Linkpost: 08/12/08
- What If the FBI Is Right About Bruce Ivins? (Randall Larsen, WSJ) This story should really be getting more play, for the reasons offered.
- I'm Sigmund Freud, and I Approve This Message (Paul Waldman, TAP) I don’t think this is intentionally humorous, but I can’t always tell with the Loony Left.
- Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad? (Christopher Hitchens, Slate) Because some partisans are heavily invested in bad news?
- The War in Iraq Is Over. What Next? (Bing West, WSJ)
- The Front-Runner’s Fall (Joshua Green, Atlantic)
- Georgia falls victim to pipeline politics (John Roberts, Platts) The headline doesn’t really do this sober, realistic analysis justice.
- A Path to Peace in the Caucasus (Mikhail Gorbachev, WaPo)
- Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili's 'calculated gamble' (Marjorie Miller & Geraldine Baum, LA Times)
- Stoking Tensions: Russia Blames the Victim (Svante Cornell, Spiegel)
- Europe Grapples with Russia-Georgia Woes (Jack Ewing & Mark Scott, Spiegel)
- Sarkozy Closes in on a Deal: Russia Agrees to Withdraw from South Ossetia (Spiegel)
- Oil in troubled mountains (Robert Cutler, Asia Times)
- The Advantage of the First Move (Robert Kaplan, Atlantic)
- Russia-Georgia conflict offers glimpse at New World Order (Gerald Seib, WSJ)
- Moscow's sinister brilliance (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- Russia's Power Play (George Will, WaPo)
- Who's winning the message war, Obama or McCain? (Alex Koppelman, Salon.com)
- Negative ads: They really do work (Mark J. Penn, Politico)
- Life Sentence (Sarah Blustain, TNR) TNR finds that McCain is a pro-life zealot. And this is worse than a pro-infanticide zealot in what way?
- Why Obama is in trouble (Steven Warshawsky, RCP)
- Texas Is Fed Up With Corn Ethanol (Rick Perry, WSJ) The entire country should be fed up with food as fuel.
- Why Tony Blair May Be Having a Laugh (Kyle Wingfield, WSJ)
- The Galbraith effect? (Thomas Sowell, RCP)
- The Global Ambition of Rick Warren (David Van Biema, Time)
- The reality of those three a.m. moments (Brothers Judd)
- Year No. 4 for Gundy: He's still a man, and now he's 41 (Scott Wright, Daily Oklahoman) Still a goof is more like it. So funny that T. Boone State U thinks Gundy needs time to grow into his job, but saw no need to have such patience with its basketball coach.
- Cowboys sticking by Brad Johnson (Mac Engel, FWST) At least until Chris Simms is available.
- Aug. 12, 1981: IBM Unveils 5150 PC (Randy Alfred, Wired) Happy 27th, IBM PC!
- And the next great American beer will be…? (Edward McClelland, Salon.com) Who ever would have thought the original SMSU float trippers would be so ahead of the “cool curve” with our PBR? 😀
3 comments On Linkpost: 08/12/08
That’s funny. I "discovered" Pabst Blue Ribbon when I went to NTSU in 1973. I was used to paying $1.25 for a 6-pack in Amarillo, but most everything around Denton was $2. However, you could get 12-packs of PBR for $2.50. Coincidentally, they were the first 12-packs I had ever seen. Hey, it was 1973.
PBR was a real bargain in Springfield MO as well in late 80s/early 90s, and so long as it was kept really cold, it was just fine. Good float trip/tailgate beer!
During the hazy mid-1990s, I think PBR 12 packs could be had ice cold in West Plains for $4-$4.50, but now that the faux-hawked trendies have discovered Pabst, I can’t seem to find it for under $8/12, or maybe $6.99. For a head-splitting drunk, Beast Ice is a better deal at $5/12, and 5.9% ABV, to boot!
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