Gun nuts are basking in a tremendous victory, apparently: Starbucks isn’t banning guns.
Dale Welch recently walked into a Starbucks in Virginia, handgun strapped to his waist, and ordered a banana Frappuccino with a cinnamon bun. He says the firearm drew a double-take from at least one customer, but not a peep from the baristas.
Well, good for you, Dale. Any guy who drinks banana Frappuccinos obviously needs to carry a gun to compensate for something. I think it shows a great deal of courage on Starbucks’ part, though. If I was charging $4 for a cup of shitty coffee, I sure as hell wouldn’t want gun-toting customers.
There’s yet another reason to like Jimmy Carter. Dubya says Jimmy made his life miserable by having the guts to speak up and tell the truth. Aw, poor Dubya. If it’s any consolation, George, you made a helluva lot of people’s lives miserable yourself.
A pretty good hockey game for the gold medal yesterday (not that I watched it. I was trying to get all my weekend chores done while wandering around in a bit of a stupor). But it sounds like it was a good game, and the Canadian NHL all-star team beat the USA NHL all-star team. I kinda liked the Olympics better when it used to be amateur college kids playing (even though the evil commie countries always seemed to have an advantage). Oh well, time marches on.
I have to admit, I didn’t watch any of the games this year. There’s just something about an Olympics that isn’t during a leap year that doesn’t feel right. Hats off to the Canadians, though, who won a boatload (a record, I think I heard) of gold medals. Of course, if you look at the medal “standings” on an US media site, you’ll see the USA is #1, because they add in the silver and bronze medals.
Excuse me, but coming in second and/or third just means you lost, and since when are Americans proud of losing? Just goes to show what 8 years of Bush will do to you.
Oh well, time to head off to work and wait for the new hoops rankings to come out. Rumor has it there may be some movement at the top.
This is one of those long days that includes a boring and unnecessary conference at which the crossword puzzle is my only salvation. Ugh!
I take it PJ, that curling didn’t excite you. I know nothing about curling (or most sports for that matter) but I remember it from Help, the Beattles’ film. They used real brooms and I think the curling stones smoked or something.
Actually, I used to watch curling on the teevee when I was a kid, from the Kingston TV station, which you could get to come in pretty good if you were a master manipulator of the old rabbit ears. Which, of course, I was.
I used to watch all of the Olympics when it was a blown up version of The Wide World of Sports on ABC. I think it was much better then but since I don’t get NBC I wouldn’t know. Seems they ran all events real time.
The Help! scene was a bomb attempt on Ringo.
Thanks, Vern. So, the fiendish thing was the smoking curling stone. Never having seen curling before, or since, until this year’s Olympics, I never understood what they were doing with those brooms.
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So, I guess Harold Ford is smarter than he seems.
Thud!
Zuckerman next?
While the political establishment was riveted by Tennessee Harold’s potential run, the rest of us were enjoying a good laugh.
Bummed on the news that Vernon thoughtfully passed along concerning T-Bone Wolk.
His monthly gig with Daryl Hall is/was the only “TV Show” I watched with punctual regularity. Everything else is really truly crap. I can’t see the show going on much longer w/o the musical director. T-Bone was the music historian, jokester, and played the most incredible acoustic guitar and contributed the perfect vocal harmonies.
RIP