Anyone Else Feel A Draft In Here?

-- ADDENDUM --
Draft Wrap-up.
Holy shit, the Chargers had a good draft.
They traded up to get Ryan Mathews, a RB who not only will be the next LdT, but he actually reminds me a lot of Tomlinson when he came out of college. I'm excited.
And they got the Nose Tackle I hoped they would, picking up Cam Thomas out of my alma mater. They also picked up a bruising safety, another linebacker and a third string QB whom I have concerns about, but lets face it, he ain't ever going to start for the Chargers.
Awesome draft.

-- Original Post --
Today is Draft Day in the NFL.
I'm not cool with it.
Thursday "night" (4 pm here on the West Coast, when I'm still at fucking work)?
Really?
Fuck you.
The first two rounds of the draft should be on Saturday, starting in the morning, like it has every year since I've been alive.
But no, we've got to fuck with things simply because we can, and its sad to see that the government doesn't own a monopoly on that line of thinking.
Round One tonight/this afternoon, Round Two tomorrow, and the rest throughout the weekend.
Fuck you, NFL.
Anyway, here are the things I'd like to see happen;

The Rams and Redskins swap picks a la the Giants and Chargers in 2004, where Bradford goes to Washington, and the Rams pick another offensive lineman.

The Raiders trade away their pick to the Steelers for "Humpy" Rothlisberger.

By some miracle the Chargers pick up Ryan Matthews

The Vikings land Jimmy Clausen, because as much of a prick as the kid is, he's going to be the best QB taken in this draft class, and dropping to the 30th pick will do his ego a world of good. And it'd give Favre a clear exit strategy.

That if the Chargers can't get Matthews, they trade down and try to fatten up in Round Two. No Terrence Cody. Please, God, no Terrence Cody.

And with that, I'll keep up with the first round of the draft online, through PFT, because the NFL brass just refuse to leave shit alone. Thanks, Rodger Goodell. This will be the first NFL Draft of my lifetime that I won't actually be able to watch.
Kudos.

It's BBQ Season, Yo

I've been grillin' and drinkin' and generally just carryin' on.
And yes, I pay by the letter g, lowercase in ending sentences, so that's why there ain't none there.
Anyway.
In honor of that, I offer my BBQ sauce recipe, published for the first time anywheres.

Ingredients
One stick of butter, unsalted
Two chopped onions (use red onions if you want a little kick)
Six chopped cloves of garlic
Three cups fresh tomato paste (make it yourself from fresh tomatoes)
One cup apple cider vinegar
One cup Worcestershire sauce
One cup packed dark brown sugar
One and 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
Two teaspoons pepper, ground extremely fine
Two teaspoons kosher salt
One pour of bourbon (Makers Mark if you want sweet, Russel's Reserve or Knob Creek if you want savory)
Two 12-ounce cans of Dr. Pepper

Cooking
Melt the butter in a sauce pan, and saute the onions and the garlic in the butter until they're clear.
Throw in the remaining ingredients and let it all simmer until the sauce begins to thicken, which is about half an hour to 45 minutes.
Let the sauce cool for about 10 minutes.
It's good for brazing, slow-cooking, and to use as a condiment.
It is not good as a marinade.
I like it best with pork and chicken, though I find it a little too sweet to use with beef.
This makes an amount that is good for one grilling session feeding about six-to-eight people.
Any extra should be used within a few days.
Enjoy!

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Enjoy!

It's Funny

You'd think I'd be a little upset, or wary, or pissed off this morning.
You'd think that.
You'd be in error.
I feel great.
And I've still got my health!
Wait a second...
Seriously though, does this surprise anyone?
Were any of you fooled by the excruciatingly slow, poorly scripted kabuki unfolding in the Capitol lo these many months?
I wasn't.
The funniest part, (if any humor is to be found in this) is that the Senate likely won't pass the House's reconciliation bill, which was the only reason the House was willing to pass the Senate bill in the first place. It will be fun to see them stabbed in the back yet again.
Actually, the funniest part was watching Stupak denounce on the House floor the exact anti-abortion funding language he himself had written, and had pushed for months.
You will hear a lot of tough talk about repeal, and it will likely sweep the Repugs back into power as a seemingly stunned Democrat leadership watches helplessly, but it is all window dressing, all for show.
The only chance for opponents to repeal is for the courts to strike it down, and the only avenues they'll have are
1. Declaring the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate
2. Declaring the undfunded mandates placed on states to be unconstitutional or excessive
3. Through some kind of challenge of Congress' authority to even do this through the commerce clause, as health insurance isn't technically commerce, and even if it were, is not commerce that is exchanged between state lines at all.
4. Through a backdoor legal challenge to the student loan nationalization bill that was passed as an amendment to the HR health bill.
In my heart of hearts, I don't think any of them will go anywhere, but on the bright side this more than a trillion-dollar debacle will rocket America's entitlement charade well beyond the precipice and into the howling chasm of doom and destruction much sooner than I had been banking on.
I'll drink to that.

-- ADDENDUM --

Also, I am not quite clear on how this new package insures "30 million+" of the uninsured, with no public option or single-payer government system. As far as I'm aware, this bill institutes a shitload of taxes, the individual mandate, some token and meaningless subsidies for small businesses, orders the 50 states to expand Medicaid coverage (but not necessarily to cover more people) and heaps mountains of regulations on insurance companies. Which they are probably happy about, because they know they can then raise rates exorbitantly because you HAVE TO BUY insurance. It is likely that many of the small insurers will fold up shop and be absorbed by the larger ones, and since health insurance companies still will not be able to compete across state lines, chances are there will only be one or two companies in your state when the dust settles.
Guess which way premiums will go then?

Why Huck's A Rebel, And He'll Never Be Any Good

It would figure that following my bragging on myself for posting twice in the same week I would essentially enter radio silence for nearly a month afterward.
Keepin' you on your toes, folks. We're a full service outfit here.
Anyway.
I have had a decent excuse.
We're getting a house.
I about fainted six times just trying to write that sentence.
Heaven help me.
Yes, the guy who's lived in 32 different cities across the continent in the last decade is puttin' down roots, and is freaked the fuck out about it.
But enough of my bullshit.
How've y'all been?
What'd I miss?