The Yankee showed me this last week:
It took me a long time to come around to the idea that the anchors were still on the air as they completely lost their composure over what has to be the dumbest interview they’ve done in a while.
And then we watched the first episode of this guy’s show the other night. Surely, I thought to myself, there are more interesting Olympians. Smarter Olympians. But the existence of this show suggests otherwise.
It is a good thing, I’ve told people who brought this show up, that he swims really fast.
We had dinner with a large group of people here:
It is one of those places where the door handle is an elaborate set of antlers. Same with the lighting, which is full of antler-pronged ornamentation. The food is all local. The tables and the bar are all hewn from felled local timber and … oh the bountiful quantities of bacon on the menu.
I had the turkey avocado sandwich with bacon and a Caesar salad. Somehow there was no bacon on the salad, but that’s about the only exception on the menu. They do a bacon-drizzled popcorn, which is better than you’d imagine.
The Hound is pretty intense like that. They are casual in their intensity. Or is it intense in their casualness? Who can say. Look at that menu.
I sent a picture of the menu to a friend, an aficionado of bacon. He said “You had me at Big Fat Steak.”
Things to read: HazMat crew finds no further dangers on barges after fires, 7 explosions:
The flames were fueled by raw gasoline, which was stored on the partially emptied barges as they were docked for cleaning at Oil Recovery Co. of Alabama’s Marine Gas Free Facility.
Three people were cleaning the ship when a fire apparently broke out, catching the gasoline and causing the explosions.
They were transported to USAMC Wednesday night, where they remain in critical condition as of 9:15 a.m., according to USAMC spokesman Bob Lowery.
They were the only people on the barges at the time of the explosions, according to Lt. Mike Clausen of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Triumph, that now infamous hard-luck Carnival vessel? It is taking on repairs just across the water:
“It literally sounded like bombs going off around. The sky just lit up in orange and red,” he said, “We could smell something in the air, we didn’t know if it was gas or smoke.” Waugh said he could feel the heat from the explosion and when he came back inside, his partner noticed he had what appeared to be black soot on his face.
Saw this on Twitter and I wondered about the grandmother’s age:
A Franklin County woman was arrested after police said her 2-year-old grandson tested positive for cocaine …
Deanna Leigh Fretwell, 38, is charged with chemical endangerment of a child. She was arrested after Russellville police said they received a tip from the Department of Human Resources, the report said.
Record Number of Households on Food Stamps– 1 out of Every 5:
The most recent Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) statistics of the number of households receiving food stamps shows that 23,087,886 households participated in January 2013 – an increase of 889,154 families from January 2012 when the number of households totaled 22,188,732.
The most recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau– from December 2012– puts the number of households in the United States at 115,310,000. If you divide 115,310,000 by 23,087,866, that equals one out of every five households now receiving food stamps.
So this isn’t a recovery so much as a series of selectively moving around numbers.
At times like these we must ask ourselves: What would Ryan Lochte do?
