I Spent Wednesday Evening with a Bottle of Gin and a Pile of Old Magazines, Wasting Time on a Stupid Task
It was a delightful waste of time.
Topic
Drinking
A collection of 28 issues
Neo-Prohibitionists Now to Turn to Science
The Anti-Neo-ProhibitionistsActually, I don't believe my own title, but the
entire flip-floppy nature of scientific research regarding the effects of
alcohol should discredit science in general. One study says a little alcohol
helps; another says it hurts. One says small amounts help the heart; others say
that'
These May Be The World's Most Unusual Booze Brands
Arkhi Vodka
Once upon a time in ancient Mongolia, the nomadic horse tribes began fermenting
mares' milk to make a drink called airag, a product similar to the drink we know
as kefir. At some point, they started taking this fermented mares' milk and
distilling it to make
Dorothy Parker was a Brilliant Slut and Four Other Sundries to Entertain Your Friends at the Bar Tonight
The godfather of modern libertarianism, Albert Nock, was in his prime during Prohibition. Needless to say, he railed against it, noting once that it’s absurd to regulate something that, in nature, flows as freely as water.
He’s right, of course. And the fact that it flows as freely
English Drunks, Both Fictional and Not
I linked to The Guardian’s obituary of Wilfrid Sheed (1940-2011) yesterday. Sheed’s first book was A Middle Class Education (1960), which was apparently semi-autobiographical, much like Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.
The Guardian notes that there’s a lot of drinking in Middle Class:
Owing more to Kingsley
How Alcohol Fuels Civilization
Gonna pick me up a six-pack of art this evening
Marshall McLuhan made himself a household name, writing about media. Media are tools, things that extend ourselves: a hammer extends our fist, flashlights extend our eyes, etc.
I'm not sure he ever considered whether alcohol might be a
When Drunkenness is a Mortal Sin Redux
Aquinas appears to make it pretty hard to get so drunk that inebriation, by
itself, is mortal
A reader sent this link to me. Is getting drunk a sin?
[https://www.catholiccompany.com/getfed/is-getting-drunk-a-sin/]
The site’s conclusion: Yup, getting drunk is a serious sin.
But the site doesn’
My Family Calls it "Exercise Bulimia"
People who work out regularly and are aerobically fit tend to guzzle a
surprising amount of alcohol, according to a new study, well timed for the
holidays,
[https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2022/01000/Fit_and_Tipsy__The_Interrelationship_between.15.aspx]
of the interplay between fitness, exercise and
The Biggest Bar Night of the Year is Here
Just don't call it "Blackout Wednesday"
It’s here!
Black Wednesday 2021.
My erstwhile traveling companion has the COVID, so he won’t be joining me, but
I’ll have three sons in tow, thereby smashing the previous record held by my Dad
(one son . . . me)
Hey, Another List Article!
I like lists, but the world of digital prose relies on them way too much. According to medium.com, articles that say, “Seven Things You Should Do Before You Die” or “Ten Signs Your Spouse is Cheating on You” or “19 Signs Your Genitals are Falling Off,” get more clicks.