Turkey Day Links

Hokie and I thought that on this day of giving thanks we’re going to give you some recent noteworthy links from around the internet.  Please enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to all our constant readers!

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Kazakhstan: a hellish frozen tundra that would easily be confused with some other planet rather than a former communist bloc satellite country of the Soviet Union.  But alas, being a member of the super secret and elite Task Force 141, you don’t exactly get to pick and choose which locales “they” send you to.  You might be freezing your ass off in the Permafrost today, sweating it on in the narrow funnels of death that make up the shantytowns of Rio.  Infinity Ward’s beyond-anticipated “Modern Warfare 2″ dropped this week, and I finally got my hands on it, though not my own copy.  No, for my own, I’m apparently going to have to wait for Xmas. read the rest over at Blogging Affairs Desk…

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“no one will ever know love until they have a child” Or some shit like that. Really? Like, really really? Do you know me Mommy Breeder? I’m assuming you don’t, (which you don’t) since not only am I married (so therefore I must be loved to a certain degree) have a mother who sends me text messages on every Thursday night to say hello (which I’m sure Hitler didn’t do at any labor camp, he didn’t send them love notes) or have a dog wake you up at one am to be petted (that’s not love, that’s seperation anxiety).  like what you’re reading, head on over to Tittletoo…

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What do Frankenstein, Dracula and a Zombie have in common with Jesus? This ‘Venn-like State of Mind’ piece explains it.  Give Mattias some love and check them out at Somethink Fun…

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A little background here: for those of who you who may not have seen it, way back on this blog, I did a fairly popular series called The Bible Summarized by a Smartass, in which I read the bible all the way through–oddly enough, for the second time in my life–and then summarized it in my own informal way. That was a couple of years ago, and I’ve always wanted to do something else. I didn’t know if I wanted to do something else religious, but figured I should do something that was a big deal to a lot of people that I wasn’t really familiar with. Just to see what the hubbub is. I half-jokingly suggested Twilight, and Jaquandor, who had tried to read the novel and found it awful, loved the idea so much that he sent me his copy of the novel. Couldn’t say this better myself.  See what else the Samurai Frog has to say at Electronic Cerebrectomy…

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I wasn’t alive for the Civil Rights Movement back in the late 1950’s and early 60’s, but Question 1 was our version here in Maine. Yesterday, Maine voted to repeal a law that would have made the state one of a handful that allow same-sex couples to marry. This isn’t to say that this is the same thing as forcing African Americans to the back of the bus, but it as close to the same thing that my generation will ever see. Much like the fight to allow minorities the same rights as white people, question 1 was offering same sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. We aren’t talking special rights, or preferential treatment here folks, the issue here is equal rights. Mark speaks more truths at I’m Just Saying…

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Tipping is a sore subject for a lot of people who worked in restaurants, since anyone who had to depend on the voluntary tippage from a customer has at least once been stiffed, and then of course we see the other extreme where the service was nonexistent but a mandatory service charge was added to the bill… Check out the rest of this rant care of Not Enough Tequila…

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Cranberry Lambic, two simple words that push the tongue out of any beer lover’s mouth. The fruitcake of beers, Cranberry Lambic is one of those beers that stay in the back of your fridge for way too long. Eventually you break down sometime in March and either pour it out or give it to an unsuspecting, non-beer drinking friend under the guise of it being a “not too bad fruit beer”. It truly is amazing that most of the beer drinking public is so unattached to this offering, especially after you consider that it will be celebrating its’20th birthday next year!  Sam Adams friends and foes agree, the Cranberry Lambic has to go.  Read more about it at A Blog About Beer…

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