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Molecule of the Day

I ask you, how can you not love a web site called Molecule Of The Day? I think it’s worth checking out every day just in the hope that some understanding of chemistry might rub off on me…somehow.

Jews In Space

I’m so relieved to have found this video on YouTube. I’ve had this silly song running through my head for over a week after having watched Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part 1 twice in one afternoon.

We’re Jews out in space! We’re zooming along, protecting the Hebrew race…

Well… You just have to see it for yourself.

“The Raven” Special Lager

This evening’s beer offering is “The Raven” Special Lager. It’s not a contender in the Washington Post’s “Beer Madness” competition (described here), but I saw it at the beer store and liked the label so I figured… what the hell. I’ll give it a try.

“The Raven” has a really pleasant, almost honey-like taste when it first hits your tongue. The scent is almost perfumed — but not overly sweet. I’m reminded of one of the Indian beers I’ve had… but I can’t remember which one. Hm… as the initial sweetness fades, though, a somewhat sour and almost metalic taste is taking over in my mouth. Not so good.

Let me drink a little more…

Okay. I definitely like the scent of this beer and the initial flavor when it first hits my mouth, but it does indeed have a somewhat bitter aftertaste. Bummer.

More Fun With Slide

It turns out you can put these silly little themes on your YouTube videos with Slide, too. So… isn’t that special. This is a video I made a couple months ago. I’m going to make a new one featuring me and my home-brewed beer “real soon now”. So… you’ll certainly be wanting to check in regularly in anticipation of that, eh?

Christian Sex

Christian Sex: How Married Christian Couples Have Exciting Sex
For the first time in almost thirteen years, my wife had an orgasm during intercourse. She was so overcome with pleasure and joy that she, literally, cried! She told me that she had never imagined that pleasure could be so… overwhelming.

This journey led me, finally, to sexual pleasure and fulfillment greater than I imagined possible…and I am sharing what I learned so…

You also can have sex that is intense, regular and spiritual…including orgasms that are so overwhelming that you will both be amazed that
such pleasure exists in this world.

If this is what you desire, Sexual Skills For The Christian Husband is the solution. I wrote this book after overcoming my own frustrations with my sexual skills and performance.

Yep. Sexual Skills for the Christian Husband. If you’re a Jew — or [gasp!] a Muslim — or some other kind of hell-bound blasphemer, you’re out of luck! This is sex for Christians.

This is really a fascinating web site. The guy talks about how his “bookshelves were lined with books, manuals and medical journals [which] became practically unreadable they were so covered with underlines and highlights” during the time when he was trying to figure out how to make sex with his wife better. You have wonder: Did he never just ask his wife what she wanted?? I mean.. he goes on about how his wife never had orgasms. Did he ever just ASK her what turns her on?? Jeez!

One of the best parts about this whole thing is that “Sexual Skills for the Christian Husband” is — the author tells us — both Scripturally and “technically” sound. Scripturally sound? What does that mean? Hm. The author just isn’t very specific on his web site.

Happily, none of us need to remain confused! The folks at Sex In Christ: Sexuality According to the Word of God have the answers! [Okay, okay... I should warn you that this second web site is satire and is fairly raunchy at times but also amusing.]

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Thanks to Matt for telling me about these two web sites!

Bears 2005

I just learned about this new thing called Slide for adding slide shows to a web site. I’m not crazy about the advertising that comes along with it so I probably won’t use it very often — but it IS free and it IS easy to use so it’s a great tool for people who aren’t very comfortable with HTML.

Anyway, I made a slide show using a few of the pictures from our trip to Ely a couple years ago. The magnificent Lynn Rogers is still running these black bear research field courses, by the way, so if you want to sign up — just go to the Wildlife Research Institute web site.

On with the show…

Crazy

As I’ve been reading through some of the crazy nonsense on the two web sites I told you about earlier today (specifically, Michele Bachmann and LifeSite), it occurs to me that the public schools really must be failing when we’ve allowed so many people to reach adulthood still believing in nonsense like “intelligent design”.

How does this happen??

When I was a kid growing up in Minnesota, my friends would have laughed in my face if I’d tried to tell them there was no such thing as evolution. And that was 40 years ago! Anyone who didn’t recognize that evolution was how we got to being human beings was recognized as a kook by pretty much everyone. And now these kooks are being elected to office?! Again, how the fuck does something like this happen??

Maybe we have been too liberal. Maybe, by being nice and letting everyone (no matter how crazy) have their say without interruption… maybe we’ve invited this educational and cultural degradation. We’ve allowed the lunatics to take over the asylum.

Nazi Queers

LifeSite Special Report – Homofascists March On
When Nazis are talked about today, there is usually no mention of certain of their prominent aspects. Of course, those aspects which don’t fit into the politically correct view of history are those which get no mention. (…) You are even less likely to hear of the prominent role that homosexuality and a hyper-masculine homosexualist ideology played in the early days of the Nazi Party until Hitler purged the most flamboyant of those elements, perhaps to prevent average Germans from turning away from the newly successful fascists.

Say what??

This is shocking. Do you know, I’ve heard that there are even homosexual Republicans!!

Dump Michele Bachmann

I’ve only just discovered the scourge of Minnesota politics, Michele Bachmann. A person has to wonder: how is it that a state capable of producing such great men as Hubert H. Humphrey and Walter Mondale could turn out a freak show wingnut like Michele Bachmann? If you ask me, it’s just further evidence of global warming. The brains of people in the North Land have begun to rot in their skulls.

At any rate, all of my friends in Minnesota (and elsewhere!) will enjoy the Dump Michele Bachmann site. The link I just gave you will take you directly to a page featuring a photo of Bachmann with Condi Rice. Commenters have provided their own captions for the photo and I think there’s no contest. The best caption by far is

“Are you a recovering lesbian like my other black friend?”

Allagash White vs. Dominion Ale

The Washington Post is doing a “Beer Madness” competition thing to supposedly find the best beer in America. They’ve got their bracket right here. Since I’m a new home brewer (more about how my first effort turned out later…), I thought it would be a really good idea to “play along” and sample each of the beers that made it into the Quarterfinals. I was able to buy single bottles of most of the contenders at the Total Wine store at Greenbriar Town Center in Chantilly.

My first beer this evening is Allagash White. It’s a Belgian style spiced wheat beer. I have to admit, I was a little worried about the “spice” part of this brew. I don’t typically like beers that…well…that don’t taste like beer. This beer has a scent that’s a little odd to me. It’s not bad — just different. (Must be those spices, eh?) Happily, the beer tastes just fine. It’s got an almost citrusy tang when it first hits the tongue. Then it sort of mellows right down into a very nice typical wheat beer sort of taste. I’m not tasting anything I could specifically identify as “spices”. To be completely honest, though, my beer palate is, shall we say, unrefined. I know what I like and I know what I don’t like but I’m not all that good at saying exactly what it is that I like or don’t like about a given beer.

I like this Allagash White! I’d definitely buy this again.

Allagash White is competing against Dominion Ale from the Old Dominion Brewing Company here in Virginia. Old Dominion has recently been sold to Fordham Brewing of Maryland and…shudder!…Anheuser-Busch. We’re all keeping our fingers crossed that AB will just help with distribution and not muck around with, you know, the actual beer?? Anywho, so let me crack open a bottle of Old Dominion and give it the old taste test.

Mmm… Now that’s a beer. I’ve had Dominion Ale before and I always enjoy it. It’s got a lovely burnt orange sort of color and a zingy, malty kind of scent. This kind of malty, hoppy taste isn’t for everyone but I really like it.

Between the two…I have to give it to Dominion Ale. There’s nothing at all wrong with the Allagash White. I’d drink it again any day. I just enjoy — this evening, at least — a maltier flavor.