Archive | December 14, 2009

Carbon Tromping with the Sierra Club

I did a couple hikes early last month with the Sierra Club. Good folks, though there were theological tensions with some of ’em. Some lady was talking gravely about reducing her carbon footprint. She got peeved when I suggested wearing tennis shoes instead of boots. Sierra Club types are 100% pro-organic, but they seemed to […]

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The Great Beer Massacre of 2009!

My all-time favorite beer is no longer being imported! I have been a huge fan of Dinkel Acker, a wonderful German pilsner, for more than a decade. I would buy cases at a time, making it worthwhile to scamper across the Potomac to a state with civilized beer buying laws. (Montgomery County, Maryland, has a […]

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