"Something can't just appear out of nothing- that's another scientific fact! Mike"

Well, if you'll read up on your quantum physics, you'll realize that we really don't know what matter will or won't do. We can only give it probabilities for certain behaviors we've observed in the past.

As for possible Religious explanations of the big bang, that too would qualify as something we really don't understand. String theory is only now touching on hidden dimensional possibilities that would theorize a bouncing big bang theory wherein the matter in the universe expands as far as the initial energy of the explosion that caused it, and then it starts to shrink, until it all meets again, collapses into a giant black whole, and explodes again.

Oh and to all of you who smoked pot before you read that, I’m really sorry.

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Converstaion with a Friend on Civility

Hi Scott,

I met a few Randian nuts a couple of years back and I must say they are among the most wack-o people I have ever met. The ones I met advocated for total anarchy. Their premise was that any government of any kind was evil. I thought they were joking and that they were just venting. But as I probed more, it turned out that the histrionics weren't. They actually believed and were virulently against any form of government whatsoever.

Ayn Rand would have called them wack-o's. Anything I wrote, any entreaties I made to rationality were rebuffed. I submitted my best stuff and it was completely derided.

I have to say one thing about BTC [our unofficial stagehand's union group at Yahoo]. It seems at times like we act like apes toward one another and fair argument can be made in that direction. However, compared with the on-line manners in the bigger virtual world out there, we have the courtliest manners of any chat group I have ever seen. Folks, it is madness out there. The art of discourse is unknown.

Did your parents ever periodically sit you down at the dinner table on say--a Sunday night and include you in conversation? Turn the TV off and just you, mom and dad and sis? My parents would periodically do that. They would talk about any issue, religion, current events, history, cars, sumo wrestling--you name it, and I was expected to contribute to the conversation. It did not matter what I said. What was important was that I said something and exercised the old brain a bit. Experience and judgment hopefully would develop in time.

I have carried this tradition on, work schedules permitting with my wife and 3 kids. It is amazing the kind of dividends it pays when you treat children and teens with the same level of respect in conversation that you might give to Buckminster Fuller; allowing them to complete their sentences without interrupting. I learned from reading history that in Roman times it was not unheard of for 13-year-old boys to be leading troops around Europe and overseeing the building of aqueducts.

Can anybody in this forum remember back when they were 13 or so, feeling ready to inherit the earth? Remember back to just before you decided the cards were too stacked against teenagers and thus turned to drugs and/or alcohol as an escape? Am I the only one? I will bet I am not. Especially in this BTC forum.

Scott, tell me if I have you wrong on this, but my deal is this: If you actually EARNED the money by honest (not on technicalities and "legal" chicanery) and have paid your way to the top and have fairly compensated those who helped you get and stay there, then I think you can have all the money in the world. It does not bother me one bit.

What does bother me are the people who make money make money by manipulating stock markets, financial ledgers and duping investors and employees and so forth. The slack in the economy has to be taken up somewhere otherwise the value of the currency will falter. And guess who has to take up this slack? Yep. The working stiff. You and me. That is where the inequity lies. And that is why populations revolt. They get sick of the idle rich getting fat off their hard work with none of the promised trickle-down rewards or dividends.

Corruption is endemic in the capitalist system. Teddy Roosevelt, a far from perfect president at least was able to partially take the country back out from under the gluttonous corporate tyrannies of Rockefeller, Morgan et al.

What is the difference between capitalism and communism? One is a military tyranny where only a few live high on the hog and the other is a corporate tyranny where only a few live high on the hog.

In Ancient Greece, a local cynic by the name of Diogenes could be seen carrying around a lantern even during the day time. He was illustrating that he was ever searching for "an honest man", but to no avail. Well, Diogenes was, after all, a cynic. Cynics were not popular in Athens. They were mostly counter-productive. Cynics advocated apathy and spewed doom and gloom and cast a pall over everything positive. The cynic movement came from a section of Athens called "Kynikos", or translated; Dog-town. When a person is regarded as a yapping cur-dog or "cynic", one is referring all the way back to Ancient Athens.

It is a big world out there and in spite of appearances to the contrary, there is not much civility or decorum. What passes for it these days is mostly put-downs and red-neck or white collar rhetoric.

But where civility does exist, those who practice it probably have fond memories of conversation with family and friends at a dinner table somewhere.

Jeff

Jeff,

Ah, civility. I was raised by red-necks who fought all the time in the backwoods of Arkansas. I spent my summers with my Dad at the Hollywood Bowl, because if I wanted to see him, that's where he was for the whole summer. I'd spend 9 months reading so I could spend three months talking to him (when he wasn't too busy). It's a miracle I don't have a split personality. He was a moderate Republican, and we had very civil conversations, even though he bordered on a racist with all that Bell Curve crap from the Manhattan Institute (Randians).

Your view of communism is shaped by the distorted fascist socialistic system the soviets used. It wasn't even close to what Marx wrote about. His was more of a big union (workers of the world unite) that threw off the chains the corporate, 1984-Rollerball world strapped upon us. I'm not a communist, even on small scales. I think some jobs should pay more. That's why I've supported personal service contracts in the local. Making more money than somebody less skilled or who works less is only fair. Hard work should be rewarded. But work should not be taxed more than wealth. That is where I depart from most Randians, present company excluded, and Bushians.

We have that little coke-head frat brat mommy's boy (I can't be civil when talking about GW "God Speaks Through Me" Bush) stand up during a Presidential debate and lie when he said "By far, the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the middle class." Two-thirds of the Bush tax cuts have gone to people who make more that $200,000 a year. And rates on taxes on investment income have fallen below the rates middle class people pay for income earned from their hard labor. Where are all the millions of jobs they told us these tax cuts would create?

I don't see how we can be expected to be civil when so much depends upon politics now. We have fascist Republicans comparing Howard Dean to suicide bombers (Governor Pataki, to his credit, rebuked this asinine comment from the head of the NY GOP). We have liars making commercials slandering a guy who actually fought for his country, to help a draft dodger who was snorting so much coke he wouldn't even take the physical he was supposed to. I get so many death threats I stopped counting. People call me a traitor because I don't support W. That one really gets me, when they question my patriotism, like they did to Kerry. Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

As Democrats and other progressive have tried to make civil, logical, reasoned responses to these attacks, we have fallen into the trap to make us look like pussies. I'd like just one of these Chicken Hawk sons of bitches to stand and look Wes Clark in the eye and try that. He doesn't put up with that crap. Maybe it's all those years of being in the military, but he not only puts people in their place when they try to fuck with him like that, he does it forcefully and creatively. I try to do that, but I'm no Rhodes Scholar. Even Howard Dean doesn't take it. Maybe that's why they're attacking him so hard, because they know he's no push-over. He got an A+ from the NRA and that scares them too. He believes in balanced budgets, as opposed to Dick "Deficits Don't Matter" Cheney. Who are the real conservatives anymore?

No, when I think back to civility, I think of my Philosophy classes at the University of Arkansas. Since then, it's all been distortion, lies, vicious attacks, and death threats. It's time we started playing hard ball too.

Scott

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I just created a new section of our Big Bear vacation rental web site that takes advantage or our new vacation packages and travel reservation system. I did some research on vacation rental destinations that people search for, and created some pages where you can make reservations for these popular travel destinations. Even if you're looking for a large family vacation rental, you can find what you need here.

New Scientist Breaking News - Political meddling alleged in US wildlife service

My wife woke me up by shoving this horrifying story into my face when it appeared in the LA Times last week. Once I cleared the cob webs, I was less shocked, and just my usual generally outraged, because this is the reason de etre of the Bush administration. Remember "fuzzy math?"

I'm convinced that this is a direct result of Bush thinking that he's speeding up the second coming of Christ. Who gives a shit about the planet when there's money to be made destroying the environment quickly, before Jesus gets back.

How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?

That's from an old Dire Straits song, from the CD Love over Gold, which seems apt for Valentines Day, if you don't want to send pesticide free flowers from Hawaii. Industrial Disease is one of my favorite songs. And now, in the second term of the worst environmental president in history, it really hits home. Especially the Jesus part.

Two men say they're Jesus
One of them must be wrong

The now infamous Bush quote "God speaks through me" really convinces me that that he is completely nuts. They need to up his dose of prozac. Then when he conveniently ignores all the important things in the New Testament, like the bit about protecting God's creation, at least he might keep his mouth shut about it.

Chicago Tribune | EPA, Interior cutbacks blasted:

"An alliance of several of the nation's leading environmental and conservation organizations charged Wednesday that, when viewed as a whole, President Bush's 2006 budget makes cuts far deeper than those he proposed specifically for the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency.

In short, the groups said the budget stands as 'the most anti-environment budget blueprint ever proposed by his administration.'"

And yet, in all three presidential debates, only one woman, in the second debate, asked a question about the environment. The worst environmental administration in history was given a total pass by the press, and the main-stream opposition. I hope blogging can help change the course of that stream...

Anti-Bush News Archives of Bush Treason and Treachery

I"m having a lot of fun over in my recently redesigned Bush Treason Blog with the Jeff Gannon, gay male prostitute, story. Treason? Well, seems this right-wing plant was smack in the middle of the Valeri Plame outing, just like he may have been smack in the middle of a gay prostitution ring. Pretty damn funny from a guy who constantly berated Kerry for his positions on Gay Rights.

"Go ahead, Jeff": Talon News "reporter" Jeff Ga ... [Media Matters for America]

I'm not a reporter. But I play one in the White House. I could go on for hours, but the other liberal blogs, like the Daily KOS, are saying it all. Like, is this guy a porn star? A male prostitute? One thing's for sure: they loved him in the White House.

White House-credentialed fake news reporter "Jeff Gannon" from fake news agency "Talon News" was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing.

I always figured the Valerie Plame outing would be one of these prick's Watergates. They have lots of others. Wesley Clark hinted at the problems this White House will have with sunshine:

"This administration is trying to do something that ought to be politically impossible to do in a democracy, and that is to govern against the will of the majority. That requires twisted facts, silence, secrecy, and very poor lighting. That's why you need night-vision goggles to see what's going on over there."—General Wesley Clark, US Army (Ret.)

Since this fits into the Bush is committing treason theme, I'll be posting the follow ups at my Bush Treason blog.

WalMart - helping China, hurting America

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Last month Wal-Mart, the largest company in the world, launched a million-dollar advertising campaign attempting to silence critics who point out facts like that in 2001 the average Wal-Mart clerk made just $8.23 an hour - below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

Reliance on public assistance programs in California by Wal-Mart workers costs the state's taxpayers an estimated $86 million annually. (Source: UC Berkeley Study)

It's time to start spreading the real facts: Wal-Mart is big, but they can't outrun the truth.

The Bush Diaries: A Dinner Party, Among Friends

I just had to link to this post, because I couldn't resist commenting on it. Read my comments there. I agree with Peter that the left needs to stop arguing with ourselves. But we shouldn't just cave in to these right wing attacks that are really the reason we lose. We just don't attack Republicans the way they attack us. And that's a shame, because we have more creative people on our side. While we look for a leader who can articulate a progressive vision in a way that a majority of people will vote for (John Edwards, Hillary?), we need to do to them what they do to us. We need to define them as the hypocritical assholes they are. And when we start to do that, it will be obvious that they can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Nobody wants to vote for a wuss. And that's what we are if we don't get right back in the faces of those who lie about us and slander us. How can you expect Americans, who want someone to stand up for them (against terrorists and greedy CEOs), to vote for a party that won't stand up for itself?

Bush Says God Speaks Through Him

I don't know how I missed putting this on my big page of Bush quotes, but it's there now.

"God speaks through me."—Smoketown, Pennsylvania, July 16, 2004 (first reported in the local papers, including the Intelligencer Journal and the Lancaster New Era)

During a recent discussion in one of the newgroups I'm in, I researched and posted a whole slew of Bush quotes about God. Even many left wingers hate atheists, as I've learned. The truly Christian friends I have, who recognize the power of good deeds, even without good faith, are dismayed by the level of hatred I can generate from "Christians" who are pretty liberal.

My problem with them, and probably the reason they get so angry, is that I think that wussy side of the progressive movement in this country has ruined us. We need to be agressive, angry, mean, and nasty, like the Republicans, and we need to be more creative about it than they are. My evidence for why I think this will work? Well, just look at who controls the government. It worked for them, and they don't even have very creative hatchet men. I mean, C'mon! If they can win with Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly on their side, then we should be able to cream them in the nasty competition. Michael Moore and Al Franken have it right. Take it to them hard and mean, and always with the FACTS on our side, because they're a bunch of lying assholes.

Anyway, to get back to the point at hand, here's a whole bunch more fun Bush quotes about his state religion:

"I'm also mindful that man should never try to put words in God's mouth. I mean, we should never ascribe natural disasters or anything else, to God. We are in no way, shape, or form should a human being, play God."—Washington D.C., Jan. 14, 2005

"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."—Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen quoting Bush when they met in Aqaba; reported in The Haaretz Reporter by Arnon Regular

"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."—Sunday, September 16, 2001

"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state."—January 29, 2001

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."—September 20, 2001

"Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies."—January 31, 2001, unaware that a press microphone was on, telling Roman Catholic "faith-based" subsidy supporters that they are "vital allies" because they won't "be eroded by political correctness or whatever," and assuring them that his scheme to give tax money to religious groups will help them promote opposition to legal abortion, at the White House, quoted from Margaret Sykes, "Bush Caught on Tape — Again: Says he'll use tax dollars to help religious groups oppose abortion," About Pro-Choice Views, February 1, 2001

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer."—February 1, 2001 (huh?)

"Our priorities is our faith."—Greensboro, North Carolina, October. 10, 2000

"Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call."—September, 2000

"I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president."—September, 2000

I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore, I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof, in official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of April, 2000."—Jesus Day 2000

For a comprehensive list of idiotic Bush quotes (is that redundant?), visit my George Dumbya Bush page.

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Hainan Island Environmentalist

The LA Times printed a story about Hainan Island Province in China today: Chinese Tree Savior Put Himself Out on a Limb. The story about Xing Yiqian, whose "cash-for-trees strategy has earned him cult status" on Hainan Island. He's struggling to save Hainan Island's environment, but he's broke. He needs donations. But most of all, he needs people to stay at his resort. When I find out what that resort is, I'll tell everyone. The story didn't exactly make it clear how to find him, but it did say that the refuge where he is is called Mingrenshan.

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Supak Blogs for Business Blogs

I"m telling all my search engine optimization and web site marketing clinets that they should start blogging. Since content is, and always has been, king on the internet and the search engines, I have always advised my clients to create more of it. Thanks to blogs, that's a lot easier now.

I have been creating content for my clients for years by providing detailed descriptions of their web sites in the links I create to them. While I'm going to continue doing that, they can start doing it for themselves through their business blogs. At the same time, the business blogs will offer more content to their customers and the search engines to enjoy and reward them for. And, their business blogs will provide ideas for me to use when creating more links to them. Plus, their blog, while hosted through an established blogging service, will be a site about their business that links to their business. The symbiosis of having the business site and the blog site linking to each other can only serve to help on the search engines and in sales.

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Free wallpaper pictures of Big Bear Southern California Ski Slopes

My stagehand friend, Vince Pittman, has a Big Bear rental cabin that he lets us use. It's walking distance to Bear Mountain ski resort, in Big Bear, California. My wife Robin, who can ski circles around me, literally, went to the top of Bear Mountain to take these incredible wallpaper pictures of Big Bear Lake and the surrounding snow-covered mountains. We have all kinds of free backgrounds and computer wallpaper, so check it out!

Folksonomies

A folksonomy is the collaborative categorization of user-generated content using simple tags. Or, in the case of flickr.com, they are a bunch of tags associated with photographs, which makes for a cool way to categorize pictures, in this case. So, when I heard about something new that categorizes pictures, I immediately uploaded some Hawaii pictures to my new flickr account. Pretty cool. The tags make it easy to search the huge amount of pictures they have there. I'll be adding as many as they'll let me.

Bush Osama Bin Forgotten quotes, a study in contrasts:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." — 9/13/01

"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'" —9/17/01

"...Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...."—Crawford TX, 12/28/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."—3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."—3/13/02

"I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."—3/13/02

"Uhh—Gosh, I —don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations." — Tempe, AZ, 10/13/2004

I just added these to my big collection of Bush quotes here.


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Major Simpsons Update

I just spent most of the day updating our Simpsons sounds and Simpsons wallpaper web site. I saw it's been getting a lot more hits lately, so I figured it was long over-due for an update. It's a lot cleaner and easier to navigate now, and I pretty much doubled the number of Simpsons sound bites!

Plus, there are new Simpsons pictures, and new Simpsons stuff to buy, like Simpsons T-shirts, Simpsons posters, and Simpsons DVDs!

Next time I do a major update for the Simpsons, maybe I'll get Jasmine to make some Simpsons wallpaper.

Car Wallpaper Car Pictures

My son Spencer is so proud of his American muscle car pictures, that he had me build a car wallpaper site for him, so he could share them with his friends. Of course, while you're there, you could help out his college fund and buy a few car posters, click on a few google ads, and then download some cool car pictures!

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives

Thank you, Barbara Boxer, for putting some backbone in the progressive party. Thank you for at least ensuring a debate over election fraud. Thank you for standing up for the most basic principal of democracy. Thank you for being a Senator I can be proud of. You have my vote for President.

Jerry Orbach

Jerry was well liked by practically everyone he worked with. He was, despite being a big star of stage, film and television, an average Joe. He always thanked the crew. He would talk to anyone. He reportedly took the buses and subways in Manhattan, where he lived.

When I was doing Lion King in Los Angleles, Danny Rutigliano (who played Timone), a good friend of Jerry's, often spoke well of him, and how they were off to play golf together. I've heard through my stagehand friends downtown here in LA that while he was doing Chicago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion he would have a beer with the guys after the show and play pool, which he was quite good at. He was, I'm sad to say, a dying breed. Here's a quote from him as Detective Lenny Briscoe that seems fitting now, on this day of his passing.

Someone sent me Hollywood: Tinseletown Or Twinkieland
By Barbara J. Stock

My response:

This is such a joke. First of all, Kerry only lost by 119,000 in Ohio, maybe less if they count again, so I wish all you right wing dumbasses would stop acting like it was a landslide. Plenty of people in middle America can relate more to Tom Hanks than they can to George Bush, who was born with a silver spoon up his nose.

Tom Hanks was once a normal man. He's still a nice guy who thanks the crew. George Bush is a rich frat puke who's had every road paved in advance for him. He never had to work hard for anything, to which his grades, and his record, will attest.

Second, I'm getting sick of people who seem to think there is some magical heart of America, as if some asshole in a pick-up with a bible and a shotgun is more American than I am. That's the kind of "we're patriotic and you're not" shit that makes me wonder who the uniters and the dividers really are.

A lot of people actually saw Fahrenheit 9/11. I dare you or any other dumbass rednecks here to tell me one lie in it. You all talk shit about it, but not one of you has been able to articulate one single coherent, specific attack on it. And when you do, I suggest you check Michael Moore's web site. He's rebuked everything anyone has thrown at him. That's why people resort to calling him fat. That's all they got. Mike Moore grew up middle class, which Dubya definitely didn't, unless you count the crappy coke he snorted in Midland. That's as close to middle class as he ever got.

Watch Roger and Me again. Rent "The Awful Truth," his TV show, which is on DVD. I think it's amazing that you sons of bitches will put down a guy who has been defending unions and raging against the plutocracy since he was in high school, and you'll side with a guy who hates unions, wants to privatize the world, and got most of his contributions from Ken Lay and his ilk. You guys are defending a guy who is the opposite of the union working man, and you're trashing a guy who has stood up for the working man.

Just look up plutocracy.

Finally, I wonder if I can print this article, roll it up in a tube, and shove it up this bitch's ass when we do get attacked again. To suggest that George Bush, or attacking a country that even he admitted had nothing to do with 9-11, is why we haven't been attacked again, is the ultimate idiocy. I could list 100 valuable targets that are hardly guarded at all that could cause major economic and human losses if hit. What has Bush done about them? He attacked Iraq. They just snuck a fake bomb on a plane! What has Bush done about that? Spent over $150 billion of my kid's taxes on Iraq (and they still don't have armor). The fact that we haven't been hit again is completely up to the terrorists. Nobody can stop these people from attacking us. There are literally thousands of ways to do it. If anything, Bush has mad it more probable, because he's pissed off even the moderate Arabs. Now they all hate us, which wasn't true before.

If you think privatizing their countries is going to make them like us more, you're a lot dumber than I thought.

And to support Mel Gibson's violent piece of shit over Moore is so ironic. On one hand we have a guy supporting the working man all his life, and on the other a freak cult member who makes the Pope look liberal when he says condoms don't stop AIDS.

What hypocrisy.

Response to some poem about a cold soldier that goes around every year

Happy crappy. What the hell are they defending me from? Honest government? Non-threats? Backwards poor people who's electricity was working too well? Press coverage of domestic problems? A job glut? An over-bloated dollar? All while the real threats were getting worse? All that BS about troops defending me from the horrible bad guy, be it us speaking Russian if we didn't stop North Vietnam, or finding Iraqi WMD by looking for a mushroom cloud over Manhattan, it's bullshit. No American soldier has defended freedom since WWII. Korea, Nam, Iraq, Grenada, Panama? Nope. No threats to us. No threats to freedom. Lots of people dead for nothing. Dead soldiers. Dead children, mothers, fathers, sisters, sons, grandparents. For what? Neo-con global domination? Oil? Israel?

Fuck Christmas.

Be Like Bush: Eat Well in Southern Maine

Long time friend of mine and organic gardening guru Mort Mather has asked me to tell everyone about his son's new restaurant in Wells, Maine. If you can stand to get that close to Kennebunkport and the Bush compound, or if you're a protester who wants to make the Bush family Christmas a middle finger fest for W, you're going to need a good place to eat:

Joshua's is Maine's newest fine dining restaurant featuring fresh organic food made from scratch. The vegetables are freshest in the summer when they come straight out of the Mather gardens planted especially to meet the needs of the restaurant.