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Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout: Repeat after me: there are better stouts than Guinness. Besides a slick ad campaign and nitrogenating capsules in each bottle, bottled Guinness has little going for it. On tap, Guinness is richer. Bottled, Guinness loses the rich chocolate and smoky tastes it is known for. Pub Nights should offer a non-mass produced stout that is nonetheless smooth and accessible to the casual beer drinker. Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout stands out here. In contrast to Guinness, this oatmeal stout attacks your senses. Its rich chocolaty aroma gives way to strong...
...wisdom, it rarely allows them to build the camaraderie that an old cowhand like Gabby Hayes exuded with no sweat. Agreeable but never compelling, Silverado proves it takes more than love of the western to make a good one. Maybe the dudes at K-Tell were a mite too slick for the job. --By Richard Corliss
...nearly perfect song—brilliant beat, slick chorus, and repeated references to the classic cartoon “Underdog,” which Amerie’s “One Thing” sadly lacks. Guess that’s the end of that “theme” for this week’s Uncharted Waters...
...retirement. Even if the average worker would benefit from private accounts (which may or may not happen), there will be many, many workers whose private accounts would under perform, costing them thousands in retirement. Social Security is meant to be a guaranteed retirement foundation for all retirees, not a slick investment scheme, where every senior on the wrong side of the stock market’s bell curve is left to starve on the street. That was the situation Social Security was designed to remedy, and privatization would break that promise...
Craving more than monochrome? The display's the thing on Toshiba's Gigabeat MEG F20--a gorgeous, 2.2-in. color screen that can crisply handle JPEG images, slick menu icons and even animated graphics that pulsate in synch with your music. Unlike the Sony and Apple players, which are closely bound to the companies' Sony Connect and iTunes Music Store, the Gigabeat can download songs from most music sites, and there's a forthcoming $449 version with an enormous 60 GB of memory...