Western civilization's crowning achievement?

Finally, after so many false starts and disappointments, the true convergence of beer and chocolate.

Death as a metaphor

The main theme of the death of Sontag is not discourse per se, but postdiscourse. Her estate will no doubt promote the use of the subconstructivist paradigm of discourse to rook the funeral home.

Hat tip for the drivel above to The PostModernism Generator . Bottom line: Susan Sontag has left the building. She died today, at 71, after a battle with leukemia.

YAGBS*

"Chocolate-makers have long mixed liqueurs into their creations. Now, a Chicago candy-maker has come up with a twist on the classic pairing -- beer-flavored chocolates. Chocolatier Katrina Markoff infuses her latest truffles with Jamaican Red Stripe beer and tops the dark-chocolate spheres with crushed cocoa nibs."

Mmm, Mmm, good. Hat tip, as friggin' always, to Fark.

* Yet Another Gratuitous Beer Story.