nice. In high school my brother was recruited to play for Butler - he turned them down because he thought the program was too small (this was several years ago, before all of this success, but still).