First Cup 10.26.06 »

Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring. ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

First Cup 06.26.06 »

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. ~ Pope Leo XII
Right Wing News (John Hawkins) Prosecute The Leakers, Not The New York Times — “Start things out by asking the reporters to [...]

Attention Wal-Mart Bloggers »

There is a story by Michael Barbaro in the NYT today with the headline Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in Its Public Relations Campaign. I clicked over there because my blog buddy Brian of Iowa Voice is heavily quoted in the story. I’ve read the piece — three times — trying to get an idea of where [...]