Death Wish Coffee claims to be a dark roast coffee with close to twice the caffeine of your typical coffee shop roast. I have no idea what it tastes like, but there are times when I could use that kind of jolt, and I’ve always been partial to skulls and crossbones on packaging.
Found via Cali Lewis. Click the image to see the source.
It’s a much more effective warning than “Danger: sharp cutting blade inside”. I suspect there’s some kind of precedent that led to the additional warning label.
Come to think of it, I know a few towns — and people — that should be plastered with this message.
I love this cosplayer’s ingenuity. He’s not just dressed up as Game of Thrones’ Renly “Gay King” Baratheon, he’s dressed as Renly “Just About to be Dead King” Baratheon!
In honour of one of the nicer kings in Westeros, here’s a video tribute to Renly, set to the Electric Six single, Gay Bar:
That’s right, he voted against the funding, rationalizing it as saving taxpayers’ money, despite the fact that programs like TAVIS have had quite a bit of success, bringing down Accordion City’s murder rate to an all time low over the past few years. I get the feeling that he’s going to approve even heftier spending, but this time on breaking skulls rather than prevention.
It’s just another case of “penny wise, pound foolish” disguised as fiscal conservatism, and it’s not that different from the sort of thing described in this earlier post.
U.S. News and World Report reports that Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist formerly with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, received the following email from a conservative blogger on July 9, 2012:
Dear Ms. Shultz,
We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him.
Care to comment?
Here’s her response, dated July 10, 2012:
Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]:
I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He’s really cute.
He’s also my husband.
You know that, right?
You can find the exchange on her Facebook page. She has yet to receive a response.
Ms. Schultz seems to have a fair bit of journalistic integrity. According to U.S. News and World Report, she left the Cleveland Plain Dealer when it “become painfully clear that my independence, professionally and personally, is possible only if I’m no longer writing for the newspaper that covers my husband’s senate race on a daily basis.”
Also notable is the fact that she hasn’t named the blogger. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:
Schultz said this morning that she hasn’t named the blogger because she wants him to “pick better company and do better journalism.”
“I don’t want to be a bully,” she said in a telephone interview. “I can say he was working for one of the larger conservative blogs, but that his name is not in the staff directory. Maybe he’s an intern, maybe an editor was playing a joke on him or maybe he was trying to get a reaction out of me.
Integrity and grace. Thanks for setting an example, Ms. Schultz!
I would’ve appreciated a little more desk space for note-taking back during my university days. Of course, that was when laptop computers were a rarity and their battery life left much to be desired.
These days, I do my note-taking with an iPad and a camera or iPhone (to take pictures of any slides or diagrams), and they don’t require so much room. Whenever I’ve presented to university/college students, most of them appear to be doing the same.