Sunday 20th [July] 1862 I wish I was one of the women of Richmond. They have made for themselves a name that will be handed down with praise and honour for many generations. During the battles that were fought around Richmond, in which the…
For now at least.
N.Y. Times:
…a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name. The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly […]
Clipper City Brewing representative Thomas Cizauskas will be in Fredericksburg to host a tasting on Thursday, July 3 at Total Wine. He will be pouring samples of Loose Cannon Hop3 Ale, Small Craft Warning Über Pils, and Red Sky at Night Saison Ale fro…
It took a lot longer than I realized it would to select, edit, and post these pictures. I had a hard time choosing the ones I wanted from the several dozen snapshots I took during yesterday’s chase of a shelf cloud near sunset. The coloration was awe…
From one of his weekly update things:
The full House Armed Services Committee also received a top secret briefing on Iran. As many of you know, Iran is continuing to pursue nuclear development in the face of global opposition and is also engaged in activities to destabilize the Middle East. While the specifics of […]
I got back last night from a great 4-day getaway with a group of girlfriends to North Topsail Beach, NC, where we shared a duplex a short walk from the beach. This was our third trip to the beach together, and it was a terrific, relaxing, laugh-filled …
Ubuntu Linux Resources
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A VC: The Post American World
Interesting book review of an interesting sounding book
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Enable Commercial DVD Playback on Ubuntu 8.04 : Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper – Feisty – Gutsy – Hardy
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Donations keep many organizations running around the area. The FLS reported earlier this week that the United Way had distributed 1.5M of 3M they have raised through local events. But many of these agencies also rely on city funding for some portion of…
I’ve decided to use the blog to occasionally highlight certain wines that I think deserve far more attention than they get. Wines such as Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and so on make the vast majority of wine sales in America, but as a proportion of the types of wines made these are a small minority. Some wines aren’t popular because they don’t deserve to be, but there are a few out there that are really hidden gems. My pick for this week is Gruner Veltliner, a grape native to Austria that is used to make white wines. Nearly all Gruner Veltliner you will see in the U.S. will be made in Austria. There are two ways to make it: in a low yield style which produces a full, lush wine, or high yield which produces a much lighter, crisper wine. The latter is less expensive, and is actually one of Gruner Veltliner’s most attractive characteristics – it’s a heck of a deal. Inexpensive Gruner Veltliner is almost always dry (ie, not sweet), with a crisp citrus flavor, perhaps a bit of peach, and its characteristic white pepper flavor. It’s this last bit that gives Gruner its reputation as a great wine to have with food, especially fish.
Oh, and I should add that one of the wines in this month’s 6 for $60 (theme: staff picks) is a Gruner Veltliner. It’s called Hugl Weine.
Here’s a great first-hand account of local Democrats in the Culpeper & Rappahannock area uniting for change:
And then, one by one, several people in the audience raised their hands and told their stories.
There was the woman with a daughter who worried about the composition of the Supreme Court. Applause. There was the 10-year-old redheaded boy […]
