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Greetings from Misery: The Cave State

Comoprozac December 17, 2008 0Comments

Misery is known to many as “The Cave State.” There are reportedly 6000 caves discovered in MO with more found every day. However, there are other reasons we call her “The Cave State.” Misery is also a state which lives in the past and likes it that way.

$21 million are set to go to life science research in the state, a lot of money in such tough economic times. Typical of the backwards nature of our citizenry, there is a lawsuit to stop such funding because it could go to stem-cell research. Voters have already shown support for stem-cell research, but the pro-lifers in the state won’t have any part of it.

Other evidence that we’re still living in the stone age popped up with this year’s presidential election. Misery was once known as a bellweather state, voting with the rest of the country every year since 1904 (except in 1956). Now, having chosen John McCain over Barack Obama, that status is in question. Of course, had 3,700 of the 17,813 who voted for Ralph Nader (or 11,386 for Barr) switched to Obama, the state’s bellweather status would be intact. Voting for Nader is so 2000.

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Top 25 Beers of All-Time

Comoprozac December 16, 2008 10Comments

I don’t know if you all drink beer in South Dakota or not, but BeerAdvocate has released its list of top-25 beers of all-time. How many of these have you tried? Are they available where you live? I’m willing to trade.

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#1 Rochefort 10 Trappistes Quad*

#2 Stone Imperial Russian Stout

#3 St. Bernardus Abt 12 Quad**

#4 Founders Breakfast Stout

#5 Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock**

#6 Three Floyds Dreadnaugth IPA**

#7 Victory Storm King Stout

#8 Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

#9 Bell’s Two Hearted Ale**

#10 Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA**

#11 Stone Ruination IPA**

#12 Bell’s HopSlam Ale**

#13 Unibroue La Fin du Monde*

#14 Aventinus Weizenbock

#15 North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout**

#16 Duvel Belgian Strong Pale Ale*

#17 Stone IPA**

#18 Stone Double Bastard Ale

#19 Rogue Chocolate Stout*

#20 Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye**

#21 Troegs Nugget Nectar

#22 Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale

#23 Rochefort 8 Trappiste*

#24 Rogue Shakespeare Stout*

#25 Chimay Grand Reserve Blue*

*=We have it here, but I am lame and have yet to try it.

**=I’ve had it and me likey.

America obama

Jello for Change

Comoprozac December 14, 2008 2Comments

If you haven’t written your ideas for change in government on Change.gov yet, it’s time to get on the ball. Jello Biafra (formerly of the Dead Kennedys) beat you to the punch. Using nearly half to two-thirds of the government’s server space to spout off on the kind of change aging-punks-turned-spoken-wordsmith need, Biafra laid out what President-Elect Obama should do in his term as a President. I have a life, so I did not read it all, but here are a few highlights, most of which I agree…

Employ the assistance of willing Muslim volunteer nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen and Morocco) to police Iraq instead of our own troops.
Abolish torture in the intelligence community.
Undo any of the Bush administration’s signing statements tacked onto bills he signed in order to restore the rule of law.
Stamp out election fraud.
Limit political campaigns to between 30 and 60 days. Apparently some country to the north already does this.
End the war on drugs.
Economic stimulus to the people who need it, not corporations.
Give the auto industry a bailout when they produce greener cars.
More trains.
It goes on from here…

If you haven’t written your letter to Mr. Obama, you may want to get on it. Biafra has beat us to many of the best points.

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