Posts Tagged ‘Alcohol’
Miller Time on Hold in Russia
So its not an outright prohibition but the Russian government wants its citizens to drink less, a lot less. President Dmitry Medvedev want to curb what he call his country’s “colossal drinking” by 72% through price controls and a crackdown on bootlegged vodka. The government will regulate vodka prices, banning stores from charging less than [...]
Congressman Duncan Hunter Fears The Transgender Army
U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) took time out from the Don't Ask, Don't Tell hearings to explain his position to the National Public Radio audience. Somehow interviewer Melissa Block kept a straight face. BLOCK: You are not in favor of a repeal of don't ask, don't tell. Why not? Rep. HUNTER: No, because I think that its bad for the [...]
Drilling for 100 year old Scotch whiskey in Antarctica
How far would you go for a drink? To the kitchen? To the bar up the street? Try Antarctica, that's how far distillers Whyte and Mackay are willing to go. The beverage company has asked a excavation team to drill through Antarctica's ice for two crates of McKinlay and Co. Scotch whiskey that were shipped there by British polar explorer Sir [...]
Canadian Genius Mulled by Tiger
Why do all of these animal attack stories have common elements? Yet again we have the requisite: alcohol, young people, and the breaking and entering a secured animal habitat. I drink quite a bit and I've been to a zoos. And yet it has never occurred to me during a drunken haze to go get up close and personal with a jungle cat. The [...]
Chambord on the Plains (Pt 2 of 2)
The next day, we arrived in the trailer park just before I completely lost feeling in my legs from having the computer riding on my lap. I had never been in a trailer park before or since and here's why-- It was like arriving in a village deep in the Amazon. As we pulled in, the villagers came out of their trailers with varying degrees of [...]
Chambord on the Plains (Pt 1 of 2)
Once upon a time I went on a five month bender with a co-worker/partner-in-crime. Let's call her Ellen. Ellen was inches away from completely being the poster girl for poor white trash. She was obsessed with having a hot car and a big TV but nevertheless she lived in an efficiency. The rent was only $250 a month [...]
