Happy Halloween
Hope yours was all that and more!
"Run by a gun zealot who's too blinded by the NRA" - Sam Penney of RaisingKaine.com
Aparantly, Randy Sander's is going to step down at the end of the season. His resignation anouncement is expected today.
Peter King, a gun banning bigot from New Jersey (I think he is just generally misinformed about the issue - like most in Jersey) who happens to write one of the better online professional football columns, hits it out of the park with his reaction to Sheryl Swoopes big announcement.
a. I would like to announce, drum roll please, that I'm a heterosexual male.
b. Which is to say, I don't understand the mania around athletes announcing their sexual preference. Do the vast majority of Americans care who Sheryl Swoopes sleeps with? That's assuming the vast majority of Americans even knows who she is. That's not a dig at Swoopes, just astonishment that we in the media put her coming-out announcement on the front pages of sports sections across the country. It's mind-boggling to me. I'd like to go back and see how many of those sports sections put stories from the WNBA championship series on the front page this season. We somehow think if an athlete is gay it's bigger news than the reason we're supposed to care about her -- her skill as a player, and what she does with that skill -- in the first place.
The hits keep coming in.
Hey, for what its worth - not that anyone is interested - but I've started another blog where I am blogging about fitness, hiking, and eventually telemark skiing (once the snow hits the ground) under another name.
Maybe this will be the new theme around here.
South Carolina - 16
Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer had never lost to South Carolina. The last Tennessee coach who did, Johnny Majors, was forced out of his job six days later in 1992.
Barstools And Dreamers
The barstools built for dreamers
We'll fit fine and find
All the worlds dreams have died
But tonight they're only taking thirsty people
Who've been pullin' on their drinks
From a glass that lies a bar length wide
And in the drink there swim the swimmers
And those whose swims have dried
Take another look, take another pull
Take another pour, take another pull
Before you take a ride
Heir to an open barstool, right there's one by "Mary the Fool"
Mary sees the bartender's knees
And she says that it's a bottle that she was born to be
And I say, "that's cool . . . just right, right for a fool."
Thinkin' whiskey, she bought me a drink
I won't cross a word of what the lady thinks
Pray I don't cross what the lady thinks
She's been thinking out too loud though
This time I can't hear the pinball machine
Well there's a birdman playing tiny little sideways bongos
Pulling all those words down, down, down
Look at how the numbers glow
In the glass there rolls the iron ball
And a quarter states the toll that's all (that's all)
You take another look, take another pull
Take another pour, take another pull
Before you take a chance
Look at your hands, they're just right for a new kinda dance
Just forget what your bodies just done
And ride all the waves that the drums rest on
Like the smallest babies do, ya' know the little newborn babies do
If there's some food that the moon feeds on
A baby won't hold it back, won't hold it back
Baby doesn't know what I just said
Baby doesn't know the words that I just used
Babies haven't learned any words yet
Babies haven't been used by any words yet
People only think, people only talk
People only think in words they already know
The babies haven't learned any words yet (no)
They only know what the people feel
They don't really care what the people think
They only care what the people feel
Music only knows what the people feel
Babies only care and hear what the people feel, feel
Kimbalina gets married and throws up one of the best photoblog posts I've ever had the pleasure of perusing.
Looks like, after all these years, they are still trying to figure out how to mitigate the harm from the Glen Canyon Dam.
Apparantly, George Takei is gay.
Don't ya just love auction fever.
The Met is having a retrospective on Fra Angelico's work. Looks like I will be there for it over Thanksgiving. I am very excited, plus, its Sarah Hempel approved (Congrats on the marriage!!)
Well,
"The Fifth Amendment," said O'Flaherty, 59, "is an absolute protection against requiring the defendant to say or do anything in the course of a trial. . . . The Fifth Amendment means the defendant can sit there, not say or do anything, and at the end of the case say, 'Can I go home now?' "
No other judge in Fairfax -- or elsewhere in Virginia, as far as can be determined -- has joined O'Flaherty. But the judge said some other jurists have told him they agree with him. "I had one judge tell me, 'I'd rule that way, but I don't have the guts to,' " O'Flaherty said. "I told him, 'You should be driving a truck.' "
As it does in all states and the District, Virginia's drunken driving law states that, for anyone with a .08 or higher reading on a breath test, "it shall be presumed that the accused was under the influence of alcohol intoxicants at the time of the alleged offense."
Prosecutors point out that Virginia's law creates a "rebuttable presumption," meaning the defendant has the opportunity to prove it wrong. But O'Flaherty said that wrongly shifts the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense.
O'Flaherty made it known in July that he felt Virginia's DWI law unfairly deprived defendants of the presumption of innocence if breath tests showed that they had a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher, levels at which people are presumed to be intoxicated.
Similarly, the judge said, "sometimes these tests are taken two hours after" an arrest, and there's no evidence of the blood alcohol content at the time of the traffic stop. O'Flaherty said one way to quickly obtain a blood alcohol reading would be to have a mobile van available with breathalyzer equipment, though he realized that would be costly.
"Criminal law shouldn't be built around saving a buck," O'Flaherty said. "We shouldn't convict people because it's cheaper and easier."
Deputy Donna Black of the Hernando County Florida Sheriff's Office.
When administrators asked the girl to dump out the contents of her bag, though, out came the knife - wrapped, the arrest report says, in a Sonny's Bar-B-Q napkin with tape around it.
Saw this on my drive in today (speaking of which, why did Ravnwood stop his daily commute reports)
Dick + Bush = Fucked
Says Uncle has been doing a pulitizer worthy job of highlighting the repression of adult fun in Knoxville. I guess I might as well pick up on the story down in Chattanooga where it looks like the immoral minority - complicit with the City Council - is once again out to ruin everyone's good time.
A business that sells adult movies and toys in Chattanooga remains open even after police officers say it has no license.
The owner of Boulevard Cinema, formerly Cinema One Adult Bookstore, was supposed to be in court on charges of operating an adult establishment without a license.
But the court hearing has been passed again.
Owner John Harden Junior's attorney says he needs more time to prepare for the case.
Despite the city's citation of no adult entertainment license, Boulevard Cinema stands open for business.
Wilma brought snow to western Virgina, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
The storm was worst in Garrett County, the westernmost county in Maryland, where the average elevation is 2,500 feet. A meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh said the county was covered by 8 to 12 inches of snow.
Tonight: Periods of snow, mainly before 3am. Low near 29. Northwest wind between 8 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
"we're skiing on 6 to 8 but tellum its 10 on the website" Ben Newstat
Heh!
"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a cheeseburger today"
The funding plan for the ICC, which the Maryland General Assembly endorsed during its 2005 session, includes a combination of creative funding sources
Sure, he'll go and make bajillions prentending to be James Bond, but the new guy who will never fill Sean Connery's shoes is apparantly a gun banning bigot too!
I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.
That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them.
Apparantly, that gun banning bigot, Michael Wallace, has been banned from reporting or referring new stories on gun control to 60 minutes or CBS News.
It always comes down to Howard Stern.
We actually had a problem with Alice’s people backstage. They tried to stop Mark “The Animal” Mendoza. We had a co-bill, in New York. And they tried to stop Mark from walking up a set of stairs backstage. You can’t walk up these stairs, this is Alice’s floor. To which Mark “The Animal” Mendoza responded, and this is the guy who came to our first re-union rehearsal with a gun. He said, I’m walking up the stairs, you do what you gotta do. (Dee laughing) And the guy looked at Mark, and Mark is big. And he’s gotten bigger. He’s a fucking bounty hunter. And the guy stepped aside and Mark walked up the stairs.
Capt. Merrill Stubbing, that is.
Love, exciting and new
Come aboard, we're expecting you
Love, life's sweetest reward
Let it flow, it floats back to you
Love Boat soon will be making another run
The Love Boat promises something for everyone
Set a course for adventure
Your mind on a new romance
And love won't hurt anymore
It's an open smile on a friendly shore
It's love
Welcome aboard
It's love!
For what its worth, I am neutral on the Miers nomination.
I am going to look at a Land Rover on Sunday, but I think I really want this Rock Crawlin ready Cherokee.
It passed the House today and will be signed by the President tomorrow (if not sooner). Thank Goodness.
What will you do with YOUR winnings
Fuck.
I've discussed why I think Tennessee ought to Fire Phil Fulmer before, but if they want to start and just Fire Randy Sanders, that would be acceptable to.
Why do we accept mediocrity? We always have been a mediocre basketball program, but football is what we do best in Knoxville. Unfortunately, for the past 6 years we look more like a team from Nashville than the Big Orange from K-Town. We are 6-11 against Top 10 teams since 1999. Fulmer’s record against Spurrier, Richt, Tuberville, Saban, and Urban Meyer is a mere 6 wins and 16 losses. Hello, there is a problem here. Do you clap your hands Phillip when you reflect on your record against other SEC coaches?
Randy, Randy, Randy. You are the Offensive Coordinator. You are in the line of fire. If the problem really is fat Phil, wouldn’t you simply put in a few new plays so you do not look like an idiot on most third downs? The excuse bucket is empty this season. The O-Line was as experienced and healthy as it has been in years. You have not one, but two quarterbacks to hand the ball off or throw a wide receiver screen on third and 9. This is not a rebuilding year; the Vols were ranked #3 in preseason.
Sanders must go. Of that, there is no doubt,
But Fat Phil's too scared to risk it.
All he really cares to think about,
Is where he might find his next biscuit.
About.com is one of my favorite internet sites. Chock full of all sorts of gunnie goodness - a rarity for a mainstream publication - I was surprised that I hadn't read this great article on the 1911 before.
ts basic mechanical design, based on John Browning’s original 1898 patent for a recoil-operated autoloader mechanism, has been the foundation or point of reference for virtually every other centerfire autoloading pistol subsequently produced by handgun manufacturers everywhere for the entire 20th century, and it is more widely copied and imitated than any other pistol ever made.
I usually don't blog about work, but this is an exception.
Not that I would ever ask my readers to either click on my google ads or pay attention to them, but I have noticed that in response to my most recent Chelsea Smiles post, lots of ads are showing up for punk rock stuff.
Amazing,
They have shown us that having a strong will, hard work, and putting in the time to train and obtain the skills will lead you to greater opportunities and help you win the fight.
Patrick Henry famously said "Give me liberty or give me death."
I've blogged about The Chelsea Smiles before.
An earful of their just-released EP (which includes two tunes from the upcoming LP due early next year) and it’s clear what they are about: ballistic beats, raging guitar-driven melodies and potent double-whammy vox; Black and Youth trade off both lead guitar and singing duties, a sonic approach that’s even more imposing live. They’ve been incessantly compared to the Ramones, but their sound is more like a cross between the Hellacopters, AC/DC and the New York Dolls: punk meets metal, with bits of gutter-glam grit. Simply put, catchy, ballsy rock & roll.
We’ve all heard the rock & roll savior speech from band guys before, but out of (Todd) Youth’s mouth, it sounds honest and even plausible. Thin, pale and covered in tattoos, he looks the part, sure, but that’s not what we’re buying. Despite the name, this N.Y.-bred rocker is no kid, and the Chelsea Smiles is probably his last shot at stardom - yet there’s not a drop of desperation (or insincerity) in his deep, nicotine-scorched tone. Of course, Hot Topic would be out of business if there weren’t already plenty of jet-headed teens with coal-smudged eyes and spiked belts out there. The thing is, these days those kids listen to My Chemical Romance or, worse, Ashlee Simpson. Virtually no one else is spewing the kind of exhilarating, Johnny Thunders-style rock & roll championed by the Chelsea Smiles. This loud and proud music really is a lifestyle for Youth and his gang of raven warriors, and you get the feeling that the only thing about the band that will change if they get famous is the size of their venues.
The New York Times has published another idiotic anti gun editorial, but this time with a twist. Instead of blindly trumpeting the lies of the gun banners, the Times has used some interesting wordsmithing to get its point across while still protecting its credibility.
This extraordinary shield, written to the diktat of the National Rifle Association, is so sweeping that it would have barred the D.C. sniper settlement and other valid negligence claims, according to legal experts stunned that any industry could ever win such blanket immunity.
God gives him a gift, the ability to rise above it all and earn more than his wildest dreams.
he girlfriend told officers that Hamlin placed his hand on another man's back and said, "Excuse me." The man told Hamlin to stop pushing, and the two men began shoving each other.
According to the report, Hamlin then punched the man in the face;
The club's owner, Larry Culp, said his security guards kept Hamlin separated from the two men outside for about 15 minutes as the bar was emptying at closing time. Culp said the guards tried to restrain Hamlin "five, six or eight times. The other guy started to back down, and as soon as the head of my security team turned his head, [Hamlin] went after him.
"He had plenty of chances to walk away from this incident," Culp said, adding Hamlin "went out of his way" to provoke a fight.
Look at this. Earlier today I complained that I was getting too many Norwegians and not enough Swedes. Today I see the percentage of visitors from Norway is down to 8% while Sweden pops up with 1% of my traffic. Cool!!!
The whore who brought you this:
They can beg and they can plead
But they can’t see the light, that’s right
’cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always mister right, ’cause we are
Living in a material world
And I am a material girl
The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion, that we think is real. We live for it, we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing . . .
[people] are going to go to hell, if they don't turn from their wicked behavior.
I refer to an entity called 'The Beast'. I feel I am describing the world that we live in right now. To me 'The Beast' is the modern world that we live in.
Pretty Cute!
George Washington You scored 85 Wisdom, 65 Tactics, 57 Guts, and 38 Ruthlessness! |
Washington first served as a British officer during the French and Indian War, a war which he inadvertently helped to start. Afterwards, he resigned his post to marry Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy widow with two children. He was elected to the House of Burgesses and became a revolutionary leader at the outset of the American Revolution, attending both the first and second Continental Congresses. Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83), leading the Americans to victory over the British, although sometimes in not the most scrupulous of ways. After the war, he served as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Because of his central role in the founding of the United States and enduring legacy, Washington is sometimes called the "Father of his Country." |
Link: The Which Historic General Are You Test written by dasnyds on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
Not only did they rip the other MBTA riders off, but I bet none of these Massholes reported the value of the free rides on their tax returns.
Yep, thats me. While 80% of my visitors are from right here in the good 'ol you es of eeh, the rest are coming in from all over the world.
Just in case you were wondering, even with the recent flurry of activity around here, I am still on sabbatical.
And to think, even the Old Dominion is falling to the witches of political correctness, though in this instance I don't think the intent was to remove the song.
On Oct. 2, The Potomac News & Manassas Journal Messenger published a letter to the editor arguing that while no one objected to that song about the devil, there would be objections if the band were to play a song about God or other spiritual beings.
After that letter ran in the paper, Brown dropped the song from the marching band's program.
The devil went down to Georgia
He was looking for a soul to steal
He was in a bind cause he was way behind
And he was willing to make a deal
When he came across this young man
Sawing on a fiddle and playing it hot
And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump
And said, "Boy" let me tell you what
I guess you didn't know it
But I'm a fiddle player too
And if you'd care to take a dare
I'll make a bet with you
Now you played pretty good fiddle,boy
But give the devil his due
I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul
Cause I think I'm better than you
The boy said "My name's Johnny
And it might be a sin
But I'll take you bet, your gonna regret
Cause I'm the best that's ever been"
Johnny rosin up your bow
And play your fiddle hard
Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia
And the devil deals the cards
And if you win
You get this shiny fiddle made of gold
But if you lose, the devil gets your soul
The devil opened up his case
And he said "I'll start this show"
And fire flew from his finger tips
As he rosined up his bow
And he pulled the bow across the strings
And it made a evil hiss
Then a band of demons joined in
And it sounded something like this
When the devil finished Johnny said
Well you're, pretty good old son
But sit down in that chair right there
And let me show you how it's done
Fire on the mountain run boys run
Devils in the house at the rising sun
chicken in the bread pan picking out dough
Granny does your dog bite no-child-no
The devil bowed his head
Because he knew that he'd been beat
And he laid that golden fiddle
On the ground at Johnny's feet
Johnny said "Devil just come on back
If you ever want to try again
I done told you once, you son of a bitch
I'm the best that's ever been" he played
Fire on the mountain run boys run
Devils in the house at the rising sun
chicken in the bread pan picking out dough
Granny will your dog bite no-Child-no
Ya know, few things smell better than a whiff of cordite in the morning. Check out the weekend's carnival before getting on with your day.
Hey all,
Seriously, are you surprised?
PETA employees Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, and Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.
A grand jury is expected to consider formal indictments Oct. 31, Assistant District Attorney Donnie Taylor said.
I've both bought and sold items (including cars) on Craigslist and in the newspaper classifieds. I've got to say the experience is infinitely more enjoyable (and cheaper, not that it matters) with Craigslist.
See this? This is sand. Sand! You live in a desert! Move to where the food is!
Seeing as
OK,
Om-pa-pa
oom-pa-pa
oom-pa-pa
oom-pa-paaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!
One More Obligatory Lyric.
Birthday
Words and Music: Lennon/McCartney
Recorded: September 18, 1968, Abbey Road Studios, London
Length: 2:43
Discography: The Beatles (The White Album)
You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party.
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Dance
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Dance
You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too--yeah
You say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
More interesting google links.
The Fourth of July is now officially a Sex Holiday!
J&J has found warming lubricants sell well not only for Valentine's Day but also around Memorial Day and Fourth of July. "We dubbed these sex holidays," Mr. Peterson said. "And we try to line up all our promotional efforts around them."
Cool!
CNN is running with the headline this morning that Senate Majority Leader Frist reportedly gets SEC subpoena .
Went to the Doctors the other day for my annual (well, its supposed to be) physical. All is fine, except he thinks I need to loose 25 pounds.
Interesting editorial in the NY Times on the booty bandits inhabiting our prisons. I'd go one better than the Times though, and sentence offending prison officials to be placed in the general population of the the prisons they were running if found guilty of the abhorrent behavior they routinely allow.
OK,
Since I am not blogging and am on sabbatical, I am not going to draft a post on Bush's Supreme Court nominee. Instead, I will use this post to collect the various comments I have posted on her elsewhere (to the extent I can remember them and then remember to place them here.)
n 1988 Al Gore was a much different beast than the Al Gore of the Clinton Gore years or the Al Gore of the Bush Gore season.
Instead of being a loony moonbat gun banner, Al was known as something of a firey conservative southern Democrat. He supported the war in Iraq - to the point that he had moonbats protesting at his Knoxville office rounded up and thrown in jail for a week (one of which was my neighbor) and was pretty good on the 2nd Amendment (as anyone who wanted to win the good ol boy vote was). Of course, this was before Columbine and before the party was snookered by the far left and led to believe gun control was the solution to winning national power.
In addition, in 1988 he was running against uber liberal Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary. Dukakis went FAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR left to secure victory while Gore took a more conservative approach, hoping to hold together the Dixiecrats and sneak out a win as the more "electable" cnadidate. It didn't work, and so it wasn't surprising to see him abandon that position 12 years later.
Still, my guess is most people would be pleased with Al Gore circa 1988.
As far as Todd's angry missive - as much as I like his writings, he is a law professor. Conservative or liberal, I think the Ivory Tower still holds itself up too high - regardless of what they think, their SHIT stinks too.
All the reasons Todd lists to be concerned about her seem like the petty bickering of a law professor with a very limited and narrow view of the world around them - heck, these are the same people (Todd isn't, he was rightly outraged, but I am speaking about law professors generally) who didn't understand why Kelo was so outrageous - not based on property rights but based on the fact that the court had been moving in that direction for years.
I think the fact that she has been in the real world applying the law - and NOT in the Ivory Tower thinking about weird hypotheticals and worrying about making sure everyone is happy - is one of the most refreshing aspects of her nomination.
Now, I still don't know if I like her or not, but I think most of the blogsphere's reaction is simply another example of the blogsphere jumping the shark.
If you actually follow the WND link you see that she pretty much had nothing to do with the International Court Recommendation. Sure, the ABA recommended it, but there are millions of lawyers in the ABA. She wasn't listed as the contact - or the supporter of it - she was simply an active ABA member at a time when a committee of the ABA recommended the court.
Orin Kerr of the Volokh Conspiracy posted a link to a magazine article from 1996 discussing how impressive her career had been up to that point. I thought it really cast Ms. Miers in an especially positive light and made her seem much more human than the average Sup. Court justice.Hmmm,
Looks pretty good and I dare say she sounds better and better each day - certainly sounds like someone I'd like on the court a whole lot more than a law professor who has spent their entire career in the Ivory Tower thinking about hypotheticals and logical traps but wholly losing sight of the very personal, day to day, impact the law has on people (or corporations who are simply fictional people).
FWIW - the more I hear law professors (and Anne Coulter) complain that she isn't qualified for the court, the more I think she is.
Prof. Kerr has asked me to follow up on why I think professors lose sight of the the day to day impact law has on people. I am drafting that response now, and will post it tomorrow sometime.
What's his problem?
Mr. Kilgore will not be seeking the group's endorsement, campaign spokesman Tucker Martin said.
"While we have great respect for the members of the VCDL, their President Phillip Van Cleave unfortunately has no credibility on Second Amendment issues and that is why we did not participate," Mr. Martin said, declining to elaborate.
House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith, Salem Republican, also was confused by the comment and called Mr. Van Cleave "credible."
"I like Phillip," he said. "He's a sincere and knowledgeable individual when it comes to protecting gun rights."
- Kilgore has never received the survey (but it was handed to him personally, sent certified mail, and emailed to him).
- There was one question that Kilgore didn't want to take a position on and that was why he declined to answer any of the questions.
- The survey was on Kilgore's desk awaiting his signature.
- Philip Van Cleave is too hard to work with.
- The NRA survey and the VCDL survey are the same and they didn't see why both needed to be answered. (I have seen the NRA survey and it is nothing like the VCDL survey.)
- Philip Van Cleave is antagonistic because he said the Kilgore campaign is following the Earley playbook.
And now:- Philip Van Cleave has no credibility on Second Amendment issues
The emails on which I have been cc'ed from gun owners across the state run the gamut from *pleading* with Mr. Kilgore to answer the VCDL survey and take a stand on gun rights, to furious gun owners saying that they have removed Kilgore campaign signs from their lawns and offices and Kilgore bumper stickers from their vehicles.
Here's hoping another opening happens soon.
What can you tell me about the following Supreme Court nomination votes?
Who would have believed it.
Only she knows the true terror of the heart that comes from holding a 7-millimeter rifle while bushwacking down steep trails made by potentially ferocious marauding wild pigs and having your husband turn to you to say, "I think I hear something."
"Hunters are part of the problem because they sometimes intentionally disperse pigs," said Reginald H. Barrett, a professor of wildlife management at the University of California, Berkeley. "But they are also part of the solution because legal sport hunting literally is the only thing keeping pigs under control."
Angelo Garro, a Sicilian-born wrought-iron artist and forager who is revered by San Francisco foodies as a cook and bon vivant, waits to hunt in fall, when the pigs binge on acorns. He describes the meat, which he roasts on a spit with wild fennel, rosemary, red peppercorn and olive oil, as sweet and slightly gamey. "You don't do it to kill," he said. "You do it to have an experience in the outdoors. Then you share what you've got with family and friends, an incredible sensuous meal like you sometimes see in Italian movies."
Days later, Mrs. Straub was back in her cubicle at work, still zonked from scurrying up and down pig trails, relishing the freedom she'd felt, so different from typing budget reports. Her sense of triumph persisted and her pork politics remained clear. "I don't believe in killing animals for recreation," she said. "But if you use them as game, that's what the cycle of life is all about."