I'm a huge fan of the Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin. I first encountered the books back when I was 13 and have re-read them about every 5-6 years. Well, the SciFi channel is set to broadcast the miniseries Earthsea which will be based on the first two books in the triology. Hopefully this will eventually lead to having The Farthest Shore being produced. Tehanu and The Other Wind I can live without, although I enjoyed the fifth book much more than the fourth.

One final note about Le Guin: I disliked The Left Hand of Darkness almost as much as I enjoyed the Earthsea Cycle. However, the three novels in this compendium restored my passion for her works. I give both the Hainish novels and the original Earthsea trilogy my highest rating. Read them, if you haven't already.

Update: I forgot to mention that the miniseries premieres on December 13 at 9 p.m. ET. Guess I need to tell my wife that I have plans for that and the subsequent evenings.

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When idiots like the woman in this story survives, you just know that natural selection isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Excerpt:

Last January, Frankhouser was hit by a train as she walked along railroad tracks in her hometown of Jeannette, Pa., a southeastern suburb of Pittsburgh.

Amazingly, she came away from the encounter with only a broken finger, some cuts and, according to the lawsuit, "pain."

That's not all, folks: she's suing the rail company for not warning her to walk on the tracks.

"Defendant's failure to warn plaintiff of the potential dangers negligently provided plaintiff with the belief she was safe in walking near the train tracks," Frankhouser's suit asserts.

It goes on to state that Norfolk Southern, based in Norfolk, Va., should have posted signs warning passersby "of the dangers of walking near train tracks and that the tracks were actively in use."

Anyone else want to get in line and bitch-slap some frigging sense into this dimwit? I swear to God, I don't know what's happened to the people in this country. Every time something bad happens to someone, they want to win the tort jackpot. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Fuck. Them. And fine them for filing frivolous lawsuits.

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Has everyone heard about Hardee's new burger?

Weighing in at 1,420 calories and containing 107 grams of fat. All you vegetarians just don't know what you're missing. The unfortunate thing is that it's a frigging Hardee's burger. Ugh.

Tip of the blog to Kevin for the link.

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A hot conservative type woman sporting a big freaking gun.

It just doesn't get any better than this. Bang, zoom, into the blogroll with Risawn.

Update: I nearly forgot: Risawn reminded me of the following quote by John Stewart Mill.

""War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

Words to live by.

Update: Welcome Instapundit readers!

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Or just plain "on crack"? Bill O'Reilley recommends Bill Clinton for Secretary of State. Really.

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TMQ decries the taking of wonderful novels and then creating a cinematic disaster whose only resemblance to the book is the title. Excerpt:

At any rate, this buying up of rights to good books, then changing everything in order to make bad movies, made TMQ wonder about other similar possibilities for big-budget productions:

For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ben Affleck stars as an operative of An Agency Far, Far More Secret Than the CIA who is sent behind the lines of the Spanish Civil War in order to prevent Nazi agents from using a beautiful scientist's invention to open a doorway into a parallel universe. Gorgeous shots of the Catalonia countryside, plus numerous car chases. Angelina Jolie costars as the scientist, who can only think when her shirt is off.

Hedda Gabler. Nicole Kidman produces and stars in this all-singing musical-comedy adaptation of the Ibsen play. Story line is slightly altered to have Hedda be a beautiful Norwegian housewife who teaches kickboxing and operates an organic online catering firm. She falls in love with a dark, handsome stranger (Ben Stiller) and must reconcile her passion for him with her duty to her introverted husband Tesman (Andre3000), a scientist who has invented a doorway into a parallel universe.

Goodnight Moon. Big-budget adaptation of the children's classic uses incredible digital technology to make you believe that Cameron Diaz has turned into an old lady whispering "hush." The baby bunny in the bedroom falls through a doorway into a parallel universe and must stop a ring of ruthless spies bent on world domination -- all before lights-out! Eddie Murphy voices the mouse.

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The Commissar has a new map of the Empire of Blogs. The Mu Nu Confederation plan of world domination proceeds apace. However, my own little corner of re-education appears to be curiously absent. The residents of my single pixel gulag will continue to suffer in obscurity.

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What, you may ask, IS a counter-pressure bottle filler and why would I need one? If you keg your beer, or your favorite beer only comes in kegs, then you might want to have a counter-pressure bottle filler on hand. It will allow you to bottle kegged and carbonated beer, allowing for easy transport while simultaneously keeping the beer carbonated. Pretty handy if you want to take some homebrew to a party.

There have been numerous examples of homemade counter-pressure bottle fillers presented in various magazines and books. However, the best Poor Man's Counter Pressure Bottle Filler looks like this

Now get to work.

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A grilled cheese sandwich sporting a picture of the Virgin Mary was pulled off of ebay recently. Now I'll never get a chance at the winning bid.

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I work on a PC all day. Being a programmer(and an engineer before that) means that I'm pretty much the uglier Siamese twin of a computer all day. Here's the bad part: it could give me glaucoma. Excerpt:

Heavy use of computers may be linked to the development of a progressive eye disease, researchers claim.

A study in Japan has found that staring at a screen could be related to glaucoma, which can lead to blindness.

The latest study, by the Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, finds the risk is particularly strong for the short-sighted.

Thank God I'm far-sighted. It still sucks the big fat hairy green drippy one, though.

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On the first day of Christmas my partner gave to me,
A pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the second day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the third day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Seven mashtuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the eigth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Eight friends a-capping

Seven mashtuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Nine brewsters mashing

Eight friends a-capping

Seven mashtuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Ten brewpots boiling

Nine brewsters mashing

Eight friends a-capping

Seven mash tuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Eleven chillers chilling

Ten brewpots boiling

Nine brewsters mashing

Eight friends a-capping

Seven mash tuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

On the twelth day of Christmas my partner gave to me,

Twelve maltsters malting

Eleven chillers chilling

Ten brewpots boiling

Nine brewsters mashing

Eight friends a-capping

Seven mash tuns lautering

Six carboys bubbling

Five How To Brew books,

Four pounds of malt

Three hop pellets

Two yeast packs

And a pre-assembled bottling tree.

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If you want to give the gift that keeps on giving, then homebrew kits and gadgets are the way to go. Anyone can give beer by mail, but let's face it: eventually, the beer runs out. Teach a man/woman to homebrew, though, and the fun never stops. Go here for some gift suggestions.

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Many breweries produce specialty brews near the winter solstice each year. Here is a pretty good list of holiday beers that you might want to be on the lookout for. The excerpt below is of the ones I've actually tasted at least once.

Brewed in North AmericaAbita Christmas Ale - Louisiana
Anchor "Our Special Ale" - California
Avery Brewing Old Jubilation Ale - Colorado
Berkshire Brewing Cabin Fever Ale - Massachusetts
Bert Grant's Deep Powder Ale - Washington
Blue Ridge Snowball's Chance Winter Ale - Maryland
Boulder Igloo Ale - Colorado
Boulevard Nutcracker Ale - Missouri
Breckenridge Christmas Ale - Colorado
Catamount Wassail - Vermont
Concord Brewing Northwoods Ale - Massachusetts
Crooked River Yuletide Ale - Ohio
Deschutes Jubelale - Oregon
Dogwood Winter Ale - Georgia
Dominion Winter Brew - Virginia
Flying Fish Grand Cru Winter Reserve - New Jersey
Full Sail Wassail - Oregon
Goose Island Christmas Ale - Chicago
Great Lakes Christmas Ale - Ohio
Harpoon Winter Warmer - Massachusetts(note: had one last night)
Highland Brewing Cold Mountain Winter Ale - North Carolina(great beer available in Asheville, NC)
Leavenworth Snowblind Winter Warmer - Washington
Magic Hat Feast of Fools - Vermont
Mendocino Yuletide Porter - California
New Belgium Frambozen - Colorado
Otter Creek - A Winters Ale - Vermont
Pete's Winter Brew - Texas
Pyramid Snow Cap - Washington
Redhook Winterhook - Washington
Rogue-Santa's Private Reserve - Oregon
Rogue-Yellow Snow - Oregon
Saint Arnold Christmas Ale - Texas
Saint Arnold Winter Stout - Texas
Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig - Massachusetts
Samuel Adams Winter Lager - Massachusetts
Shiner Winter Ale - Texas
Sierra Nevada Celebration - California
Stoudt's Holiday Reserve - Pennsylvania
Tabernash-Left Hand XXXmas Ale - Colorado
Troegs Mad Elf - Pennsylvania
Troegs Oatmeal Stout - Pennsylvania
Weeping Radish Christmas Double Bock - North Carolina
Wild Goose Snow Goose - Maryland
Woodstock Ichabod Crane Holiday Beer - New York

Imported into North AmericaAas Jubel - Norway
Abbaye des Rocs Special Noel - Belgium
Corsendonk Christmas Ale - Belgium
Delerium Noel - Belgium
De Dolle Winter Nacht - Belgium
Fantome de Noel - Belgium
Fantome Winter - Belgium
Fuller's Old Winter Ale - England
Fuller's Vintage Ale - England
Harvey's Christmas Ale - England
Samichlaus - Austria(coming in around 14% alcohol, this is a good sipping by the open fire beer)
Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome - England
Scaldis Noel - Belgium
Young's Winter Warmer - England

That list is scarily long. What's worse is that it's bound to lengthen this holiday season.

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Pssst! Wanna get some behind the scenes info about Lucas's latest celluloid abortion masterpiece, Revenge of the Sith? Then go here. Not sure yet? Okay, here's an excerpt:

We enter the green screen set of Revenge of the Sith. I watch as George Lucas takes control. Stars Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman are both suspended twenty feet over the floor in hydraulic harnesses, their limbs clamped to their sides.

Both wear skin-tight green body suits that blend with the green background, with orange tennis balls glued to their bodies in a grid. Though the set is completely bare, I can sense the possibilities. In post-production, everything green will be replaced with the fruits of Lucas's imagination, brought to reality through digital effects. I take a seat and watch the magic happen.

"Squint!" Lucas screams into a boom mic. "We're animating your bodies to walk toward each other!" Green mechanical arms push the two actors together. Portman begins to twitch from the pressure of the clamps.

"Don't move your limbs!" Lucas directs. "You'll disrupt the motion tracking! Act with your faces! No, not your mouths! We're doing CGI mouths. Just your eyes. Your other eye! Now squint! You're in love! Squint like it!"

The director sakes a seat attached to a camera rig. "Here comes the wompherder! You're running now! Your bodies are animated to be running! You're in terror! Squint in terror! NOT WITH THAT EYE!"

The hydraulic arm jerks Hayden suddenly upward by six feet, contorting his spine visibly. Several members of the crew get queasy and run from the room.

"Ooooo! Now Anakin is riding the wompherder! Go Anakin! Squint, Natalie! Squint in admiration! No, not that much!"

I can hardly wait to see the final product.

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So the Boy Scouts are discriminatory because its members must believe in God. Somehow, I don't believe that the ACLU would get its panties in a wad about an association of atheists requiring a denial of God by its members to be violating anti-discrimination laws.

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A woman and a man are involved in a car accident; it's a bad accident.

Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them are hurt.

After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says, "So you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should

meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days.

Flattered, the man replied, "Oh yes, I agree with you completely, this must be a sign from God!"

The woman continued, "and look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune."

Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman.

The woman takes the bottle and immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.

The man asks, "Aren't you having any?"

The woman replies, "No. I think I'll just wait for the police....."

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Now that food has replaced sex in my life,
I can't even get into my own pants.


Marriage changes passion.
Suddenly you're in bed with a relative.

I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it.
So I said "Implants?" She hit me.

How come we choose from just two people to run for
president and 50 for Miss America?

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Darn...that was fun!"

I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose-fitting clothing.
If I HAD any loose-fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!


When I was young we used to go "skinny dipping,"
now I just "chunky dunk."

Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able
to tell the difference.

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could
simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? AMEN, AMEN !!

Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but
they can in prison?

Wouldn't you know it...
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.

Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten
Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?

Bumper sticker of the year:
"If you can read this, thank a teacher-and, since it's in English, thank a
soldier !!"

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It's been months since I posted a linkfest. I got kinda sidetracked, what with the election and all. Man, I'm glad that's over for a while. Anyway, on with whatever I've culled from the web and blogiverse:
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Now that is an expensive dam.

A mach-10 jet. I think I'm getting all tingly inside.

So now a for-pay version of The Book Of Mormon is being produced. I guess "free" wasn't good enough?

Scientific wonder: a walking, talking plant. Okay, I've just insulted the azaleas in my yard.

Hey, look in the f**king machine next time!

The most recent bug fix for Internet Explorer has been released. Code name? Firefox.

Odo's character on Boston Legal has been upgraded to permanent cast member. About time.

This news story contains a line that you almost never see:

A British skydiver has survived a 3,500ft fall after his parachute failed to open.
Charlie Williams, 25, was saved by a corrugated iron roof he smashed through at 120mph.

The producers of this German soap opera really bend over backwards to please you.

The interim coach of the Dolphins makes the same effing mistake that his predecessor made: he's starting Feeley. I believe that the word "permanent" will not be attached to this coach's resume. On the other hand, Feeley isn't very mobile. Behind Miami's makeshift O-line, that could be trouble. Big, big trouble.

>Ace links to a story that shows that maybe stupidity is to blame for France's myriad problems.

Don't piss off Susie; she might bring out the Comfy chair. I think that my results are unsurprising:

You are the Abuse Clerk! You dish out verbal (and
some physical!) abuse all day long...as long as
the customer keeps payin'! Aaah...such
satisfying work!


What Monty Python Sketch Character are you?
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The Queen of All Evil has a related quiz which yields the expected result. I, on the other hand, am a pimply, bespectacled nerd-boy playing a D&D wizard in my mom's basement. And we didn't even have a basement. The comment on my social life is accurate, though.

You are Tim the Enchanter! Sure you can blow up
small objects, but no-one really respects you.
But you'll have the last
laugh...MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Which Monty Python & the Holy Grail Character are you REALLY?
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Update: Susie had the same results as Rosemary. Hmmm. I'm thinking about wandering the English countryside whilst dressed as a knight. Or I would be if I weren't married.

Jen posts about the Three Stages of Karoake, which is not to be confused with the Five Levels of Drinking. Trust when I tell you that there's a good reason I don't drink heavily in establishments sporting one of those machines. Leann links to a little animation that's sure to make your heart grow lighter. I have to admit that I have the winning icon on my desktop at home.

The Bartender is sure to catch some flak for the joke he posted here. In a related story, I got my ass kicked in middle school for telling the following "joke" to a girl:

"Here's a joke that'll flatten your chest...oops, I see you've already heard it." ::smack::

Just to prove that God has a sense of humor(and that I was a world class moron as a teenager), Meg developed quite nicely in high school. Spectacular, even. She forgave me, of course, but she never forgot. At least that's what I'm guessing because she kept "accidentally" showing me her cleavage for the next 4 years. Yeah, accidental. That's it.

Annika asks a question that cannot be answered without massive amounts of drugs.

Iowahawk has the goods on a disease spreading like wildfire throughout the Blue States. It appears that the rot is deep.

I agree completely with Harvey. Call it the non-Silicon Valley Q-factor.

Quantifying this Jeff Goldstein post is left as an assignment for the reader. Funny, I feel that way about a lot of the stuff at Protein Wisdom. Not that I'm jealous or anything.

"Question authority, but not ours. Hate the man, but we're not him."

When reality hits you in the face. Not that I'm gloating or anything, mind.

James displays a picture of a car that might prove difficult to unload. I'm just saying.

A travel guide that all Blue Staters will need to read before traveling to the areas populated by us stoopid folk.

I hear that there's a little Nip in the air today. Also, the troops in Fallujah are exploiting Chinks in the enemy's armor. More like this here and here.

I'm glad that Jim Treacher isn't angry with me. Then again, my blog creeps along under the radar of, oh, pretty much everyone.

If you're visiting Kim du Toit's site regularly, well, you're missing out. Especially when he posts things like this.

::sniff:: A peace agreement has finally been reached in the Middle East. I'm getting a little misty-eyed.

The Carnival of the Recipes #13 is up and cooking. Go and drool. Better yet, go and cook.

Okay, there's a lot more out there, but I've had it. I'd forgotten how tiring these things were. Back to my job where I can get some rest.

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1 Thanks, Matt!

Posted by: Susie at November 16, 2004 03:12 AM (cpb8T)

2 Note to self: build time-machine, insult flat-chested girls... Hey... YOU have a time machine! Can I borrow it?

Posted by: Harvey at November 16, 2004 09:01 PM (tJfh1)

3 Are you certain that I own it? I could have sworn it was Frank G.. However, let me dig around back here underneath all of my micro-games, scifi novels and D&D books. If it's there, I'll find it.

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What with a newborn in the house, working two jobs and teaching a training class and all, I haven't kept up with my daily erading of blogs, which means I missed this beauty over at Cold Fury. Excerpt:

We’ll be burning the UN HQ in New York down, of course, and we’ll be locking all the delegates inside the building before we set it alight. Then we’ll be invading France, just to teach ‘em a lesson about how we Texas cowboys do bidness. The world’s oil, of course, is ours, and we’ll be boiling tons of it and pouring it over the heads of those who refuse to acknowledge our Xtian God. There’ll be no stem cell research, there’ll be no health care at all for the poor (whose numbers we will be increasing by every means we can think of), and if you dare to complain about life in the New Conservative Amerikkka, we’re going to kill you for it.

All of that: so stipulated. Now, the question for you moonbat Lefty baglappers: what the hell are you going to do about it?

I mean, seriously; if you truly believe that all this is now in the process of happening right before your very eyes, doesn’t it become incumbent upon you, as the most basic imaginable of moral obligations, to do something to prevent it, or overturn it? I mean, obviously, you tried peaceful means of stopping us, but that didn’t work—because us right-wingnuts rigged the election and disenfranchised everybody. And you can’t go to the courts because they’re in the Bushitler’s pocket too, all the way up to the Supreme Court, which you’ve been saying for four years now illegally handed him the White House after the tainted 2000 “election.” So your last legal, nonviolent means of resistance has been taken away from you, and you can’t even count on the media to publicize the reality of what’s going on because of their right-wing slant, their fondness for the status quo, and of course the fact that they’re really nothing but money-grubbing corporations themselves whose only concern is the bottom line.

So whatÂ’s left, Lefties? Where do you go from here? What are you gonna do about it?

IÂ’ll tell you what youÂ’re going to do about it: youÂ’re not going to do one damned thing but continue with your whining, thatÂ’s what, and itÂ’s not because deep down youÂ’re all cowards either. ItÂ’s because deep down, you know youÂ’re full of shit. You donÂ’t even believe half the stuff youÂ’re currently crying about yourselves.

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So Katie Couric interviewed Reagan's liberal, hippy daughter and finds that she opposes President Bush's "ban" on embryonic stem cell research. Excerpt:

In an emotional TV interview airing tonight, Ronald Reagan's daughter says President Bush's re-election is "tragic" because it could curtail badly needed embryonic stem-cell research.

Four years of delay in embryonic stem-cell research could be potentially devastating to millions of suffering Americans, former First Daughter Patti Davis tells Katie Couric on NBC's "Dateline."

I'm still amazed that Bush's reversal of the Clinton ban on stem cell research, albeit in a limited fashion, is still referred to as a "ban on research". Apparently, allowing something to happen is now referred to as a ban when a Republican is in office. And by the way, private money has never been banned from this type of research, only federal monies. Amazingly, the vast majority of investors are sinking their hard-earned capital into adult stem cell research. I guess they're just stupid. Right? Anyway, here's more:

In the interview to plug her memoir "The Long Goodbye," Davis said she had chronicled her father's years-long struggle with Alzheimer's and agreed with former First Lady Nancy Reagan that embryonic stem-cell research could have saved him.

I will never say anything bad about Nancy because she's suffered a loss that I can't bring myself to imagine. Her daughter, though, pisses me off because even the most ardent proponents of embryonic stem cell research agree that Alzheimer's isn't likely to be treatable with stem cells. In fairness to Patti, the research is ongoing.

One final intemperate question: do you think that anyone would give a crap about what Patti Davis thinks if her father wasn't Ronald Reagan? Just curious.

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