IT'S SUMMERTIME, AND THE NEWS IS STILL CRAZY BUT AT LEAST THE LIVIN' IS EASY...

...picture of the day...the County Mayo Irish Football team, a perennial power, has expanded its development and recruiting efforts to Northern New York...during a wonderful break in the Adirondack Mountains last week Sharon and I were delighted to witness a youth team in training...after practicing hard all day, they posed for a team picture...

Mayo All-Ireland, 2025: Zach, Luke, Brady, and "Billy" 

...well now that's reassuring...Maine Governor Paul ("Time to turn") LePage has outdone himself (again)...already notorious for telling the NAACP to kiss his arse, suggesting the IRS is like the Gestapo, and joking about bombing a newspaper, according to Politico LePage has now been caught cavorting with a group of anti-everything nut cases who call themselves "sovereign citizens", which the FBI considers to be a domestic terrorist movement...Pathetic Paul's response to this exposure of his unseemly friends has been to (1) blame the messenger, and (2) explain that in his eight meetings with them “We did not discuss execution, arrest or hanging” of leading Democratic legislators......

Yup, Guv, you shore are a head-scratcher...

...new method for death penalty proposed...in the May 22 edition of The Brew we reported on Oklahoma's concept of a humane death penalty...after poisoning Clayton Lockett for 45 minutes of a slow, twisting death, a state official wisecracked "the line had blown" (referring to Lockett's vein)...now the great state of Arizona has obliterated the record for a drawn-out cruel and unusual death and one-upped Okie in insightful comments...Arizona slow-dripped death row inmate Joseph Wood ("not die") for two agonizing hours before he finally stopped heaving, snorting, gasping, and, finally, breathing...in an expression of profound remorse, Governor Jan Brewer deadpanned that Wood did not suffer and the brother-in-law of Wood's victim offered as an alternative "why didn't we give him Drano"...what a lovely thought from our family values folks in the Southwest...

now available at Home Depot, Lowes, and on Amazon in bulk to save taxpayer dollars on your future executions --  

May we suggest the crystals to 

further prolong the scumbags' agony.

...anti-immigrant hard-liners unveil new ad campaign...the anti-immigration crowd, emboldened by the defeat of Eric Cantor and the rollout of the Obama Administration's renewed determination to kick out South American kids who arrive without their parents, have adopted a new campaign poster to capture their political philosophy...quite catchy it is, too...

...we suggest Deporter-in-Chief Obama ("2 million off our shore and hunting for more") and his pathetic excuse for an Attorney General Eric ("Clueless") Holder, as well as their cold-hearted fellow travelers in Congress, would do better to contemplate the words of Rabbi Asher ("White") Knight of Dallas: "We're talking about whether we're going to stand at the border and tell children who are fleeing a burning building to go back inside"....

...on a cheerier note...we circle back to our lead story above...Murph and I spent five beautiful days at my brother and sister-in-law's summer place, Hawkeye Lodge on Silver Lake in The Middle of Nowhere...the Adirondacks were "lovely, dark, and deep," and unlike Robert Frost we had little to do but sleep, and swim and read and eat and drink...which leads to our brew of the month...Sea Dog Blueberry Wheat Ale is truly unique, with a mildly wild fruity taste perfect for a lazy summer day by the lake...the keg did not last long...may your summer days and evenings be long and drawn-out and delicious...

- the Brewmeister -