I recently ran a Corner Booth item about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin giving an all-but-incomprehensible spontaneous speech about the evil news media. I made the usual Moosehunt Barbie jokes because that’s easy, lazy humor, and I’m nothing if not lazy.
I headlined the item “Moose Drool.” Har.
I’ve been taken to task, and rightly so, by a commenter named Setay who notes that it is offensive to associate Gov. Palin with “Moose Drool.” As Setay notes, “Moose Drool” is the name of a brown ale crafted by the Big Sky Brewing Co. of Missoula, Montana, a progressive town that voted against Palin in the recent election.
You can click here to see Big Sky’s complete line of fine products, which include ales called “ScapeGoat” and “Powder Hound.”
I believe “Powder Hound” is what Palin calls her snowmobiling husband, “Todd.”
- Mark Your Calendars: Shasta College hosts a two-day conference on sustainability on April 17-18. Looks like a big deal, with speakers on climate change, nuclear power/waste, and “green” building. Keynote speaker is Dr. Scott McNall of CSU-Chico, director of the Institute for Sustainable Development. For more information, click here.
- DVD I Watched on the Dreadmill: “10th and Wolf,” a Mafia drama that’s pretty lame despite a big-name cast, including weeping Giovanni Ribisi. Two pistol-packing heroes wipe out an entire mansion full of mobsters, never pausing to pick up the Uzis and other guns practically handed to them by dying goombahs, even though one of those heroes is just back home from Iraq and presumably knows something about superior firepower. Only when you reach the end of the prolonged shootout does it become clear: They’re using the Magical Pistols You Never Have to Reload.
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