Readers of this blog might get the impression that every season is the season for dark Belgian ales and porters. Not so! In fact many brewers kick off the spring with light wheat beers and a MaiBock named after the month we just passed. The bock variety uses a combination of lighter and darker malts …
Archives for June 2006
A Man’s Home is the Government’s Castle
Via Radley Balko, this truly frightening ruling: Police may enter Californians’ homes without warrants to arrest those suspected of driving under the influence, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The 6-1 decision follows similar rulings in …
Better Warn Santa
Greenhouse warming can get pretty extreme: Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation hot spot with a 74-degree Fahrenheit average temperature, alligator ancestors and palm trees. It’s smack in the middle of the Arctic. First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years …
Talk Is Cheap
Also via the Political Animal is a post in which Drum discusses Andrew Sullivan’s confusion about the current Republican leadership and this administration: But it’s not just the Iraq war and it’s not just Bush. It’s the entire Republican leadership. For example, they claim to be worried about nuclear terrorism, but they pay virtually no …
Here We Go Again
And for those of you who might want to quibble with my opinion that this administration seeks to do whatever it wants, using the threat of terrorism as its excuse for an unending series of power grabs, we have this (via the Washington Monthly): Big Internet and telephone companies are girding to fight an unprecedented …
GI Not Guilty
While all the Haditha accusations are flying, we have a jury verdict for at least one case of alleged abuse in Afghanistan: In a last, sharp rebuke to Army prosecutors who had charged more than a dozen soldiers with abusing prisoners at a secret military jail in Afghanistan, a military jury on Thursday acquitted a …
Shameless Partisan Hackery
It looks like I was wrong when I wrote that immigrants are the new gay. It looks like gays are the new gay: President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers. The amendment would …