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West Alabama Ice House

If you’re looking for a great dive bar where you can feel relaxed and comfortable from minute one, look no further than West Alabama Ice House.  This dog-friendly bar offers up an excellent beer selection, indoor and outdoor picnic-table seating and none of the pretention of other drinking spots.  It’s a beer and wine bar only, however, so don’t expect to get any of the hard stuff.  They also don’t serve food, but trucks are always nearby in case you get hungry.  For a chill night out with someone special or meeting someone new, West Alabama is the place to be.  Has anyone be

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Video: LambCam

The hot new livecam action this week is at Juniper Moon Farm, where Modern Farmer has set up a live cam of the sheep pen. The cast of characters includes a flock of sheep, “plus four Italian sheep dogs, five goats and a llama, thrown in for comic relief.”

I watched it for several minutes during which one ram sat placidly atop the mountain of hay, while one of the sheep dogs watched it fretfully, apparently wishing it would come down from there already.

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Salty Dog Club, Port Aransas

If you stop by the Salty Dog Club on a typical night you’ll find a well-mixed group of tourists and locals, having fun and drinking the night away.  With great drinks at cut-rate prices, it’s no wonder so many people are attracted to this Port Aransas dive bar.  It’s the typical dark and dingy spot that you might expect, but everyone there is welcoming and friendly.  They also have a couple of pool tables and dart boards in case you feel the need to keep busy while there.  No matter where you’re coming from or how young or old you happen to be, there’s a place at the Salty Dog somewhere.  H

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Christmas movies streaming on Netflix

After suffering through the woefully inadequate selection of Thanksgiving-themed movies, we are finally being rewarded. That's right, I'm talking about Christmas movies! My personal list of favorite holiday movies is really long, so I'll spare you the details, but I did find several of them streaming on Netflix last night. My tastes vary from sentimental Christmas movies to hilarious depictions of the ultimate in family Christmastime dysfunction, but one thing never changes: I can watch most of these over and over, and never tire of them.

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Monday Medley: Saving dogs through photography

Pigtail Pals and Ballcap Buddies is passing around a story about a magician who calls little six-year-old girls “sexy” during his performance and pretty much belittles both boys and girls. Read the letter the mom wrote to him if you get the chance; I thought it was perfect, and a great example for anyone else who wants to speak out against something similar.

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Wedge, Blengino & Co. Go Off on LincStrong & JZ

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Don't have much time, but ... that piece was a loooooong time coming.  Thanks Geoffy!

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Q.  Does the piece indicate, to you, that Zduriencik is "a bully"?

A.  Not by F-500 standards, no ... by baseball standards, apparently, he uses his authority in a way less gentle than they'd like.

Now, bear in mind, Dr. D hates bullies, hates men who pick fights with smaller men and run from fair fights.  Where there is real bullying, he's the first one to speak his mind.  But that's not what we read, in this case, not based on the content of Geoff's article.

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Jack Tatum, in They Call Me Assassin, once mocked Dick Butkus for bragging "When I hit people, I like to see them wobble back to the huddle."  Tatum scoffed, "Anybody in today's NFL knows that if you hit somebody with your best shot, and they can get back to the huddle under their own power, then you are not a hitter."

It's all a question of how you calibrate things, I guess.  I dunno how many high-ranking execs that Geoff has worked under...

Not much that was attributed to Zduriencik, in Baker's article, would have been at all unusual for the Boeing execs I worked for.  

Just f'r instance, I was puzzled, the "bullying" account that Zduriencik apologized to Fusco in the phone call, "You didn't do anything - it wasn't my call."  The exec's I've been around wouldn't have been sheepish about a firing.  No way no how, babe.

The guy who fires anybody sheepishly, that's not the bully you watch out for ... :- )  Some of these guys need to meet some execs with REAL fangs down to their chins.

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Q. Any other examples of "re-calibration" on "bully" definitions?

All about: Bacon

The internet has its fads, and bacon is one of the most enduring. You can buy bacon everything; candles, doughnuts, candy canes, gum, even soda. (Bacon mania is so entrenched in our culture that it even has its own separate Wikipedia page.)

It's pretty easy to make something bacon flavored. Just add smoke flavor and a lot of salt. The actual bacon is a little more tricky, though.

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