This one comes direct from the WTF?! Department:

As a member of the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, and as a session guitarist for Carly Simon, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr and many others, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter has been a clandestine rock and roll hero since the '70s. Now, as a specialist interrorism, missile defense and chemical and biological warfare, he's also a covert hero for the U.S. military...

"Rest in peace, brave and insane soldier. We will carry on your work. We will aspire to your greatness. You cut a swath through a jungle of inequity. We follow behind, cursing the gnats.

Goddamn, these suckers're big."

Well fucking put.

Was lying in bed this morning, slowly waking up to NPR, and heard the news of Hunter Thompson's death. He obviously felt it was time to go, but I'm still very sad that he's no longer on the planet. I'll miss that experience of every now and then reading a new article of his that burned as brightly as all of his earlier work.

Buy the ticket, take the ride. Mahalo.

Well, I'm back. I'm not talking politics, I'm posting recommendations for mail-order fancy steaks. This is as much for my own reference as for anyone else's, I suppose.

Peter Luger

McGonigle's - I know it's not spelled the same, but I still can't help but picture the Transfigurations teacher from Harry Potter running a butcher's shop

Niman Ranch

Mmmm, steak.