Jacob Grier: Coffee, Cocktails, Commentary & Conjuring

Jacob Grier

Coffee, Cocktails, Commentary, and Conjuring

July 8, 2008

Links for 7/8/08 AM

No futures in onions

Bob Barr praises Helms. Ugh.

SF restaurants sue over calorie posting law

Michael Turner, comics code rebel

Social tip: M&S not suitable for S&M

Old World reds turning to screw caps

Bourbon becomes a booming industry

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July 7, 2008

Links for 7/7/08 AM

McCain health plan would end tax favoritism; plan is “radical and right”

Republicans need “politics of aspiration”

GOP rebels against McCain; rise of the Obamacons

E-Verify’s curse of “tentative non-confirmation”

Big Brother costs Brits 20 billion pounds

Wimbledon’s grass art

Dark Knight writer: This one is better

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July 4, 2008

Links for 7/4/08 AM

Rogier’s thoughts on the 4th

Where did those flag pins come from, anyway?

New food crisis report increases blame on biofuels

Record setting crab caught in England

Yearbooks in decline

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July 3, 2008

Links for 7/3/08 AM

My hometown’s devious fireworks fines

New landings cut down on fuel, noise

What, exactly, are probiotics supposed to do?

My kind of grocery aisle

Quite possibly the worst op/ed I’ve ever read

Drunk Swede tries to row home from Denmark

How not to be green

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July 2, 2008

Links for 7/2/08 AM

Doubts cast on the long tail

Taxes account for 16% of airline ticket prices

Hitchens recants: Waterboarding is torture

The good news in Iraq: Alcohol is back!

Unintended consequences of UK’s smoking ban

Latest on the menthol ban

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July 1, 2008

Links for 7/1/08 AM

Dark Knight shuns CGI for real action

CA cell phone driving ban goes into effect

Environmental crises from the past

Che finally gets his due

10 most awesome anti-terrorism patents

Long-term benefits from magic mushrooms

Charades reveals innate linguistic structure

For $400 extra, new iPhone offered without contract

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June 30, 2008

Links for 6/30/08 AM

Was Julian Simon wrong?

Inidividual rights interpretation of Ninth Amendment in Heller

How NC stacks the deck against third parties

IL smoking ban ignored outside Chicago

Cig machine age verifier easily fooled

Narcoleptic dog fails at staying awake

VT loosens raw milk law

Tobacco nannies: The mask comes off

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June 27, 2008

Links for 6/27/08 AM

Gun rights fight is far from over

CA emissions plan heavy on mandates

Who owns the water falling from the sky? Not you

Exec says GM crops need less regulation, decades to develop

Nelson Mandela cleared for takeoff

Epic Rickroll

Nashville’s rail fail

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June 26, 2008

Links for 6/26/08 AM

Do organic pigs breed more bad bugs?

How we’ve doubly subsidized US Sugar

Pot in, tobacco out

A solid coffee guide from Portfolio

Don’t drink coffee? Just smell it

Troy McClure’s resume

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June 25, 2008

Links for 6/25/08 AM

Zimbabwean inflation reaches 355,000%; Steve Hanke on how to fix it

DHS is in your computer, reading your files

What to expect from airline wi-fi

Pondering the potentially imminent extinction of homosexuals

Tim Lee on the fiction of a “free-market movement”

Introducing sci-fi to girlfriends

The bar blender makes a comeback

Sending back the orange cubes

How blogs die

Cigar Aficionado’s illegal cigar reviews

Rob Kasper discovers miracle fruit

Japanese-style game shows coming to US

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June 24, 2008

Links for 6/24/08 AM

Meet Stephen Morrissey, your new World Barista Champion

Scapegoating the speculators

California to require environmental impact stickers on cars

Controversy over “uncontacted” tribe photos

“I guess I’m old-fashioned; I like a guy to e-mail first.”

For a brief, glorious time, you could ship your children by mail

Forget the wi-fi, I love the poster

The state vs. sandwiches

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June 23, 2008

Links for 6/23/08 AM

Obama has ties to ethanol industry, favors subsidies

NY cig taxes increase black market

Houston still booming in slagging economy

Amber writes Houston a poetic ode

Humorous reviews for $500 cables

Raw milk: Ban it or drink it?

John Deere rug

Fud goes heer

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June 20, 2008

Links for 6/20/08 AM

Kelo’s house re-opens, development project still a failure

President Obama may have already accomplished something good

Olympic Village can’t get funding, taxpayers stuck with tab

Brits keep stiff upper lip whilst losing civil liberties

Water ice found on Mars! Pfft, I can get that in Jersey

A monumental enema

Boeing 787 Dreamliner powers up

Brew pops are back at Rustico

Free sherry tastings in DC this weekend

Terrible fruit snack idea

Invisible snow shovel

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June 19, 2008

Links for 6/19/08 AM

Obama supports public financing, except when he can raise more money without it

Market for helper ferrets takes a dive

Comet Pizza ftw, Frank Winstead fail

Unlicensed raw milk farmers face jail for contaminated product

Chicago teen having very bad year

Tomatoes on the comeback

Dallas considers smoking ban

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June 18, 2008

Links for 6/18/08 AM

Why conservatives will win on global warming

How Alaska Airlines made air travel a little less hellish

Cigar smokers could quit, they just don’t want to

Tomato triage

Teach the controversy

Denial-of-coffee attack

What 400,000 bird balls look like

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June 17, 2008

Links for 6/17/08 AM

Will McCain defend the quote ‘Constitution?’

California opens to same-sex marriages

Obama, drop the arugula and light up

Employers want to crack down on smokers

Bendy bananas are A-OK

North Portland closed to cars on Sunday

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June 16, 2008

Links for 6/16/08 AM

Red Bull may be banned in France

Malthus vs. the Singularity

Discharges under don’t ask, don’t tell

The metaphor of beer

Ohio smoking ban not working out well

Bacon? Bourbon? What’s not to like?

Curse you, economics!

But how did cats evolve into LOLcats?

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