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October 5, 2005

You and James Read the News

Modest but flavorful
- That’s how they’re describing this year’s apple crop. Lucky apple pickers among us, can anyone vouch for this? I’ve been too buried in work and stuff to venture anywhere near an apple orchard. If I miss apple-picking entirely this year, I am going to be pissed.
Sox Routed
- Not really fun to listen to while you’re working. The Sox were trounced.
Miers’ friends say church is evidence of her viewpoints
- Well, whatever. But my biggest worry is that someone nominated to be a judge shows such poor judgment by saying that Dubya is the smartest man she’s ever met. Come on, doesn’t a statement like that automatically disqualify a person from judging anything? Bush can’t be serious. I guess this is his “I don’t expect you to confirm” nominee.
To Keep Post, DeLay May Need Quick Justice
- Dear DeLay: please stop hogging all of the indictments for yourself. There are so many other people who have ~~have~~ gone unindicted for so long — they deserve to share in the bounty.
- “I am going to fight it to the death,” Mr. DeLay said in a radio interview with the conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh. He hinted that he and his legal team were preparing to seek “remedies and appeals to higher levels” against Mr. Earle.
- Well, gee, Tom. It was shur nice knowing you. But, how typical. The response is to go after the prosecutor. The first Swift-boating didn’t take, I guess.
Paparazzi linked to second Lohan crash
- Dear photogs: We don’t need pictures of Miss Lindsay that bad. Stop drinking on the job. Best wishes, James.
Bush says military would be used to contain avian flu
- Next up, military to take control if your favorite TV show is canceled. You know, to stop the riots and such. Bush will be remembered as the president who never saw a problem that guns couldn’t solve.
Spokesman for Taliban Arrested, Pakistan Says
- Word is, however, that Scott McClellan is still at large. So, be on the lookout.

Posted by James at October 5, 2005 8:26 AM

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Hey, it was Chicago's first playoff victory since 1993. They should have that win...as long as we get the next three.

Posted by: Patti M. at October 5, 2005 8:51 AM

Bush says military would be used to contain avian flu

What a tard.

(deep breath to regulate pulse)

So, let me see if I've got this straight. Bush has the National Guard doing the job of the Army, Marines, and other armed forces, and he wants to wipe out the Posse Comitatus Act so the Army, Marines, and other armed forces to do the job of the National Guard.

You know, nothing says "all is well" like seeing the U.S. Army marching down your street.

Posted by: Patti M. at October 5, 2005 8:57 AM

We went picking this past Saturday and to be honest I didn't notice that the apples were more flavorful. Not to say they weren't good. they were but then they always are. I did notice that theywere small though. Not a lot of big apples on the trees. I assume due to the dry summer. Also the orchard we went to was pretty well picked over already by the time we got there. I'd say down in the SC you better get out soon if you want to pick your own!!!Unless you prefer the late varieties. Like Delicious the most misnamed food ever. Blech. They must have named it that to trick people into buying them!

Posted by: B.O.B. (bob) at October 5, 2005 9:11 AM

I hope to go apple picking on Sunday in either Achusnet or my old neighborhood, Rochester. I'll bring you in a sample.

Posted by: Sara at October 5, 2005 9:51 AM

Yeah. I've never understood the naming of the Delicious. I much prefer the Jonagold, which we don't seem to get out here.

Posted by: briwei at October 6, 2005 10:42 AM

I loves me some Cortland.

Posted by: James at October 6, 2005 12:37 PM

Your suspicions are correct, B.O.B.

In the 1880s, a mail-order nurseryman named Clarence Stark held a competition to find an apple to replace the Ben Davis, a variety grown extensively in orchards from Pennsylvania to Missouri. At the same time, Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, was trying to interest nurseries in buying and propagating a seedling he had raised and named the Hawkeye. Stark bit, so to speak, paid Hiatt for the rights, and then renamed the seedling the Delicious as a marketing ploy. When Stark's successors, in a similar stunt, found and named the Golden Delicious growing in West Virginia in 1914, the Delicious became Red Delicious.

Washington Post: Why the Red Delicious No Longer Is

Posted by: Mike L. at October 6, 2005 1:24 PM

That explains the 1880s and 1914, but now that people know what they taste like, why do they still grow and eat them??

Posted by: Julie at October 6, 2005 2:26 PM