You should check this out (if you haven't already)

I don't remember which MySpace blog it was that told me about this link, but if you click on it, you can view An Inconvenient Truth for free; it's in two parts, which are navigable by use of the pull-down menu at the top of the page.

I'll admit to being more than a little skeptical about a documentary starring Al Gore and which was about a topic that has been questioned on more than one occasion. After watching it, however, its message rings true to me and I strongly recommend that you view it -- either via the link I provided or by actually contributing to the economy (i.e., going to the theater or renting the DVD via Netflix or whatever other purveyor you so choose).

Libations for the politically-inclined

If you're going to watch SOTU tonight (that's "State of the Union" for the uninitiated [i.e., anyone outside the Beltway and/or who doesn't care a whit about politics]), you may want to take a gander at Wonkette's idea of a good time during said event (thanks to Democracy in America for pointing it out to me).

Time to go home, watch some NHL All-Star festivities, and go to bed.

The 100th post: Should I or shouldn't I...

...try oysters?

"Why is he asking this?" you may be wondering. Well, last Sunday (1.15.07), I stopped in to the local Legal Seafoods and contemplated trying an oyster or two from their raw bar. I did not at that time, but since then:

• I saw an episode of Good Eats (starring my favorite Food Network personality, Alton Brown) in which oysters were the featured ingredient;
• I read "The Five-Minute Guide to Oysters" in the February issue of Esquire; and
• One of the first books I saw on display during a visit to the Crystal City Olsson's was Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell.

I'm not a big believer in fate, destiny, etc., but I think something's trying to tell me something...

The ghosts of QBs past

In the February issue of Esquire, Chuck Klosterman has penned an interesting and, at the end, really humorous (at least, to me) piece on pro athletes turned TV analysts and their accomplishments/abilities during both phases of their lives. For a taste, here's the concluding paragraph, which just so happens to be about one of the worst quarterbacks my beloved and always beleaguered Vikings ever have fielded (I added the link for the person in question's name):

Sean Salisbury: If you discount the print-media buffoons (Jay Mariotti, Skip Bayless, et al.) who go on TV with the express intent of destroying whatever credibility the newspaper industry once had, Salisbury is the least cogent, most wrongheaded voice in the sports media. He's an atrocity. Yet this broadcast lunacy has saved his gridiron legacy. Salisbury's career-passer rating was a dismal 55.1 and he never had one decent season, but in retrospect that production looks amazing. It seems impossible, but it's true: Sean Salisbury was better as a player. Which is just about the craziest sentence I've ever written.