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Topic
Drinking
A collection of 31 issues
Join Me As We Drink Like Pansies
The gin and tonic is surging in the United States. That's great, but the reasons for its surge are emasculating.
How to Drink Like an Occultist
Add lavender, pineapple Gomme, Rihei ginger Schochu, and cacao; congratulate yourself for having such a fine set of taste buds; then sip like the submissive homosexual you are.
Black Wednesday Arrives
I haven't missed it since turning 21. Even in 2020 when the bars were shut down, I opened a bar in my basement, complete with lots of hand sanitizer and two air purifiers. Funny, not too many people came, but those who did, got great burgers from a local bar that needed the business.
All Alcohol is Bad for You, Until It's Not
Scientists can't draw a circle any better than a retard using his left hand. In fact, they're worse at it. He can at least make curves. Scientists? Their only tool is the straight line.
BYCU: Bands that Sell-Out to Beer
Later addendum: John Densmore's excellent The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial is only $2.99 on Kindle.
5 Band Beers
1. Dogfish Head Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale (5.3% ABV)
2. Juice Runners Paloma Remix (5.9% ABV)
3. Hanson Brothers Beer
Five Reasons to Drink at the Bar
In the twilight of Western civilization, where the sterile grip of the left hemisphere has throttled the soul out of our culture, the pub stands as a defiant outpost of human connection against the gnostic tide.
The churches once held the line too, but many—mainline Protestants, Jesuits, and their
A Local Bar is a Good Place to Be
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a splendid ode to local bars last week
[https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2022/01/09/A-good-place-to-be-A-local-bar-can-be-more-than-a-place-to-get-a-drink/stories/202201090022]
. Two people, neither from Pittsburgh, recommended it to me.
It's the type of thing that could only be written by someone with a Catholic
Parliament Created the 18th-Century’s Great Gin Craze
“[N]oe sort of Brandy Aqua vite or other Spirits or distilled Waters of any Kingdome Country or place whatsoever shall after the said foure and twentyeth day of August be imported into the Kingdoms of England or Ireland . . .”.
If you read the Wikipedia entries about England’s Great Gin
Night Train: An American Legend
The tent city crisis continues. It was even the subject of a recent Econtalk episode, in which the guest explained that the tent cities result from fentanyl-laced meth, which makes users paranoid, so they want to be in an enclosed space (a tent), but when they’re not under the