Bill Seubert

Stephan Pastis is the cartoonist that draws my favorite strip, Pearls Before Swine.  My friends know that one of my cynical sayings is “People are stupid.”  And I also often use Pearls’ Rat as my avatar on Twitter.  So the two have come together in today’s strip:

Classic.

I’ll be at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC this week, writing on the events there.  I’ll be posting at Redstate, and here as well!

Watch Redstate.com for updates starting on Thursday.

Science/religion/semi-squish (“Crunchy Con”) Rod Dreher published a blog entry today on the “growler”. The “growler” is (typically?) a half-gallon jug that one can take to a bar and/or store (Whole Foods?) where you can get the bottle filled with tap beer to go. This is something I’ve never heard of around here in the Midwest, but apparently it’s quite common in some parts of the country.

It appears that these things weren’t legal here until 2009.

You know, this idea of half-gallons of draught beer to go is change I can believe in. Where’s my Schlafly Winter ESB?

One of the reasons I hate winter is that I can’t ride my new obsession:

That’s a 2010 Yamaha V-Star 950. My bike is a 2009, but they’re almost identical. The Yamaha is my first “real” bike. We also own one of these:

but after riding the V-Star, the Vespa feels like a bicycle. It IS fun to ride every once in a while, though.

However, my real dream bike just came out from Harley-Davidson this year. Behold, the Fat Boy Lo.

I LOVE the V-Star…it has plenty of power, sounds great, and runs great. But the H-D is the ultimate. I want.

So, back to my whining about winter… I lament the inability to ride the bikes during the winter, not to mention the fact that I H-A-T-E driving a car in the snow.

Anyone who knows me well knows that I DETEST winter.  I hate fall only a bit less than winter, because fall comes before winter.  But this pic, shared by a friend, reflects my attitude pretty well: