Showing posts with label alcoholic beverages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcoholic beverages. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Social distancing and the single drinker.

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A very timely reminder: For the past 40 years I've always tried my best, at all times and twice on Sunday, to keep at least 6 feet away...
Monday, May 18, 2020

One thousand times this: "American liquor laws are pretty stupid. And the COVID-19 pandemic gives us a once in a century chance to change them."

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Photo credit: The Atlantic . A pandemic is awful, and it's also an awfully good time to make common-sense reforms. As a preface...
Friday, April 03, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Prohibitionists see an opportunity amid COVID-19's onslaught.

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But riots would violate social distancing, right? Beer writer Andy Crouch, who is from Massachusetts: "Liquor stores are fillin...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Gravity Head's 22nd bacchanal begins on February 28.

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Gravity Head XXII (okay, right on; not the Super Bowl, so "the 22nd running") returns to the NABC Pizzeria & Public House on...
Monday, October 07, 2019

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Hard seltzer? Whatever happened to wine coolers, anyway? Can't it just be beer-thirty every day?

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I can't bring myself to post an image of a "hard seltzer," and so here's a delicious boot of  Weihenstephaner Festbier. ...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

"The rise of the teetotal student," and what Mencken might say about it.

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H.L. Mencken once commented on teetotalism. Teetotalism does not make for human happiness; it makes for the dull, idiotic happiness of...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter (the 2019 Gravity Head remix).

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ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter (the 2019 Gravity Head remix). A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. --- ...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Dear antifa: Can you include these teetotaling medical researchers in your next action?

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Origins of the word (teetotalism) are interesting, indeed, but in this time of health fascists and killjoys, we turn to a fellow who under...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Beer and coffee: "Write drunk, edit sober" — Ernest Hemingway.

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Photo credit. It's an old article, but a timeless one; thanks to J for the link. This is why pubs should have espresso machines. ...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter.

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ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter.  A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Col. Sherman T. Potter: I gather...
Friday, August 19, 2016

When Bob Caesar's numb council patter is the problem, the iFlask is your cherished antidote.

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This might be the best idea ever: The iFlask . iFlask is the world's first ever "smart" flask. At a glance It looks just...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Coomes on waterside drinking.

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There is an "eye of the beholder" aspect to all this, which probably makes sense. What doesn't make sense are the layers upon ...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Sobriety -- now there's your social awkwardness.

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I needed a drink just to read this piece of health fascist propaganda below). After all, it's after 12  ... okay, it's almost noon...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Dr. Tom drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm so indebted to him for.

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As we await learned Floyd County Health Department instruction as to the proper amount of head for crowning a draft beer, here is a consider...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Indiana alcohol legislation, teetotaling and "public safety."

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Yes, Representative Bill Davis is serious: If small brewers were to sell closed containers of craft beer at farmers markets (as farmhouse wi...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

"Rich Inner Substance" at io9.

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Rob and Karen pointed me to this collection of Soviet anti-alcohol posters at io9 , of which there are so many that we might establish a ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Legislative libations 2: Sunday alcohol sales, with a huge question mark attached ...

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Chris Sikich of the IndyStar  provides an overview of this year's model, i.e., Sunday alcohol sales legislation, and it's one of the...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Riverfront three-ways: Alcoholic beverages vs. square meals?

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Earlier today, the discussion turned to legal esoterica, and as I should have known, it wouldn't be simple. CeeSaw whiffs on a fat pi...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Open Air conditioning mechanisms."

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Alongside the remainder of the annual Harvest Homecoming, Fringe Fest at Bank Street Brewhouse opens today at 2:00 p.m. I decided to leave ...
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Sunday, May 02, 2010

No more election day blue law tomfoolery in Indiana.

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For as long as I've been blogging, primary and general election days have been dry, at least until the polls closed at 6:00 p.m. It alwa...