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Decision to Stop Making Hummers Saddens Assholes

by LT Saloon on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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Douchebags Seek New Way to Compensate for Tiny Penises

By Andy Borowitz

DETROIT (The Borowitz Report) – General Motors’ decision yesterday to stop manufacturing Hummers has struck at the heart of the group who loved the vehicles most: America’s assholes.

Across the nation, leading assholes spoke of a sense of loss and sadness caused by the decision, and suggested that they would now be searching for new ways to compensate for their small penises.

Tracy Klugian, a realtor in Tempe, Arizona, said that he would consider buying a boat with an annoyingly loud sound system, “but it just won’t say ‘asshole’ like a Hummer does.”

Mr. Klugian, whose penis has been described as “microscopic,” also questioned the timing of GM’s decision.

“Right now, the Hummer is the only thing on the road capable of stopping a Toyota,” he said.  More here.

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The Paranoid States Of America: 12-Year-Old Girl Arrested For Doodling

by LT Saloon on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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Written by Mark Ames

…A Week After 25 High Schoolers Arrested For Food Fight

File this under “Seriously Fucked Up”: While most of America has been hiding under the covers afraid they might have to confront the ghost of Joe Stack, shooing him away by pretending he was something else–”He was a Tea Bagger!”/”He was a liberal!”/”No he was a psychopath!”–anything to avoid seriously talking about how profound and how widely popular his suicide-dive-bombing was…here’s a story that’s a little easier to chew on. It comes to you live from Kiddie Land, where there’s a war on pitting thousands of police and the full force of the law Surging against pre-pubescent doodlers, food-throwers, and tardy students.

Earlier this month, at a New York junior high school, a 12-year-old girl named Alexa Gonzalez pulled out a green magic marker during class, and doodled, “I love my friends Abby and Faith.” The teacher sent her to the principle, who promptly called the “Zero Tolerance” police. The next thing Alexa knew, New York City’s finest burst into the principle’s office, pulled the girl’s arms behind her back, cuffed her, and frog-marched across the quad, so that all her fellow students and teachers could see her bawling her eyes out on her way to the police station. That’ll teach her.

Alexa is a much better person for it, as reported on CNN:

“They put the handcuffs on me, and I couldn’t believe it,” Alexa recalled. “I didn’t want them to see me being handcuffed, thinking I’m a bad person.”Alexa Gonzalez missed three days of school because of her arrest.

She spent those days throwing up, and it was a challenge to catch up on her homework when she returned to school, she said. Her mother says she had never been in trouble before the doodling incident.

Throwing up and traumatized–sounds kind of like what you’d expect from a Guantanamo Bay inmate who’s not cooperating. But America isn’t in its most imaginative–or smart–mood these days, so I guess the thinking is, “Works well in Abu Ghraib, why fix somethin’ that ain’t broke.”

For New York City’s school system, that translates into Surging with an additional 5,000 truancy cops whose job is to root out doodlerists and truants and the like. Unfortunately, with all the budget problems, paying all those cops–poorly trained cops, I might add–means no money left for school counselors, who number just 3,000, or almost half the number of these new counter-doodling cops.

Alexa isn’t the first doodler-terrorist they’ve neutralized. In 2007, NYC cops arrested a 13-year-old girl, Chelsea Fraser, for doodling “Okay” on her desk. Within minutes, Operation Zero Tolerance swung into action:

Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.

“It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they’re going to label me as a bad kid. But I’m really not,” Fraser said. “I didn’t know writing ‘Okay’ would get me arrested.”

“All the kids were … watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four — they had four police officers — walking them out, handcuffed,” [her mother] Silva said. “She goes to me, ‘Mommy, these hurt!’”

[She was] taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. “My child is 13-years-old — doesn’t it stand that I’m supposed to be present for any questioning?” Silva said. “I’m watching my daughter, she’s handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, ‘Yes.’”

The ACLU told CNN about several other doodling-arrests which they are now fighting with a class-action lawsuit. Almost as shocking is the story of a school teacher who was arrested while trying to help one of his students whom the teacher thought was being far too roughly handled. Police arrested the teacher and charged him with assault, although they later dropped those charges.

That’s fine for teachers. But kids can’t be shown any mercy, whether we’re talking about doodling, or food fights. A couple weeks ago in Chicago, police mass-arrested 25 students aged 11-15 following a school cafeteria food fight:

More than two dozen students were slapped with criminal charges in connection with a food fight in the cafeteria at a Chicago charter school.

“The next thing you know I saw a tray fly up in the air, and then I saw an orange fly,” student Jordan Grevious said. ‘Then, I heard the words ‘food fight.’”

But instead of Animal House, these kids are facing the Hot House. And they know it:

They fear some of the kids will have a tough time getting a job or applying for college until their misdemeanor reckless-conduct charge disappears from their records. They’ll appear in court Nov. 30.

“These kids are going to have records for things that they potentially did not even do,” parent Monique Greene complained. “Twenty-seven children up here for a food fight.”

Even the innocent students will face lasting consequences. If the charges are dropped, juvenile records can’t be expunged until the accused becomes 17. Parents are worried this could affect future jobs and college applications.

It’s all part of a meatheaded Zero Tolerance campaign used to terrorize school kids all over the country, part of what’s making this country a meaner place to grow up in. Zero Tolerance doesn’t work, of course. The school shootings in middle-class schools still go on with clockwork regularity, fueled in part by the Zero Tolerance mentality.

Zero Tolerance is worse than a failure; it’s taking a bad situation and making worse, locking both students into what two studies are calling a “Schoolhouse-To-Jailhouse pipeline“:

zero-tolerance policies “are derailing students from an academic track in schools to a future in the juvenile justice system”

this schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track has damaged a generation of children, particularly children of color, by criminalizing trivial offenses and pushing children out of the school system into the juvenile justice system and introducing prison-like secure environments, with drug-sniffing dogs, metal detectors and uniformed law enforcement personnel, thus turning schools into prisons.

And of course, if you feed more and more doodlers and tater-tot tossers into the prison pipeline, that means you produce more and more criminals; and if you create more criminals, well, you gotta do something about all those criminals hitting the streets. Which means: hiring more cops, and training them to attack and pacify any school that’s threatened–like this exercise recently held in Avoca, New York:

Authorities say with school violence on the rise, being prepared for any situation is key.

On Friday, Steuben County law enforcement officers took part of a mock school shooting drill at Avoca High School. The purpose: in case of an emergency, local law enforcement officials in Steuben County want to make sure they are prepared.

“When we get there and have an active shooter we can’t wait for a SWAT team to come. We can’t. We have to go in then and have to know who is going in right or left and how we are going to contain the situation,” says Steuben County Sheriff Joel Ordway.

It’s so insanely counter-intuitive that it borders on black comedy. Or just bad comedy. But that’s how we like doin’ things ’round here these days. The more something fails, the more it will be favored–whether it’s a bank, a pundit, or a policy on doodling and food fights.

About author

Mark Ames was founder and editor of The eXile, the notorious Moscow-based, English-language newspaper shuttered last year after a raid by Russian authorities. He is the author of two books: The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia (together with Matt Taibbi), and Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond.

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Snowy Morning

by Ana Grarian on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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HERD ABOUT IT?
by Ana Grarian

It snowed last night. About six inches down here in the valley, probably considerably more up on the hill, and out in farm country, who knows. Out there it was often hard to tell just how much snow we had because the wind blew it around so much. Our front lawn would be blown bare and then there would be a waist deep drift between the house and the barn.

I slept well this morning. Usually the sound of traffic wakes me up, but when school is closed the streets are crazy quiet. Who are all these people who can stay home when the kids have a snow day? My husband and I never had that job. Truck drivers are expected to keep going until the State Troopers shut the highways down.

Of course this is not actually new to us. When you own livestock, chores don’t end because of snow. Cows still need to be milked and fed. Calves need to be cared for. The driveway needs plowing so the milk truck can get in.

Sometimes it’s a little easier. Chores are limited to the necessities. Sometimes it’s harder. Water pipes don’t usually freeze in a big snowstorm here because, it’s actually somewhat warmer, but we did have to shovel the snow away from the barn doors to get in and out. Getting manure out of the barn can be difficult. Sometimes the runs to the calf hutches need to be cleared out. Fields of grazing animals such as beef need feed delivered to them and the water tanks/holes need to be cleared of ice. When I had sows to take care of they would often have their litters on stormy nights. I think many family doctors have commented on the same phenomena.

Life on the farm, like life in a family goes on. Call me crazy, but I miss it.

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Big Beer Gets Belgian Emotion Flowing

by Professor Good Ales on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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Belgian Cafe quaffers, concerned about InBev, cry, “STELLA!!!”

By John W. Miller, for online.wsj.com

Source: AHA Forum

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV workers protesting job cuts on the picket lines last month had mixed feelings about their employer, the world’s biggest brewer. “We’re proud,” said 46-year-old Laurent Sacré. “Proud, and also disgusted.” Beer is a religion in Belgium, and like Catholics toward their church, feelings here toward the brewing giant combine a mixture of a love, fear and doubt. Contrary to some reports, Belgium didn’t run out of Stella, a light lager that is the company’s most popular brew in Europe, but many bars and drinkers decided they didn’t want any more. “There was a psychological reaction against InBev,” says Jean-Marie Dewandeleer, president of the association of Belgian café owners. “The Belgian beer community is outraged by the idea that even though you’re making profits, you want to lay people off,” said Joris Pattyn, author of “100 Belgian Beers To Try Before You Die. There is a bright side, he adds. “This is an opportunity for small brewers.”

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The Thing That Ate America?

by RS Janes on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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The Tattlesnake – CPAC Proof GOP is Still Doomed Edition

by RS Janes on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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CPAC’s Corporate Mythmakers and True Believers Headed for a Hard Fall

“Con artists have a word for the inability of their victims to accept that they’ve been scammed. They call it the ‘True Believer Syndrome.’”
– Matt Taibbi, “Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle,” Rolling Stone, Feb. 21, 2010.

You know you’re in trouble when your keynote speaker is Glenn Beck, the current Dancing Bear of the Fox Evening Zoo and promulgator of preposterous pompous carnival-clown revisionism of everything from the political thinking of progressive Tom Paine to the nature of Marxism. (Well, at least he left the cry-eye Vick’s VapoRub in the dressing room for this event.) Beck, like the rest of the Fox News team, seems to delight in unapologetically getting it wrong, time after time, and he knows his fans never read such authors as Paine or Karl Marx so, with skillful editing, ventriloquist Glenn can plant whatever Bizarro World ideas he desires in the mouths of the departed and defenseless. The most dedicated inhabitants of TV’s Beckistan no doubt reject the proof of their own eyes and ears when confronted with any reality that veers from the Ringmaster’s teachings, as any mind-locked True Believer does. It’s a matter of faith — in a Republican Jesus, or Roger Ailes’ political ads disguised as news, or Frank Luntz’s fright-laden euphemisms, or a former beauty queen turned half-term governor from Alaska. It’s amazing that they wave the flag of freedom so strenuously – they apparently only want the freedom to follow a leader, and down the narrowest of ideological paths, at that.

Speaking of Gov. Mrs. Palin, she was not in appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference; not only could the organizers not meet her hefty price for speechifying, but she perhaps discerned, with the dumb canniness sometimes given to the vapid, that she wouldn’t be welcome in a crowd that voted Mitt Romney first in their last three presidential straw polls.

And then there’s the bright-eyed Romney himself; like most of his party, the former Massachusetts governor stopped making any consistent and coherent sense long ago; his speeches are now grab-bags of memorized GOP Talking Points and anti-Obama crowd-pleasers, but he has mostly refrained from the cringe-inducing personal vignettes such as tying incontinent pets to the roof of the family ride for a jaunt on the open highway or his Milquetoast macho-man exploits of gunning down small rodents with a hunting rifle. The things most people would be embarrassed to admit, Mitt banters about airily with a male model’s manly grin, which I guess proves he is a Republican to his core.

And speaking of core Republicans, we have Mr. Cheney, Richard the Lyin’-Hearted, a man with no intelligence or military experience (an appointment as Secretary of Defense does not make one an expert on interrogation or confinement), who openly boasts that his unconstitutional torture program worked, believes he competently handled his role as White House counter-terrorism chief prior to 9/11, and has a long, clanking string of wrongheaded predictions following him like a trail of empty cans tied to a cat’s tail. Cheney is arguably the most disliked politician in America, but in the upside-down world of CPAC, he is a national champion and was greeted with the garlands of approbation by the assembled worshippers in Washington that he once erroneously said would be thrown at our troops in Iraq. Perhaps as a sign of how far out in the ozone the gathered Republicans and their neoconservative cohorts orbit, many lustily cheered a Cheney run for president in 2012; Bush’s superordinate vice president had enough sense to tease and then quickly squelch that notion and spare himself the humiliation of a 50-state landslide victory for President Obama.

Cheney, on cue, availed himself of the opportunity to produce another of his wacky spells of side-splitting clairvoyance – the Republicans would be resurgent in 2010 and Obama would be a one-term president. With his shot-in-the-face record of the exact opposite happening, you’d think he’d bury his cloudy crystal ball and stop making an ass of himself in this way but, then, you don’t know Dick – he seems to thrive on being wrong and then denying it. Regardless of the Beltway Conventional Wisdom, three races where the Republican won against miserable Dem candidates does not make a trend and, as the overworked Cocktail Party Punditocracy cliché goes, “in politics, a month is like a year.” With Cheney’s smug regurgitation of this trite BCW on the glowing prospects for Republicans this year, it’s bankable that it won’t be quite as bad a year for the Democrats as the GOP would like it to be. And defeating Obama in 2012? Perhaps Dick should have a candidate in mind first to complete that task – none of the current GOP front-runners would come anywhere near to pushing Obama out of the presidency except Ron Paul, and Cheney and the GOP elite loathe him.

There was plenty of other entertainment at CPAC to those with a sardonic sense of humor, including mass booing for 2008 Libertarian presidential candidate and former GOP congressman Bob Barr for denouncing torture, and against some obnoxious knucklehead who was ironically jeered for going after a gay group. Said knucklehead’s crime was that the gay group was Republican and the Grand Old Pious party needs every adherent they can get these days as the number of registered voters willing to confess they support the Republican brand continues to dwindle and age, along with the audience for the Right-Wing Disinfotainment Industry. The world turned upside-down indeed.

Of course, our Big Corporate Media that disguises itself as pure and objective did another habitual public disservice in its coverage of CPAC by not pointing out that most of the attendees were not average Conservo-Americans by any stretch – instead they were mostly lobbyists, party hacks, media dipsticks, the big money bags, Republican politicians and staffers, and those who earn their livelihoods by peddling products to this rarified bunch. In other words, these were the high-flying DC insiders who can afford to take off work, or who make their money by bowing and scraping to the GOP elite, which is why Cheney was greeted as a conquering hero, and lightweights such as Mitt Romney were taken seriously – they are both high-flying DC insiders as well.

Perhaps most indicative of the insider bent of the CPAC house of wax was the final results of the presidential straw poll – Ron Paul won it going away with 31 percent of the vote. Distant number two was Mitt Romney at 22 percent, and ‘Joan of Dark’ Palin wasn’t even in double-digits. It was surreally amusing, if predictable, to watch a large portion of the assemblage howl down its own presidential pick: Paul represents the old-line libertarian/conservative Republican who wants to drastically cut the Pentagon’s inflated budget, get us out of foreign wars, dissolve the dreams of empire, end the privatization of our military, shut down the ludicrous drug war, and enforce the terms of the Constitution, all items not popular with the DC insiders who reap billions of taxpayer dollars from supporting and advancing that list of misery. Worst of all, to the GOP elite, Paul is sincere – they hate that.

But another alarm bell auguring an unrosy Republican future was sounded by none other than recently elected hero-turned-zero Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who had the temerity to part with the break-Obama GOP leadership and vote for a Dem jobs bill that he thought would be beneficial to the residents of his state. In all the excitement over winning Ted Kennedy’s old seat, some of the Republicans apparently forgot to check Brown’s record in Mass. state government – he was ranked more liberal than three-fourths of the statehouse Republicans in a state that has the most liberal Republicans in the country. Today he is being condemned by the right for being a ‘traitor’ and a ‘RINO’ simply because he thought the government should act in the interest of the people rather than the GOP. In a sweet twist, he may turn out to be a great asset to Obama, and fix the doom of the current Limbaugh-loving fringe-right neocon Republican Party. When scared GOP incumbents begin buying pick-up trucks and start campaigning as independents who will cooperate with Obama to make government work for the citizenry, the nasty Talking Points Choir of the Rove-Luntz Axis of Evil that has dominated the party for over a decade will finally be at an end.

Yes, there’s no denying the Democrats have been lame since Obama’s election but, compared to the fire-breathing maniacs and corrupt corporatists presently running the GOP, the voters might very well prefer reasonable and lame to racist and insane.

Quoting the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the Tattlesnake reiterates his prediction that for the GOP Elite of the DC Insiders, “the doom comes soon,” with an irresolvable spilt between the rational Colin Powell/Ron Paul Libertarian Realists and the babbling-idiot Glenn Beck Regressive Christopublicans, and likely before the 2012 election — maybe even in 2010, if the Democrats pass real health care reform.

© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.

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Blackwater and Eric Cartman

by LT Saloon on Wed, Feb 24, 2010

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“Respect my a-thor-ih-tie!”

(Image shrunk to fulfill copyright/wiki requirements)

AP / Huffington Post:

WASHINGTON – A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared “sidearms for everyone” even though employees weren’t authorized to carry weapons.

The inquiry by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that contractors for Paravant, the Blackwater subsidiary under investigation, also took hundreds of weapons intended for the Afghan National Police. On at least one occasion, someone signing for a weapons shipment used the name “Eric Cartman.” The Washington Independent reports:

Blackwater personnel appear to have gone to exceptional lengths to obtain weapons from U.S. military weapons storehouses intended for use by the Afghan police. According to the committee, at the behest of the company’s Afghanistan country manager, Ricky Chambers, Blackwater on at least two occasions acquired hundreds of rifles and pistols from a U.S. military facility near Kabul called 22 Bunkers by the military and Pol-e Charki by the Afghans. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of all U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, wrote to the committee to explain that “there is no current or past written policy, order, directive, or instruction that allows U.S. Military contractors or subcontractors in Afghanistan to use weapons stored at 22 Bunkers.”

On one of those occasions, in September 2008, Chief Warrant Officer Greg Sailer, who worked at 22 Bunkers and is a friend of a Blackwater officer working in Afghanistan, signed over more than 200 AK-47s to an individual identified as “Eric Cartman” or possibly “Carjman” from Blackwater’s Counter Narcotics Training Unit. A Blackwater lawyer told committee staff that no one by those names has ever been employed by the company. Eric Cartman is the name of an obnoxious character from Comedy Central’s popular “South Park” cartoon.

The findings by Democratic staff on the Senate Armed Services Committee paint a disturbing picture of lawlessness that contributed to the May 2009 shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians and fed anti-Western sentiment in the region.

“Blackwater operated in Afghanistan without sufficient oversight or supervision and with almost no consideration of the rules it was legally obligated to follow,” said Sen. Carl Levin, the committee’s chairman.

“Even one irresponsible act by contractor personnel can hurt the mission and put our troops in harm’s way,” Levin said.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the company, which is now known as Xe Services, said management was taking steps to address shortcomings in the program when the shootings occurred.

Read the rest HERE.

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From the Bottle Collection

by Ken Carman on Tue, Feb 23, 2010

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Without intent, I have collected well over 1,000 beer bottles since the early 70s. When something finally had to be done about the cheap paneling in this old modular, I had a choice. Tear down the walls while, oh, so carefully, replacing the often rotted 1X3s. Or: cover them with… The Bottle Collection.

Written by Ken Carman

Eaglebrook Saloon
258 Dedham Street
Norfolk, MA 02056


Eaglebrook Saloon isn’t a brewpub, it’s a wild west like saloon in Norfolk, Massachusetts. They vend out to New England breweries that allow the owner to design his own recipes and one is Dog’s Breath. Not quite an Imperial IPA because the alcohol isn’t that high, but the hops are beyond IPA. Yet it is well balanced: a neat trick.

Very enjoyable. They also have their own Blueberry and other in-house, yet vended out for, beers.

I have had their chili which is great: well worth the trip and the atmosphere is Billy the Kid-ish. Great portions. One almost expects to see gunslingers at the bar and up in the rafters. That’s right, there’s a second floor with a railing.

Two numbers listed on Facebook: 508-384-7312 and 508-384-7235, though I’m not sure if this is still 508. Mass. has added more area codes in the past few years.

They call Dog’s Breath a “Bitter” on several sites I visited, but this is no British Bitter: there’s just too much here hop-wise. British Bitters “Pale” in comparison to what American brewers are doing with hops. (Yes, that was a bad Brit joke, wasn’t it?) American brewers seem to have focused their hop maximizing with IPAs and I-IPAs, less on the ESB side. Perhaps a very hopped up American Pale?

Eaglebrook also has a great micro selection, as well as other beers designed by them and brewed, last time I spoke with them, by Mercury Brewing: formerly Ipswich Brewing… if I remember the conversation right. Or maybe I imagined that conversation… just the Dog’s Breath barking back at me?

Another Dog’s Breath, please.

Aw, do I really have to rollover, sit and beg?

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Mr. Tony

by Professor Good Ales on Tue, Feb 23, 2010

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Written by Casey Phillips for Chattanooga Times

Pictures by Ken Carman from 2009 Fugetaboutit 2009

(Tony was part of a previous article last December here at Professor Good Ales- Prof. GA)

After one look in the garage of his Signal Mountain home, it’s clear Tony Giannasi has a bit of a thing for brewing beer.

Even if the six-tap system built into his refrigerator and a freezer stuffed with different kinds of hops didn’t raise a red flag, the massive custom-built brewery taking up half a wall might.

“I’m a big beer nerd,” Mr. Giannasi said, laughing. “When you see my garage, it’s like, ‘Oh my goodness, you have a problem, sir.’ ”

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As president of the local Barley Mob brewers club with the capability to produce 15 gallons of beer at once (three times the typical home brew output), Mr. Giannasi may not qualify as a casual hobbyist, but he’s far from alone in his interest in home brewing.

About 750,000 people brew beer at home in the United States, and national participation in the hobby has increased by about 20 percent every year since 2005, according to estimates by the American Homebrewers Association.

And the participants are starting younger. In the past, new brewers were usually in their 30s or 40s, but now, they’re in their 20s, said Gary Glass, the director of the AHA and a 17-year veteran brewer.

“This generation seems very interested in self-expression, and home brewing is a good artistic outlet,” Mr. Glass said. “With home brewing, you can create whatever flavor you want in beer.”

That’s why Mr. Giannasi, 33, began brewing when he was 28.

When he discovered local stores didn’t carry a blonde ale and espresso stout he become enamored with at the 2005 Southern Brewers Fest, Mr. Giannasi said he grabbed a recipe book instead.

Since then, he’s explored exotic flavors like Russian Imperial Stouts and German Maibachs among the two dozen different types of beer he’s made in his garage.

As with most home brewers, Mr. Giannasi is more likely to give his beer away than drink it himself.

“The kind of person who wants to make their beer is not a heavy drinker,” he said. “They’re going for more flavor and quality.”

Mr. Giannasi said he’s hard pressed to find any downsides to the hobby, though he’s quick to admit he’s probably not the right one to ask.

“I’m sure my wife could come up with a couple,” he said, laughing. “I think the time consuming thing would be her biggest complaint.

“You also run the risk of talking about beer constantly and annoying your spouse.

Read the rest of the article HERE.

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Ye Old Scribe’s Incredible, Inedible Quote Machine

by Ye Olde Scribe on Tue, Feb 23, 2010

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“More fun than a barrel full of dissected flying Right Wing monkey parts.”

“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.”

State Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA)

Scribe: So you’re saying we’re suffering your idiocy because someone with a little more brains than you was aborted?

Want to bet he considers himself a God worshiping, Jesus loving, Christian man?

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