But It Tastes Good, Right? |
I’ve been a meat eater most of my life.In fact, for a long time, I’d eat just about any kind of meat. Hot dogs. Hamburgers. Vienna sausages. Steak-Umm. Spam. I wasn’t picky.Then, for...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST |
While were on the subject of sex scandals& |
If the Eliot Spitzer case was a neat, surgical decapitation, there’s another scandal going on that’s more like death by a thousand cuts. Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been trudging th...
Posted by Patrick on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:14:00 PST |
They Wanted Him, And They Got Him |
Things fell apart in breathtaking fashion for Eliot Spitzer this week.OK. The New York Governor shouldn’t have run around with high-priced prostitutes. Or any prostitutes. Personally, I think pr...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:59:00 PST |
Stop! |
Nobody is gonna like this:
"Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists,...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:21:00 PST |
Swim With The& Sting Rays? |
How about this story? One time I was in Belize, on one of the barrier islands, with my wife. There's this reef out there, the second largest in the world (after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia). A...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:19:00 PST |
Going Diving |
I'm somebody who likes to keep his money in his pocket.In recent months, I've started doing that in a new (for me) way. A friend of mine has welcomed me into a loose network of young people who go out...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:44:00 PST |
Fun with Margaret Seltzer |
By now, many people are aware of Margaret Seltzer's memoir, Love and Consequences, the true story of how she grew up as a white gangbanger in South Central Los Angeles. The story, written under the pe...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:43:00 PST |
Police State Fun |
Some very expensive homes were burned in a Seattle suburb on Monday. Three of the houses, each for sale at over $1 million, were destroyed. The interesting thing about this arson, at least as far as...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:28:00 PST |
Strap Your Helmet On |
OK, so I haven't looked at this blog in eight months (fyi - I'm referring to my blog at http://patrick-quinlan.blogspot.com/, where, if you're remotely interested, you can look at a bunch of...
Posted by Patrick on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:37:00 PST |
PPL Appearance Postponed |
Due to the predicted nasty weather coming tomorrow my appearance at the Portland Public Library has been postponed until Wednesday, March 19. Same time same place. See you then!...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:49:00 PST |
