Uneasy Rhetoric

Reading the book about Grant’s beer (see previous post) got me to thinking a bit about beer. I like a variety of beers, but I’ve never really been able to describe what I like about various beers; often I find that I am inconsistent.
For example, over the last four to six months, I have [...]

It was too hot to do much of anything outside today, so I sat inside and read a book about beer. The title says it all: The Ale Master: How I Pioneered America’s Craft Brewing Industry, Opened the First Brewpub, Bucked Trends, and Enjoyed Every Minute of It by Bert Grant with Robert Spector.
Bert [...]

Wouldn’t that be a great name for a club? An article in today’s Bee suggests that the old PG&E generating plant, between Old Sacramento and the Jibboom Street area, might be turned into something more useful, like a museum or a nightclub.
A museum would make some sense and there would be precedent. The [...]

Scotty was always my favorite character on Star Trek. Once upon a time I used to have this vision of myself as a kind of Mr. Scott - nerdy, more comfortable working than anything else, something of a social misfit.
Turns out I was romanticizing myself. Scotty was a specialist, I specialize in nothing. [...]

It has been said a thousand times already, and I know it’s too much for us to assume that any political rhetoric would be consistent, but will somebody please tell me how the Right is getting away with calling judges they don’t like “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench” while at the same time [...]