Showing posts with label booze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label booze. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Ken Burns on really, really bad ideas

We're a little late to the party with this one but Nick Gillespie of Reason.tv sits down to talk to Burns about his three-part documentary, Prohibition, the last leg of which airs tonight on PBS. (Video: 13 minutes)




Slavery was our worst idea. I'm not sure I'd put prohibition second but it's really up there.



What struck us is that Prohibition was enabled by probably the broadest and most diverse political coalitions of social conservative and progressive factions ever assembled in American politics. We suppose that if you are going to ban booze in this great country of ours, you'd better have all your bases covered.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

But is that all included?



Just consider this our contribution to the housing crisis here north of the border.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Quickies



Strange and dare we say, intentionally misleading MSNBC article titled, “Bush administration ignored clear warning” regarding the financial crisis and provided only the following to make its case: “Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories,” California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job." Alrighty, then.

Maybe it’s their bad teeth. Simon Warr, the chairman of the British Lap Dancing Association, hoping to dodge some licensing difficulties had this to say with a presumably straight face while at a legislative hearing and being questioned on the specific intent of lap dancing: "All right, the entertainment may be in the form of nude or semi-nude performers, but it's not sexually stimulating."

And now it is time for the airing of grievances. Tree not up, lights not up - Yeah, for whatever reasons (well, we know a couple) we just aren’t feeling the Christmas spirit this year. Call it Fatigue fatigue. So in lieu of the traditional how about a little Festivus? Cyber Tuesday shopping here.

After reading about a diverted flight from San Salvador to LAX that sat on the tarmac in Ontario for 9-1/2 hours on Sunday because of fog at LAX we were reminded of some soul-searching the airlines did to combat the problems of keeping the passengers onboard the plane during extended tarmac timeouts. All this navel-gazing accomplished nothing as the airlines and some goofy passenger bill of rights ignored the obvious.



Folks, chilling out the natives isn’t really all that difficult when common sense logic and fermentation are applied. How this wasn’t even brought up as a possible solution was baffling.