Yep. The equivalent of 4 bottles rigged as a bag-in-a-box-with-a-tapper. Classy. And after a couple of glasses to get past the pucker factor, it tastes pretty good, too. It’ll have to do, since I’m off the beer for a while on account of lately, when I bend over, my belt buckle has been aggressively reminding me that my stomach has developed an underside. Sigh.

So I’ve been entertaining myself in the usual way, getting buzzed up and careening around the intertoobz. I’ve been checking out a lot of new blogs lately. I thought I’d mention a couple tonight. First, there’s abu muqawama, a group blog “dedicated to following issues related to contemporary insurgencies as well as counterinsurgency tactics and strategy.” It seems to be a pretty knowledgeable group — both the posters and the commenters — of youngish veterans and active duty military. It’s good stuff, mostly over my head, so I’ve just been lurking. I don’t know enough to even ask a question.

Different story over at Gateway Pundit, a right-winger who apparently resides here in River City. His slogan is “Where Hope Finally Made A Comeback.” That’s deep, innit? He mostly specializes in posting links to other nimrod bloggers (and strangely enough, himself) which purportedly prove the latest right-wing noise-machine talking points to be iron-clad truth. It’s easy pickings in the comments section; the stoopid runs strong and deep. I’ve been making a nuisance of myself over there tonight arguing global warming in the comments to this post. My father used to warn me about arguing with fools, but I just can’t help myself sometimes.