Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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  1. 1.

    Mary

    Ah — one of my favourite Niagara wineries! If you like crisp whites, you might also try their Pinot Grigio. It’s a little fruitier than a Sauvignon, but nowhere near as florid as a Chardonnay.

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    Krista

    I’m drinking some vintage Busch Light tonight!

    You’re drinking Stephen Harper? Yucky.

    I am currently enjoying a glass of Shiraz that I made and bottled myself 6 months ago, which has started to age quite nicely.

    And John, don’t try balancing the bottle on your belly. It could be tragic.

  8. 8.

    nyrev

    Busch Light? Just get a straw and blow bubbles in your tap water. It’s cheaper, the taste and buzz are about the same, and at least you’ll get some fluoride.

  10. 10.

    AkaDad

    Busch Light? Just get a straw and blow bubbles in your tap water. It’s cheaper, the taste and buzz are about the same, and at least you’ll get some fluoride.

    LOL

  11. 11.

    baltar

    There is no way you bought this in Morgantown. I’ll swallow a live goldfish if you did.

    Where did this come from? If you did get it here, what store (so I can find the distributor and get some)?

    Anyway, sounds good. I’ll have to give it a try. My take on Canadian wine is that it tends to be good, but overpriced (I’m not looking to start a flamewar; that’s just my experience).

  12. 12.

    Mary

    Overpriced for a while or overpriced just recently? Our dollar’s been creeping up over the past few months, so cross-border bargains aren’t what they used to be.

  13. 13.

    Dave Ruddell

    Yes Virginia, you can get good wine from Ontario (and BC). I would suggest that you look for the VQA designation (as the bottle John so enjoyed has). Are Canadian wines generally widely available in the US? I don’t remember seeing any when I lived in North Carolina, but then again, I don’t drink wine.

  15. 15.

    ImJohnGalt

    Ice wine is one of the things that Niagara vineyards are most well-known for. They’ve won many medailles d’ors in French competitions, and are rather pricey both due to their unique (sweet) flavour and their rarity.

    They are made from grapes that are picked after they have frozen on the vine (which, as you might imagine requires some rather unique growing conditions). They are pressed while still frozen, resulting in a concentrated juice that is very high in sugar content.

    It’s too sweet for me, but I have it on good authority that it makes a phenomenal dessert wine. One of the more well known is made by a vineyard named “Inniskillen”.

  16. 16.

    Krista

    There’s also Jost Vineyards, in Malagash, Nova Scotia. They won Canada’s Wine of the Year in 2000 for their 1999 Vidal Icewine. I’ve had it. I’m not a fan of sweet wines, but that stuff is pure ambrosia. Their wines have actually won a lot of Canadian and International awards. But if Canadian wine is underrated and unknown, then Nova Scotian wine is their red-headed stepchild. They don’t yet ship to the U.S., but any fellow Canadians reading this: give it a try. It’s damned good stuff.

  17. 17.

    Johno

    Since we’re doing shout-outs to wineries in unlikely places, I also have to give a nod to my homeboys at Chateau Debonne’, in frigging Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie. Ohio wine?

    Sure!

    Although most of their offerings are sickly sweet Reislings and Catabwa-based vintages (which makes sense considering both the cold climate and the undeveloped state of most Ohio wine drinkers’ palates), they make two worthy wines. One is “Country Selections Red,” which is a basic table wine with nice round shoulders and loads of currant, cherry, and apricot flavors, and the other is their Pinot Gris, which, though its flavor profile is more like Sav Blanc, green, slightly tart and with a limestone edge, is surprisingly deep and well balanced for a $12 bottle of wine from frigging Ohio.

    Each time I’m home in Ohio, I try to pick up a half-case or so of one or the other. I have even managed to impress some bona fide wine collectors out here in Boston with the quality of the Pinot Gris. So there you go… Massachusetts liberals love it! It can’t fail!

    That is all.

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