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Published Letters: 161 Editor's Choice: 5
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Debate
[Read the article: Forget what he said -- McCain's not against gay adoption]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Watch out for Bush's Bulge 2 - the Return of the Hump.
McCain will be wired up like a Christmas tree and his words will be as original as Charley McCarthy.
BLeh
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I started drinking beer in the late 70's and man was the beer bad...
[Read the article: The rise and fall of an American beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Buckhorn was our "local" beer - $.89/six on sale.
It was mostly killed by Coors when it nationwide. Everybody thought Coors was the next best thing - but I knew it was piss - I couldn't understand why everybody didn't think so.
I came out to school in California and fell in love with Anchor Steam - my buddies couldn't understand why I would be willing to forgo a 12 pack of Bud in favor of a 6 pack of Anchor.
Then I discovered foreign beers....
Guinness Stout, New Castle Brown, Orval, Pilsner Urquel, Tsing Tao, Sapporo, Tooth Sheaf Stout, SAn Miguel Dark, and Negro Modelo were our standard fare. A 22 Oz Tooth Sheaf was a good evening's beer.
When I went to Peru in 1981, a Budweiser can cost more than a bottle of Guinness.... I nearly gave up school to become a beer smuggler.
I heard on the radio that Bud still holds 48% of the beer market in the U.S. - oh, well, all the more Brother Thelonious for me...
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Carling Black Label
[Read the article: The rise and fall of an American beer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Someone's mention brought back memories of "bad Beer" party that we had in college.
Everybody brought a 6 pack.
The six had to be less than $2.
A kid's wading pool with ice and water was used to chill the beer.
We had blind and not-quite blind taste tests.
The six of Carling Black Label won hands-down.
"Like muddy water strained through a dirty gym sock" was the closest description that rang true.Never knew if it was just a past-due six or what, as I never felt inclined to try it again...
By the way, this was the only party that I can recall from that era where there was left over beer - it took us weeks to get desperate enough to drink some of that swill.
As Emile says in Ratatouille:
"It’s not too bad once you muscle past the gag reflex”
Pax
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The goves are coming off
[Read the article: Klein questions McCain's temperament]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain will say or do anything to win. He is known for his inability to control his temper. Do you think that appropriateness or the gravity of his aspired position should prevent his blind ambition from unleashing any possible attack? He has made jokes about killing citizens of a sovereign nation that has not attacked us. McCain allegedly called his wife a c*nt and a trollop.
"In his memoir, "Worth the Fighting For," McCain provided what appears to be his fullest explanation of the subject, acknowledging his temper but writing that he sometimes uses it strategically.
"My temper has often been both a matter of public speculation and personal concern," McCain wrote. "I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interest or the public's. I have regretted losing my temper on many occasions. But there are things worth getting angry about in politics, and I have at times tried to use my anger to incite public outrage. I make no apologies for that. . . . When public servants lose their capacity for outrage over practices injurious to the national interest, they have outlived their usefulness to the country."
Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has often tangled with McCain over ethanol subsidies, which Grassley views as crucial and McCain has said he sees as wasteful. But the hottest disagreement took place when the two got into a heated argument in 1992 over McCain's contention that a former prisoner of war in Vietnam had been a traitor. McCain peered closely into Grassley's face as he shouted an obscenity at his Iowa colleague, according to reports published over the years."http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/?page=2
Sounds like my friend who admits that he used to have a drinking problem, but now it's under control.
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I agree - it's an ad
[Read the article: How safe is safe? ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I work in IT and I know an ad when I see it.
For most folks - a router, a firewall, anti-virus software, and a decent anti-spyware software - spybot s&d - and common sense will take care of 99.9% of the issues.
Pax
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I nag my wife to not wear heels.
[Read the article: Man on the street (in stilettos)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and I harassed (when single) my girlfriends about it. I worked in Physical Therapy for 8 years and saw elderly patients who had to wear house slippers with heels on them because their heel cords were so shortened. Without a heel, they would fall over backwards.
Heels are bad for your feet, knees, hips, back, neck and jaw. TMJ can be related to high heels - as your body makes adjustment for unnatural weight-shifts and gait pattern.
BTW - my wife is 5'2" and after 15 years, I think she is down to one pair of 2" pumps which she wears to weddings and job interviews.
Pax
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John McCain Endorses Barak Obama as the Second Cominng!
[Read the article: New McCain Web ad mocks Obama as false Messiah]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]News at 11 -
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I have been waiting more than 35 years for any decent coverage of wrestling.
[Read the article: That moment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it's not like Americans don't participate in the sport....
Every junior high, high school and most colleges have a wrestling team.
I have a theory that there might be more coverage this time - there are women wrestlers....
If that's what it takes ----