*sigh* - that we even still need to do stuff like this...

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Join the Poker Players Alliance:

Join the Poker Players Alliance

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Posted on: January 29, 2007 9:52 AM, by Ed Brayton

The Poker Players Alliance is the largest group looking out for the interests of poker players and defending the rights of all adults to play games with other adults, something that should none of the government's business. They have now begun to offer free memberships, which should help them boost membership immensely. That, in turn, will help their lobbyists when they're meeting with legislators to get taken seriously. When they meet with a Congressman, the more members they have in that person's district, the more likely they are to listen. So please, I urge all of my readers to join, even if you don't play poker. If you just support the idea that consenting adults should be able to play poker, in a brick and mortar casino or over the internet - and frankly, if you're reading my blog and you don't believe that, you're in the wrong place - then we need your voice to help protect the liberty of all Americans. Please click here and add your voice to ours.

revisionist history in radio?

In neither the DC101 nor the Howard Stern pages on Wikipedia does it actually mention the joke that actually got him fired.  Stern's page doesn't mention his firing at all, and DC101's just says "disagreement with management", as it was fictionalized in Stern's movie and book (apparently, the authors used Stern's movie as an accurate history, which it isn't.).

The Air Florida Flight 90 page does mention Stern's joke, but not that it's what got him fired (which I agree with - it's not relevant there).

Update - sorry, meant to mention this was specifically looking up the references on Wikipedia, not the official websites of anything mentioned here.  'Cause yeah, it's not like the official pages would mention anything about that incident if they could avoid it.

Eat it, just eat it. woo!

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times:

Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.

anybody else go through this?

If I'm listening to a classical music cd (or certainly an audiobook) in the car, and I stop the car in the middle of it because I reach my destination, I'll just leave it going where it left off when I'm back restarting the car after my errand.

However, if I'm listening to pop/rock music (either cd or mp3), I'm likely to want to skip any unfinished song as soon as I restart the car.

I'm guessing it has to do with associating pop/rock music with listening to the radio.  With radio, you don't expect the song to still be playing when you get back (and you're likely to have sung the earworm out of your head during that time anyways).  But I'm just wondering if I'm the only one.

Update: Ok, its just me and I'm weird.

i gave it time, but it didn't help.

i've not had a "wheat" beer in almost a decade, having tried them in the 90s and not really caring for it.

Well, i got a case of a variety of stuff from flying dog (at costco), and finally gave the wheat a try.

and i still don't like it.

so now i have 3 of these things to get rid of.  go fig.