We’ve all been there, and have probably been guilty at times. Sometimes it’s hard for serious craft beer fans to not get a bit carried away with sharing their knowledge or opinions. The July Merchant du Vin newsletter includes a list of excellent tips …

WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
The back story on Wargames.
(tags: 80s computers culture movies)

It was a really bad day for syndicated columnist Bob “Prince of Darkness” Novak.  While driving his black Corvette on K Street in DC, he clipped a pedestrian. 
In the words of Little Richard:  “LOOK OUT!”
Novak was caught completely unawares.  A bicyclist stopped the DC political pundit, alerting him to what had happened. 
Pick up the truly remarkable raw feed from WJLA-TV here:

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UPDATE:  Not a peep out of Bruce from W’Burg.  Not yet.
Folks, I just cannot take it anymore. 
The fact that we find ourselves in the mess that we’re in – here in Virginia’s First Congressional District – is just unbearable.
The current nominee for Congress, Keith Hummel, is (among other things) saying that he’d step aside – withdraw […]

Given that (a) I’m home a bit earlier than normal today and (b) I am awaiting convection to fire in today’s ripening conditions I thought I would complete the post regarding yesterday’s chase over three counties. My son and I left for Culpeper at 4:45…

InTheBurg.info is branching out to touch other realms of life other than city news and politics. It is with great pleasure that today I’m announcing the grand opening of DadReview.com. Visit http://www.dadreview.com/ to see a newly expecting father’s …

Black Velvet Bruce Li brings our attention to another victim of our porous border, and then makes a very interesting point:
As of July 1st, a new law requires that all jails in Virginia start checking the immigration status of all persons they detain.  How many localities are actually complying with this law isn’t known, but no […]

According to the Free Lace-Black Hole, Supervisor Emmitt Marshall (his district is next to mine) tried to intervene in an animal cruelty case involving the dogs of a son’s friend.  Now, before everyone goes beating up Marshall (who is one of the four tax-hikers on the Spotsy BOS), let’s not forget that this is the Free […]

Thanksgiving Day, September 18, 1862For more on why this day was called Thanksgiving Day, see Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations.[A newspaper clipping has been pasted in the diary here but is unreadable in the copy the transcriber is working from….

Hi Everybody,

We’re back at the pub this
weekend with our pal Henry Hubbard.

Hope you can come!

Laurie and Peter

www.laurieandpeter.com

Saturday, July 26, 9:30 -1:00
The Blarney Stone Public House
715 Caroline St.
Fredericksburg, VA, …