Jarrett House NorthNow with 80% less politics!

…to Tony Pierce for the birthday shout-out. Go check out Tony’s site, and flow him a buck or 10 while you’re at it.

Also, leave some reassuring messages about his book travails (or just pre-order a copy). Publishing is a vale of tears. Or something. (Not that I’ve tried, but just about everything else worth [...]

The Northwest has a wealth of small independent breweries, and each seems to be in the holiday spirit with the production of holiday ales. (For those who haven’t had the pleasure, a holiday (also known as Christmas ale, winter ale, or seasonal ale) is a one-off ale, usually dark, brewed with various spices.
I had resolved [...]

Tony reminded me: it isn’t just my birthday today. Yep, today is Britney Spears’s 21st.
(I hesitate to file this one under Music, but hell, why not? As I understand it, Britney does occasionally sing.)

Reading over the previous post, I realized that I was a little harsh on Dave for not making RSS redirect from Manila easier. After all, his dad is in the hospital recovering from a very near brush with death. Hope your dad recovers completely, Dave.more…

I wouldn’t have thought that moving this blog to a new server would take so long. On one level, it’s done: all my old data is on the new server, happily cooking along, and I’m directing all the new content to the new site. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that there are a lot [...]

I should post a link to the other article that set me off this morning, also in the Washington Post: “In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects: Those Designated ‘Combatants’ Lose Legal Protections.” The Post is coming around to points that I started making last year:

…under authority it already has or is asserting in court [...]

I have been deliberately not blogging about matters political, including our charming Attorney General Singin’ John Ashcroft, for a while. But the latest report in the Washington Post, that Ashcroft urged his staffers to deny FOIA requests, tipped me over the edge.
The story is bad enough. The Justice Department has in the past withheld data [...]

Good morning! Thirty years is far too short a time with all of you. As Bilbo Baggins once said, I feel I know less than half of you as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as I should.
And thanks to Esta for the technicolor reminder [...]