Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

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

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  1. 1.

    Bella Q

    I beg your pardon, Mr. Cole. Bombay Sapphire is a delightful gin, but then, since you also like vodka, I can understand your inability to savor a good gin. Cheers.

  3. 3.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    that’s alrighty. Sunday is the reckoning, where I reckon if the Browns win, I win, and if Browns lose, I win. There are perks from being awful.

  4. 4.

    jacy

    I always thought that even good gin was just overpriced rubbing alcohol.

    I do like the Bombay ad campaigns though, because I’m shallow that way.

  10. 10.

    J.W. Hamner

    Sapphire is a’ight. I’m a Tanqueray man myself, though I prefer the base model and not the luxury edition (Ten). I admit my palate cannot detect the awesome of endless added botanicals.

  11. 11.

    Anonymous At Work

    Wow, gotta hand it to you, John. The Big East has some of the finest High School football this (displaced) Texan has ever seen.

  12. 12.

    Nied

    Hendricks. I used to drink Bombay Sapphire but my wife and I grabbed a bottle of Hendricks Gin one night on a lark and haven’t looked back. If you’re a Kettle One drinker Hendricks is probably your kind of gin.

  14. 14.

    lamh32

    Darnit, why is it whenever it always seems like whenever I post something OT in one of the other thread, that’s when ya’ll throw up an open thread.

    Obama: Being gay is not a choice…”Children of God”

    Being gay is not a choice, President Barack Obama said Thursday.

    “I am not obviously — I don’t profess to be an expert. This is a layperson’s opinion,” he said at an MTV town hall for young people. “But I don’t think it’s a choice. I think people are born with a certain makeup, and we’re all children of God. We don’t make determinations about who we love. And that’s why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.”

    Video at link.

  15. 15.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    my grand daddy made the family Gin in the bathtub. Always tasted a little soapy to me, but got the job done.

  16. 16.

    Daddy-O

    Sapphire has a rather PEPPERY hot flavor on the tongue. I prefer the original Bombay–rocks with THREE twists of lemon peel.

    Sapphire is cheaper than the original, too–they’re marketing it hard, but the flavor really doesn’t do the job the way the original does. But the BOTTLE…gorgeous, a work of art. The original? With that ugly old portrait of Queen Victoria? Eww.

  18. 18.

    Daddy-O

    @J.W. Hamner: Tanqueray is excellent. Good flavor, sweet-ish, smooth…it may not be restricted to 60 barrels or some such snobbish BS, but there’s a reason it is a CALL drink rather than a WELL drink. Good stuff.

  19. 19.

    Ash Can

    @GG: Ooh, thanks for posting that. I had no idea that outfit existed, and it sounds great. And I’m in Chicago, so I can just head over to Binny’s to get that stuff. Thanks again.

  23. 23.

    GG

    @Ash Can: Yeah, they’ve got it at Binny’s and Whole Foods, and I’m seeing it at a growing number of restaurants in town (Spring and Girl & the Goat, notably). It’s really, really good.

    Between this and the flood of microbrews in the area, we’re getting spoiled big-time.

  24. 24.

    GG

    @MobiusKlein: This stuff is also surprisingly good (the rather high bar being set at “obviously better than Tanqueray”), but you’re right — expensive.

  26. 26.

    MikeJ

    Dry fly gin, imported from the other side of the Cascades, over where everything is hot and flat.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    That reminds me. I have a couple of Tanqueray miniatures around here somewhere. Just the ticket for an early evening drink.

  31. 31.

    MikeJ

    Note that my comment above about Dry Fly gin does not mean I endorse the drinking of clear liquors after labor day[1].

    I’m currently having a Manhattan made with Old Overholt rye, sweet, red Vya, and not one, not two, but three cherries.

    [1] My fastidious adherence to this rule is more honoured in the breach than the observance. But it’s fun to give other people shit about it.

  34. 34.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    @lamh32:

    Of course, the active ingredient in all is alcohol – the other ingredients are just for civilized discussion on blogs

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    @MikeJ:

    Note that my comment above about Dry Fly gin does not mean I endorse the drinking of clear liquors after labor day[1].

    Here’s the deal: my lime tree doesn’t really hit its limish stride until August, which forces requires us to push G&T season well into fall. (w/Boodles fwiw) While it’s been in the 90s all week I expect fall to start anyday now.

  36. 36.

    Mrs. Polly

    So after much counsel, I popped for a small bottle of Sapphire. Exquisitely blue and beautiful. Readied myself for the Negroni of a lifetime. The Bombay grabbed ahold of the Campari and kneed it right in the bitters. Blechh. Froze the gin out with ice. Still, the taste of furniture polish lingered. Soda water helped not at all. Finally, nothing else being around, added orange soda.

    I call the result “Jesus Wept.”

  37. 37.

    MikeJ

    @trollhattan: I also make weather related exceptions. Here it’s 54F and drizzling, so we’re into Manhattan weather. Two days ago when it was sunny and almost 70 I had a martini.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh32:

    Yes, although there are “light” or “white” rums that are clear. But they are uniformly awful, so you don’t need to concern yourself with them.

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    This football game is shaping up as a snoozer. WVU up 10 after one quarter.

    Has anyone been watching Nikita? It got surprisingly good reviews, and I have been DVRing it, but I haven’t watched it yet, and I haven’t seen any buzz or comment. Thinking about purging it from the DVR.

    Ditto with The Event. Have been recording it but haven’t watched it yet. And haven’t heard any buzz. I am deathly afraid that it is a mash-up of Lost and 24. Brr.

  40. 40.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    Not sure how I ran out of Ketel One,

    I think I can crack this case. To the Mystery Machine!

  43. 43.

    Wilson Heath

    @Steeplejack:

    Do Mojitos actually work with dark rum? I’ve had no luck with that so far — came out wrong.

    I usually default to Tanqueray for gin. Sapphire has always seemed like the gin for folks who would cut gin 1/2 and 1/2 with vodka. Prefer normal Bombay, and it never stayed with me as the one to keep company with.

  44. 44.

    Steeplejack

    @Wilson Heath:

    Do Mojitos actually work with dark rum?

    I am mojito-agnostic, so I don’t know. I do think that the more outlandish the drink–and let me specifically say that I don’t think the mojito is (too) outlandish–the less it matters what brand or quality of alcohol you use in it. You are going to be able to tell liquor brand differences in a martini or even a rum and tonic that you wouldn’t pick up in a Singapore Sling or a Zombie (shudder).

  45. 45.

    flukebucket

    I gave South Florida 11 points so this aint no snoozer. It will probably go right down to the wire.

  46. 46.

    cleek

    @Wilson Heath:

    Do Mojitos actually work with dark rum?

    i would not think so. need something a little darker to deal with the deeper flavor.

    mint + molasses ? no way.

    dark rum + hot ginger beer, on the other hand…. yum!

  47. 47.

    The Pale Scot

    Ah, Ketel 1,

    When it first came out I invited a friend over for a game of chess and some lemon drops. After the first batch we decided that it didn’t need the sugar, after the second batch we decided it didn’t need the lemon.
    Needless to say the game never got finished.

    Good times.

  49. 49.

    Tom M

    Wait, you’re complaining about Bombay Sapphire being an overpriced gin because you ran out of Ketel? Good grief, you’re not a snob, you’re crazy.

  50. 50.

    Chris J

    For Gin I would recommend:
    Plymouth for smooth
    Blue Coat for interesting and lively

    For Vodka:
    Chopin

    Good stuff. Getting thirsty now.

  51. 51.

    Bob K.

    Bombay, Tanqueray, Beefeater, et al. are the mass-produced huge luxury conglomerate gin brands.

    Several others have recommended Junipero (by the Anchor Steam people; small batch overproof, highly juniper-y) and Hendrick’s (weird, cucumber-y stuff; great, but not for everyone (as their ad campaign aptly points out)).

    Recommended: Broker’s London Dry. Comes with a little bowler hat (DO NOT pick it up by the hat!). Smooth and complex, made by two blokes (one makes the gin, the other does the books). Also usually about $5 less than Bombay et al.

    Damrak Amsterdam Gin: Not a Genever gin, it’s in a London Dry style, and tastes like violets and roses. Unbelievable.

    Old Raj: From Cadenhead, the Scotch company. About 50 bucks or more a pop. Flavored with (in addition to the usual botanical suspects) saffron. Overproof, two versions (blue and red) with different strengths. Absolutely fantastic, like getting punched in the face and then soothed with an explosion of soft botanicals.

    My $.02. (Used to work in liquor stores for years.)

  52. 52.

    dell

    Sometime, try Broker’s gin.

    For vodkas, I prefer potato-based to grain-based. Chopin, while good, is wwwwaaaayyyyy over-priced. I’m liking Zodiac, out of Idaho, USA.

  54. 54.

    JR

    Gordon’s is consistently good, and mixes better with tonic than just about anything else. I’m a fan of Hendrick’s, but the cucumber thing seems way too pretentious (although, to be fair, I use onion-stuffed olives in my martinis, so who am I to talk?).

  56. 56.

    Mother

    I know “football threads” on mostly socio-political blogs are only for fun, so I didn’t expect much when I opened up this post&comments.

    I have now read every single comment up to the point of commencing my comment.

    Not a single comment about football.

    I’ll guess I’ll have to get creative.

    The Denver Broncos, who drink only pure mountain spring water, will not succumb to the fancy-shmancy, gin-infused Jets this Sunday, because TimTebow and Jesus won’t let it happen. Faith, people!

  57. 57.

    Xenos

    The discount stores here were flooded with ‘Jenever’ over the summer — the original Dutch version of Gin, I think. I can’t read the label in Dutch and don’t dare try it, but it sure was cheap at 3 Euros per bottle. Someone ought to ship that rotgut to NYC and mark it up for the hipsters as the new hard core drink.

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