and No, I am not watching the US political convention.
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But Dave Barry's report is HERE.
and he gets a lesson in cattle raising from the governor of Montana.
It turns out Gov. Schweitzer is something of a wild man. Here is an actual exchange between Jay and him:-------------------------------------------
JAY: How did you get elected in Montana?
SCHWEIZTER: They were drinking.
In addition to being a governor, Schweitzer is a rancher who raises heads of cattle. I asked him if he has ever castrated one.
“Hell yes!” he said. He then proceeded to tell me, in extremely explicit detail,
DaveBarry isn't the only snarky one blogging at the Convention: Ann Althouse is outdoing him in snarkiness...
8:18: Huge storm here! We just lost power here for a few minutes. I lost a whole paragraph of snark about Teddy Kennedy. A young Kennedy — Joseph P. Kennedy III, running for Congress — said the spirit of Teddy was with us here today. It was some prime snark! Did Teddy bring this terrible storm that drowned all my Mary Jo Kopechne material?
I should add, this is Joseph P Kennedy III, who, if elected to congress, will fix America by fiat:
Kennedy declared, "I believe this country was founded on a simple idea: that every person deserves to be treated fairly, by each other and by their government".[12] In the same video, Kennedy vowed to fight for a "fair job plan", a "better educational system", a "fair tax code" and a "fair housing policy".not to be confused with Joseph P Kennedy II, who is most famous in Catholic circles from being the only rich man since Henry VIII who was turned down for an annulment by the Vatican, or Joe Kennedy pere, the pro-fascist ambassador who was fired by FDR...
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And Hillary is doing important diplomatic work in the Cook Islands.
Already straining to accommodate 500 people from 57 nations, local officials have had to ask residents to donate their four-wheel-drives for Clinton's motorcades, and have requested that she limit the size of a traveling party that usually includes dozens of aides.
Scoop.co, a New Zealand website, promised that Clinton's visit to Rarotonga "will be a much bigger show than when [New Zealand rugby champ] Zac Guildford ran naked from waterfront Trader Jacks."----------------------------------------------
Back to the future:
Researchers found women who spent six hours a day doing household chores, going for a brisk walk or gardening were 13 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than their sedentary peers.
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UKMail has an article on a 92 year old WWII veteran in Kentucky who shot a burglar that includes this statistic:
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Nationally the killing of criminals by individuals trying to defend their property has increased in recent years, from 196 in 2005 to 278 in 2010, according to FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics.
Breeding Tasmanian devils to be less aggressive could keep them from becoming extinct.
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Organic foods are no better for you nutritionally, but they do have fewer pesticides.
So if you are too lazy to wash your veggies, chose organic...
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Use Bittorrent? Big brother is watching you.
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The big crisis no one is talking about: The end of cheap food.
the answer: GM food, and fake meat...
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