In the US, it is time to start blowing stuff up and setting stuff on fire, because we are so patriotic!
Here is the science of sparklers, to keep it interesting:
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Wanna try your hand at making some homemade sparklers? Its easy!
(How to do it below the fold!)
Happy 4th of July, however you'll be spending it. I'll be watching the hotdog-eating contest on TV, going to get a couple Coney dogs myself, and then fireworks of course!
An e-droog recently waxed poetic about a single malt Scotch that she gave to a friend on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday. If I recall correctly, this was an especially rugged Islay beast, and stronger than the infamous Laphroaig.
Rebecca over at Memoirs of a Skepchick makes an excellent argument against the new HPV vaccine:
I remember my sisters being burned by sparklers when they were young and one's dress going up in flames on the 4th of July.
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