Ahhhh… the million dollar question. It will cost us a million dollars to come close to a precise answer and I could make a million dollars by selling the secret to forcing banks to approve short sales in a timely manner. But let’s see if I can give you a bit of an answer for this question that […]
Hello Everyone! I took a little break from posting, but I’m back and excited about the New Year! I am especially excited about all of the pet adoptions that took place over the holidays. I hope that each new pet brings joy and laughter to your homes!
Let’s see who’s up for adoption this week at […]
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Samuel Wurzelbacher is probably better known as “Joe the Plumber”.
He’s the same guy that said that people who disagreed with him should be shoot and that reporters should be prohibited from publishing news about wars.
I wonder if Verga includes those positions on his plank.
Maybe someone should tell Wurzelbacher his fifteen minutes of fame ended over […]
If you are charged with speeding in a school zone (or reckless driving by speed in a school zone), you should definitely talk with an attorney. The posted speed limit may be illegal. If the speed limit is not correct, your case may be dismissed completely!
Virginia law sets the speed limit for all highways at […]
Virginia is finally beginning to update the technology used in the criminal justice system.
It’s about time.
As the Free Lance-Star reports, the city of Fredericksburg is now the first locality in Virginia to have computerized tickets in police cruisers. The technology is pretty cool!
Currently, if you’re stopped in Virginia, the police write out a carbon paper […]
So says Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s blog.
It’ll be interesting to see who gets a selection from the General Assembly this year or ends up getting a temporary appointment in the mean term.
As a film fan, I am curious about the love/hate relationship between originals and remakes. Not many remakes reside in my memory banks but of the ones that do, the original usually proves best. The rule of thumb held true when the postman delivered my copy of Brode, the Danish original to the Jim Sheridan’s […]
I wanted to share a thought about imported wine that’s been bothering me lately. I have had many people remark to me that during their trip to Italy/France/Spain that “all the wine we had was good!” Often they will emphasize that even the inexpensive house wine at the restaurants was good wine. The implication (and in some cases people have stated outright) is that the imported wine here in the U.S. is not as good as what the people in these other countries drink themselves.
For imported wine you get at any grocery store or chain restaurant, this is probably right. That stuff is just mass-marketed stuff intended for export. Otherwise this notion is false. In fact the truth is quite the opposite. Importers who take their craft seriously seek out the very best wine to import in the U.S. and leave the rest behind. For good restaurants and specialty wine shops, the imported wine is probably on average superior to what’s found in these countries as a whole.
Also, I suspect that a lot of this wine that is reported as great wouldn’t be as great in other contexts. I’ve written before that a big part of wine is the experience. If you are on vacation in Florence in a nice cafe, you are going to expect the wine to be good, and lo and behold it is. In a random wine tasting you do not know what to expect and your judgment is probably more accurate.
For example, if you’ve ever been to Paris and eaten at the numerous Bistros you probably had some of their house red and thought it was great. What you were drinking was likely Beaujolais wine. Well, I can tell you from experience that I love Beaujolais wine but it is a very hard sell here in the U.S. Americans tend to prefer fuller bodied reds. But I bet in that Parisian Bistro that light bodied red tasted great.
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