Come Rain or Shine?
Monday, July 5th, 2010When did the evening TV weather report become a full-blown production adopting a style more suitable for a National Geographic feature? And, when did the TV weather people start treating me like an idiot. Do you notice how they usually start their evening telecast with a commentary on that day’s weather? Like..”well today was a beautiful day…sunny and warm…” I know what the weather was today! I don’t live in a submarine. I want to know what it’s going to be tomorrow! And I want to know what it’s going to be here…not in Casper, Wyoming or Sioux Falls, Idaho or where ever. And if it’s going to be hot tomorrow, I don’t need to know why…high pressure area over Coos Bay? Air masses? Station pressures?? I don’t care. Just tell me how hot it will be and is it going to rain?? Period.
(read more on this at www.wrysandwherefores.com)

s. Robert Kennedy Jr. was apparently unable to raise bail, and Patrick Kennedy was arrested for driving his car up the Museum of Fine Arts steps at 3 in the morning. He claimed he was there to see the Kennedy brothers portrait.
My wife and I always enjoy a few glasses of wine with dinner and the other night had a particularly lovely 2008 fish bladder with our lamb chops. It was slightly more expensive than usual because it was not just any fish bladder, but sturgeon bladder which has less of a hint of salt water to it. Not everyone, of course, favors fish bladder;some of our friends, for example, prefer a hint of egg white in their Pinot Noir while others prefer the smooth taste of milk byproducts in their Merlots. These are just a few of the items that vintners might add to their grape concoctions.