Glad someone had the same thought I had. I actually drank both recently while in the US (I live in Europe). Sam Adams isn't a beer that you're going to claim is the best beer ever, but it is quite respectable, IMHO. I drank the High Life because there was a bunch extra after a wedding and I was curious as to just how bad it was. It tastes like a maybe ok pils that somebody cut half and half with water. Not good at all.

Not sure about your other points, but the point about eliminating the Bush tax cuts is on the money:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-to-halve-the-deficit-by-doing-nothing/2011/03/25/AFXb0RoB_blog.html

Now let the real fight, over the 2012 budget, start.

The problem with all of these proposals is that nobody can get over ideology enough to actually hammer out how to solve fiscal problems. This fight got stuck on a piddling amount of money for Planned Parenthood. There was also a bunch of wrangling about the EPA.

I expect more of the same when it comes to arguing about the Ryan plan. He's started things in the wrong direction already, by wanting to cut taxes on the rich and turn Medicare into a block grant program. And all of the really ugly details ala Planned Parenthood and the EPA aren't even in his proposal. He just says that discretionary spending is going to be cut, but doesn't say how. So there will be more fights like we just saw.

NPR got some experts to use various techniques to analyze the flow. They came up with numbers around a factor of 10 higher than the 5000 bpd estimate.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525

Sad indeed (to the point where I feel guilty for using xemacs....). But it doesn't strike me as something that somebody would say because they haven't been appreciated enough. Rather, it sounds like he's clinically depressed. When you're that sad, it's not for a logical reason....

A Google search on:

javascript array sort

gives exactly the bogus answer that Microsoft used in the top hit.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, a bing search gives the same top hit.

Somebody should mod the parent up (red=ECAL, blue=HCAL). The color legend is confusing because some colors are repeated. I think that's what got the guy confused who originally posted the link.

Almost nothing of value has happened in the field (especially in the US) since the SSC was canned.

I disagree

The bundling together of unrelated discoveries is weird, and I feel like it diminishes the impact of the prizes a bit in the public eye. (Instead of explaining one seminal discovery to the public, you have to explain two, and make it clear that they are not even related.) If anything, Nambu should have received his own prize, and then KM could have shared one with Cabibbo. But there are only a finite number of years, and particle physics only gets a prize at all every few years, so it is hard to reward all of the deserving subjects (if not people) without this type of bundling.