Things that amuse or anger me

Pretty much what the title would lead you to expect.
I can hardly tell one bourbon from another, unless the other is very bad. Some bad bourbons are more memorable than good ones. For example, I can recall being broke with some friends in Tennessee and deciding to have a party and being able to afford only two-fifths of a $1.75 bourbon called Two Natural, whose label showed dice coming up 5 and 2. Its taste was memorable. The psychological effect was also notable. After knocking back two or three shots over a period of half an hour, the three male drinkers looked at each other and said in a single voice: “Where are the women?” I have not been able to locate this remarkable bourbon since.

The Claremont Institute - Bourbon, Neat

Walker Percy on Bourbon

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INSIDE STRIKE FIGHTER VENGEANCE 13, over Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

Afghan War Reflects Changes in Air War - NYTimes.com

Today’s most absurd dateline.

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Hosni Mubarak: As president of Egypt, Mubarak bravely upheld the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty against the will of his own people, and also did everything else against the will of his own people. 2011’s Top 5 International Newsmakers | The Onion
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On a world without bowties: “And yet we wouldn’t know who probably has an opinion about Evelyn Waugh. ToBS R2: Calling yourself the editor-in-chief of an online journal vs. bowties | HTMLGIANT
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The sad irony here is that the euro is, in reality, essentially an Italian creation. If you were part of the dialogue in the late 80s and early 90s, it became clear that the euro was best understood as a plot by Italian technocrats to get themselves German central bankers. This was not, it turns out, a good idea. Original Original Sin - NYTimes.com
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the NFL already reads culturally like the result of a right-wing blogger shotgunning a wine cooler and deciding to “make things fabulous.”[Note: The F-15 flyovers, the martial fanfares, the crisp green lawns, the body armor, the commercials in which giant whooshing branding irons burn the low APR of a Chevy Silverado directly onto the screen, etc. It’s as if the guy who invented Branson, Mo., looked at his work and said, “Screw this, I can do better.”] Brian Phillips on religion and Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow - Grantland
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