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5-12-02
Quote
of the day
yeah, and those
who don't like it can suck my non-existent dick!
- Cantinera
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More on why Europe sucks
Brian
at Samizdata has
an observation.
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A birthday
Tex
snr. turned 71 today. Many happy returns laddie, and the hope that there
are many, many more birthdays to come.
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Utterly Essential Site of the Day....................
This is just one of
the funniest muthafuckin' websites you'll see: Little
Tiny Wit run by a bloke called Steve H. Check out some of his hysterical
columns
and the "news"
section.
I'm not kidding, this
fella is a good a writer as Lileks.
Steve on motorcycles;
A motorcycle
may look a lot like a bicycle with a gas tank, but in reality, there
are subtle differences. Such as the fact that a typical sportbike does
0-60 in under three seconds. And if you really have a death wish, you
can go to your dealer's showroom, hand over a check for ten grand, and
buy a machine that will finish the quarter-mile about a hundred yards
ahead of a Ferrari.
And people buy
these things for their CHILDREN. Why do we argue all the time about
whether it's okay to have an abortion? Wait until the kid turns sixteen
and buy him a Yamaha. You see them all the time here in Miami, riding
around in cutoffs and beach sandals. The cops call beach sandals "Cuban
motorcycle boots."
Steve on american
beer;
Since starting
this site, I've remembered the days of my twisted youth, when I dreamed
of traveling the world as the Apostle of Hops, drinking myself silly
in the great beer towns of the world, waking in their gutters, and penning
beery screeds intended to connect the dots between bad American beer
and the same sickness of heart that resulted in dumbed-down cartoons,
slow cars, gun control, and Jimmy Carter.
Real beer is
made from barley. Generally. You can also make it with wheat. I'm sure
that if you look around hard enough, you can find legitimate, quality
beer made from almost anything, but bizarre niche brews aside, good
beer does not contain corn or rice. The things Budweiser and all the
other big-money American beers are made from.
Eventually, bean
counters made their way into the beer industry like beer-souring bacteria
infiltrating a tank of fermenting wort, and they realized two things:
1) you can make beer cheaper if you use crappy ingredients, and 2) the
American public will drink raw sewage if you pimp it during football
games.
People always
talk about "the American public" as if it were some kind of
slack-jawed, Guess-wearing brain trust. Politicians, many of whom got
started as jury-ass-kissing trial lawyers, are always on TV saying "The
American Public is too smart for THIS," and "The American
Public is too smart for THAT." Well, guess what? If the American
Public were a person, it would have to sleep in a bed with rails, wearing
a hockey helmet. The American Public is the same bunch of goofs who
made Jerry Springer rich and re-elected Bill Clinton.
Go read everything
on the site, right now.
Thanks to John B.
of Florida for the heads-up.
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