This may inspire a hearty chorus of “duh!” but I just discovered that sun isn’t strictly necessary when cold brewing tea in a pitcher.  I put the water and tea bags in a pitcher on the counter of my depressingly dark kitchen and wandered off without putting it near a window.  A couple of hours later the tea was brewed, and (as Luzianne decaf always is) tasty.  Am I the last person in the south to have discovered this phenomenon?

They say -

The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.

Newsbuster’s response is going to leave a mark.

Oh, and and that phrase, “oral history” – I don’t think it means what they think it means, given that they didn’t podcast or otherwise record it.

And by disgraceful I mean the Protestant stats, not the Catholic ones. ONLY 25% of Evangelical Christians read the Bible on a daily basis along with 20% of other Protestants.