Archives: 2007 September

Fedex vs. Government Bureaucracy - Newt Gingrich - youtube - 3 min
Earlier this summer I blogged about my attendance at the freedom rally where Newt Spoke. He obviously doesn’t have a new speech written for each appearance, and when I viewed the video I instantly recognized one of my favorite points. The [...]

This former police officer was shot 40 years ago, and the injuries were severe, and left him paraplegic, but alive. Just recently, the man dies in his sixties, and the coroner rules it a homicide and says death was caused due to complications from the 40 year-old bullet wound.
The shooter is still [...]

I can’t help it. As much as I dislike and disrespect the government school system, I have to feel sorry for this guy. He gives an English proficiency test to his teachers, then puts the 24 who fail it on unpaid leave.
Then he takes the test.
And fails it.
Ouch.
The story says he [...]

Deer tongue that is. It’s one of the condimental ingredients in Cornell & Diehl’s #410 “New Market.” Bing Crosby is reportedly known to have enjoyed a mixture of cubed burley with deer tongue. Today that is probably the most widely known example of the herb’s use in a pipe tobacco blend as [...]

That’s what the Health Service told a gentleman with a badly broken ankle that requires surgery to repair. Read the whole story.
This has been discussed on at least one of my favorite pipe smoking forums, where a lot of my friends there seem to think this is an anti-smoking issue. In [...]

Update: Problem solved. I had tinkered with something to see what it does, but forgot to go un-tinker it.
Not sure what the problem is, but you can’t visit individual pages. Troubleshooting in progress.

I love comments. I love to discuss anything I’ve blogged about. I don’t mind criticism. Please leave comments – positive or negative, nice or profane, long or short. The only thing is they won’t appear until I’ve manually reviewed them. I hate spam and spammers so much that rather than risk the occasional spam to [...]

Update: I was reading my blog (I’m one of the few who do) and realized that this post would probably make more sense if I relayed the context. When I made the purchase from E.A. Carey, I was sent and email asking me to review my purchase. This is the full text [...]

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with this site for some time. I can say without hesitation that its all but worthless for simply looking up a blend and getting a solid consensus of opinion. Too many bandwagoners, fanboys, axe-grinders, and frankly, people with no clue. My favorite example is the guy who [...]

I’m not a big fan of cigars. I’m a fan of cigars - just not a big fan. Ok, maybe I’m kind of big…
Anyway….
In my years of questing for the holy grail, I’ve did little searching among cigar blends. I think I can say I’m limited to “Viginia Spice” from Russ Oullette’s [...]