In the spirit of Asha’s wonderful CSA, if anyone has any local food-focused summer recipes to share, please do so in the comments.

Focusing on a more specific way to define the groups of extremists that will separate them from everyone else who practices Islam and is not a terrorists is long overdue.

Today is Post-Independence Day, and as cliche as it may be, a chunk of me is devoted to the actual people we are (or were formerly) at war with.

Palin’s, Trains, and Automobiles.

I’m picturing Nicola Tesla’s Colorado Springs or Henry Ford’s Detroit. Maybe that’s a little unrealistic. I have hope for Hampton Roads.

Of the addicts I know, few are motivated enough to attend free meetings on a regular basis. While the cost of the meetings are minimal in comparison to the cost of maintaining a narcotics addiction, addiction doesn’t bend itself to logic.

SOLs, Sandra Bullock, oceans of oil, crab pickin Sundays.

From his poem Here,Bullet, Brian Turner writes, “here, Bullet,/here is where the world ends, every time.”??????

VDOT “needs help,” child abuse in headlines and real life, Larry Bush is now Laura Bush and wants to serve the VFW as a woman

Region “finds” a boatload of cash; Local fruit in VB school lunches; No more biking or jogging at Fort Story; Sex offenders get locked up until, well, whenever.

Financial overhaul, leaking oil, new cancer vaccine, strawberries and superheroes.

“A lot of people think that Europeans are way ahead of us, but they are way behind. They never gave up on the local brewer and butcher. That kind of craftsmanship needs to become more important to us. The integrity is important. My integrity is to the farm.”