Saturday we spent the day on a chartered bus tour of four of the Texas Hill Country’s wineries, and it couldn’t have been a better day for it despite starting off at the ungodly hour of 3:30 am (not the bus tour itself ; I’ll explain that later). Crisp, cool weather, bright sun, and a deep blue sky. We visited Woodrose, Grape Creek, Becker, and Torre di Pietra, in that order. What a way to spend a Read more…
I finished Zoe’s Tale a few weeks ago, and really liked it. John Scalzi got the character of a teenage girl right, even if there were a few points where it was like he was channeling Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody. But even the smartassery wasn’t that bad and Zoe and her friends were engaging and sympathetic, their actions and reactions realistic. The story itself was reminiscent of Heinlein at his best. Scalzi nailed it. The Read more…
Let’s just make one thing clear: under John McCain’s health care plan, you can kiss your health care insurance coverage good-bye. As soon as employers can discontinue providing health care benefits they will. As soon as people have to go buy health care on their own, insurance companies will cherry pick the healthy and leave the rest of us to founder. If you have any health issues, you won’t get health care, or it will Read more…