Jacob Grier: Coffee, Cocktails, Commentary & Conjuring

Jacob Grier

Coffee, Cocktails, Commentary, and Conjuring

August 7, 2008

Links for 8/7/08 AM

Charlie Lynch railroaded by the Feds

Weston A. Price in The Post

Clive Crook visits a gun show

Miscanthus as biofuel

How to write a recipe

Athletes who smoke

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August 6, 2008

Links for 8/6/08 AM

Well done, Radley Balko

A lucky journalist friend of mine got to experience this flight

Nation tuned in to missing foot mystery

Conservationists discover Gorilla City

The murky history of the egg cream

Ted Stevens’ Bruce Banner complex

Why Midori?

I regret missing this opening

Good news for NC: 3 Cups will return soon

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August 4, 2008

Links for 8/4/08 AM

Beware of fake universes

Virgin unveils White Knight Two

What if you owned your internet connection?

Barney Frank introduces legislation to decriminalize marijuana

State of the Web, summer of ‘08

Ogopogo is Canada’s Nessie

Freudian dance logo

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August 1, 2008

Links for 8/1/08 AM

How to laugh at Obama

Terrorize innocent family, win an award

IRS stuck in the 1980s on cell phones

Mud Puddle books in the NYT

You know why dog’s milk last the longest? Because nobody drinks it

Paul’s MxMo round-up is posted

“Forever to Tell”

Miracle fruit comes to Houston

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July 29, 2008

Links for 7/29/08 AM

Michael Tanner on the candidates’ health plans

Questions for Obama

As goes Belgium, so goes the EU

Scholars show up at Comic-Con

Seattle bag tax passes

Starbucks closing lots of stores in AU

Loma Linda’s draconian, hypocritical smoking ban

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July 28, 2008

Links for 7/28/08 AM

CA bans trans fats

From anti-smoking to anti-smoker

Al Gore’s modest proposal

Bad reporting on gender differences study

Brooklyn Brewery’s development gamble

Cigar in a bottle

No tears over Bud buyout

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July 25, 2008

Links for 7/25/08 AM

New Orleans dining makes a comeback

Take the anti-servitude pledge!

Digging into the ASH poll citation

Meet the Fun-O-Meter

An imposing new yacht

Harford on bargains that aren’t

Mixed opinions on the margarita

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July 24, 2008

Links for 7/24/08 AM

Raul Castro taking baby steps towards China model

Afghanistan as tourist destination

Gates determined to make me a Mac man

Novak’s hard-hitting journalism

Anchoring and calorie counts

Withdrawal horizon

R2D2 soy sauce dispenser

Vid: Acrobatic trap-jaw ants

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July 23, 2008

Links for 7/23/08 AM

The TTB’s liquor label censorship

Seattle may soon tax grocery bags

A brief history of jokes

Psychological experiments if there were no review boards

A different perspective on saturated fats

Wardrobe malfunction fine overturned

Critique of the new iPhone

Cake wrecks blog; microwave cake wreck

Vid: Feist cameos on Sesame Street

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July 22, 2008

Links for 7/22/08 AM

Bob Levy on what’s next for the Second Amendment

Obama punishes the press

GM wheat releases fewer calories

Did underwater volcanoes trigger mass extinction?

Free trade to produce food surpluses

Funeral for the Appletini

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July 21, 2008

Links for 7/21/08 AM

Chait shreds The Shock Doctrine

Obama’s old fashioned ideas about education

A photographic history of the Joker

Leopard vs. crocodile

Great idea for a research dictionary

The LA Times discovers miracle fruit

Invisible tractor

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July 18, 2008

Links for 7/18/08

Criminal justice so far ignored on trail

I’m with Megan on this one

Wiretaps we can believe in

Obama needs to learn to take a tease

Haven’t watched it yet, but the Watchmen trailer is online

Starbucks releases full store closing list

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July 17, 2008

Links for 7/17/08 AM

Iced EspressoGate makes the leap from blogs to The Washington Post

A list of barista lingo

iPhone app store brings a measure of openness

One way to boost train ridership

Rogier saves someone a lot of time

Black Canary Barbie causing controversy (It’s a good thing they didn’t choose Power Girl)

Cetaceans are the homewreckers of the ocean

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July 16, 2008

Links for 7/16/08 AM

An American burger in Paris

Jamie Oliver hits a new low

Logician’s pickup line

Subway stripper challenges Chile’s mores

The art of the introduction

Study on how flirtation affects relationships

Smoking ban bites Omaha budget

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July 15, 2008

Links for 7/15/08 AM

End the mortgage duopoly

DC proposes new gun rules

Nothing wrong with bikers violating some traffic laws

How to be Batman

Seattle coffee tour launches, misses some of the best shops

Radley taste’s the new hopsicles

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July 14, 2008

Links for 7/14/08 AM

Why the world needs more speculators

Zimbabwe banknote supply cut off

Linda Greenhouse retires from the NYT

First wave of Starbucks closings begins

Mandated maternity leave bad for women

Suderman lives my fear

Vid: Struck by lightning while holding camera

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July 11, 2008

Links for 7/11/08 AM

InBev deal may go through

Wall-E prejudiced against the obese

Why Americans love bacon

Is it worth wearing a bike helmet?

Dentists versus dentistry

Skyline Chili is always a win

Vid: Furry fails

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