Mind your beans

Published 6:35 pm Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Black, no sugar: Good Life writer Ron Ramey gives us the skinny half-caff latte on roasting your own coffee beans in your oven. Do it yourself and you can save $3 a pound or more.

This also allows you to control how dark you like your coffee, from a light body to mellow medium to dark chocolate to smoky burnt toast to Starbucks.

How about a birthday spanking? On this day in 1913, the 16th Amendment was put into effect, giving Congress the power to collect income taxes.

So, when you send off your 1040A form, don’t forget to include a card wishing 16th Amendment a Happy 96th Birthday. The other amendments pretty much ignore him, except for 21, who at least takes him out for a drink.

Be vewy, vewy qwiet: A Marysville Middle School student has learned that science advances even when experiments fail. Her was a maze for her pet rabbit. But the rabbit wouldn’t run the maze.