Last night I poured myself a big frosty mug of LECH. I couldn’t resist buying this the other day. (So maybe the name is actually a stroke of marketing genius.) It tasted just fine.
Tag: misc
If I were still a cop…
…I’d have twelve years on today, with eight to go.
We are the addicts
Thomas Friedman in the Times: Saudi donors today still constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide — not to mention the fundamentalist mosques, charities and schools that spawn the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So basically our oil payments are cycled through Saudi Arabia and end up funding the very militants whom our soldiers are…
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Moskos on Moskos. The old man would have loved this one!
How we roll…
I know it’s not in the spirit of Thanskgiving to brag, but I’ll be damned if five hours later this bird wasn’t deee-licious. And besides, “it ain’t bragging if it’s true.”
Veterans Day
Thank you, veterans. You all have chosen to do something I am not willing to do. That doesn’t reflect well on me. (Though I do wish we had fewer wars and fewer veterans.)
Never Happened to Me
Carolee Bildsten, 56, of the 5300 block of David Court, allegedly assaulted the officer on Tuesday evening with what Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick called “a rigid feminine pleasure device.” So says the the Trib. [Thanks to Hephestos, my Koumbaros.]
Lawsuits against Chicago police down 50%
Because the Chicago Police Department isn’t providing cash payments to settle out of court. Once that incentive goes away…
COPS & Opera
From my favorite comic strip, Stephan Patsis’s Pearls before Swine:
“Excuse me, sir, do you know where I can find…
…Oh, never mind. I see it now. G2. Thanks anyway.” It’s a sign from Athens send by the woman who runs this great bike tour company in Greece. The weird part is that for the life of me I can’t figure out what it’s supposed to be (and I speak Greek!). [Update: I think I figured it out. It’s supposed…