Well, my first diary in over two years, on the crucial issue of...  Beer.

Oklahoma is a beer lover's purgatory.

I'm going to be in the Traverse City Mich area all next week.

So...  talk to me!  What should I look for in locally brewed bottled beer?  What should I not miss if I can find it on tap?  Are you out there, Dump Terry McAuliffe?

(...and for Haitians)

I'm sure many of you are aware of the new book by James Mann titled Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, perhaps from last weekend's interview with the author by Liane Hansen on NPR.  Fascinating, scary stuff.

And about bloody time.

- Two for the price of One -

Here's how the Bush administration treats its scant few real allies.

As I leafed through our little local paper this Sunday, I was struck, not once, but three times by articles containing headlines, quotes, or analysis unfavorable to Bush.

(channeling Country Joe for a second, there)

Well, the results are in. And we have a brand new face in the Pentagon's top ten contractors list for fiscal year 2003! Guess who?

Fortune Magazine has an article entitled "The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare".

(alternate Diary title:  "Global Warming-Related Program Activities")

(This was fun to read, and wanted to bring it to a wider audience. The original Haloscan thread is gone, but I would be interested in seeing if any of the authors of the bumpesticker slogans in the extended story are still around -- kos)

I wanted to report an interesting experience - one that was, actually, a source of momentary disorientation.

I received an email at work several days ago.  It contained a selection of humorous Bush '04 re-election slogans.  As I read, I thought "these seem familiar, I'm almost sure these are from DailyKos".  Then, the clincher - I was sudddenly reading my own slogan!  Not that it was that funny (I mean, I liked it or I wouldn't have posted it, but I'm under no illusion that I'm the next Al Franken), but it was unmistakeably mine.

I included the email below, has anyone else seen it?  Or has this been noted at Kos before?  I certainly haven't read every thread.

How deeply has this list permeated the internet, for me to receive it like that, out of the blue?  My work environment is very large and quite conservative.

Two good links: