And his names is Gak. This has tasted and rated 3,853 beers since January 1992. His list is here. Bow down before the true King of Beers.

The best part is his admission that “…there should be a lot more beers on this list, but I wasn’t always capable of writing during some of the tasting sessions…” I’m wishing this guy was my neighbor instead of the smelly Hungarian bear herder that hibernates next door currently.

More information has come out regarding the Paula “find mommy’s ginny” Poundstone. A neighbor reported Poundstone to the police, and there was an extensive investigation before the arrest was made. She posted a $200,000 bond to get out of jail, which means her bail was actually $1 million. The court doesn’t impose a $1M bail for traffic tickets, my friends. The evidence must be strong for it to be that high. This is a tragic story. For whatever reasons these kids are no longer with their natural parents, and they go to foster homes to try to rebuild a life that somewhat resembles normality. Crimes against children are the worst of the worst. And because this situation has plenty of comic potential, we’ll be watching it very closely.

As I said for mother-of-the-decade Andrea Yates, maybe they should shave Paula Poundstone’s head and donate that rat mangle hair she has to LocksOfLove.com. LocksOfLove.com makes hairpieces for children that have lost hair for one reason or another and whose family don’t have the money to buy a quality hair replacement for their child. I personally think that should be part of the punishment for every person found guilty of a crime against a child — shave their head and donate the hair.

So the Microsoft breakup was overturned. Ok, question. Who didn’t see this coming? Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is a big Republican. He paid Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian Coalition, to lobby president dubya on this issue. Did I mention that Ralph Reed was also one of dubya’s top campaign advisors? That means Reed was pocketing money to lobby dubya while he was working at a top official in the campaign. Dubya gets in office, Microsoft gets the benefit. What I want to know is, when will the congressional investigations begin?

Update: (by Taranis) As much as it saddens me, it seems Jetteva has been spirited away by men in dark suits driving black Suburbans. I told him to ease up on the Dub a little, but he really hates that “man” with a passion. Here’s hoping he comes back to us with only slight rear entry wounds.

I’ve said many times in this arena as well as others that humans are growing dumber as a whole. I recently saw some folks from Illinois on the highway trying to prove me right.

Though I don’t live in Tennessee, I do work there so I realize that there are legal differences between there and Georgia. Many things such as TN has no state income tax and GA does. TN allows beer over 6% alcohol to be sold where as GA doesn’t. GA allows video poker machines whereas TN does not. GA has a state lottery and TN does not. Another difference and one that brings me back to the family of Illini is that TN allows the sale and ignition of fireworks and GA does not.

This Illini family, which was headed to Atlanta judging by the hand-scrawled on notebook paper sign they had taped to their window that read, “Hotlanta or Bust,” had stopped somewhere in Tennessee to stock up on fireworks. Now, most folks would have just thrown them in a bag and set them in the backseat. Oh no, not only had these people neglected the idea of a “shopping bag” but they had chosen to put the fireworks on the little shelf below the rear window of their Aries K. In addition, they had boxes of fireworks tied to the roof of the car.

So, I fly by them at about 90 hoping that the spontaneous combustion that is imminent doesn’t occur at that precise moment and I wonder allowed about the quality of education at the University of Illinois when I notice their front license plate proclaiming their alumni status of that fine institution. My theory on the draining intelligence of humans couldn’t be better illustrated.