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I realized our glasses are too narrow (and don’t hold enough) for a proper float, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to do. Then, I spied my NRA giant travel mug, and it was perfect. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the NRA Life Member Root Beer Float:

That was before I ate it […]

“That was fast!” you say, and it was. I went to Sheetz. Half the distance of Wegman’s (okay, so neither is far), and no lines, no waiting.
Now it’s time to make that float . . .

Today is National Ice Cream Soda Day, and to celebrate, I’m off to the store to buy some ice cream and root beer.

I figure this is worth at least one naked protest with giant puppets: Vietnam vet kills bobcat with his bare hands.

This week’s Carnival of Education is up, and I stopped on this article by the Science Goddess:
I was amazed when I moved here and discovered that the high school had an espresso cart. Kids bought and sold coffee, for crying out loud—something you would never have seen in the southwest US.
First, kudos to the kids […]

Identifying the uninsured (and unlike Mike Al-Moor, all the data sources are cited and linked). My particular favorite of the interviewees is Faye Chao:
Faye Chao (Uninsured 26-year-old):
My rent currently is $475 plus utilities. In total, my cost comes out to about $530 a month.
Stuart Browning:
What’s your average monthly income?
Faye Chao:
On average my monthly income […]

I was looking at the most recent Rasmussen poll results on the GOP candidates, and noticed something I found (at least at first) a bit unexpected. Here are the results:

Election Polls 2008: Republican Presidential Primary Contenders

Date

Thompson

Giuliani

Romney

McCain

19-Jun
28%
27%
10%
10%

12-Jun
24%
24%
11%
11%

5-Jun
17%
23%
15%
14%

29-May
12%
25%
16%
15%

22-May
14%
26%
15%
18%

15-May
15%
25%
12%
18%

8-May
16%
25%
12%
17%

1-May
14%
30%
11%
14%

24-Apr
12%
28%
10%
15%

17-Apr
13%
33%
12%
19%

10-Apr
14%
27%
12%
16%

3-Apr
14%
26%
8%
16%

27-Mar

35%
8%
15%

20-Mar

33%
10%
15%

13-Mar

37%
10%
16%

6-Mar

34%
9%
19%

27-Feb

33%
10%
17%

20-Feb

33%
8%
19%

14-Feb

32%
8%
18%

6-Feb

27%
9%
19%

29-Jan

29%
8%
19%

23-Jan

30%
10%
22%

18-Jan

28%
8%
20%

Thompson was added to the Rasmussen poll on 3 April. Look at the numbers for the other three candidates for […]

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