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Sin Stocks a Good Bet

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:55:36 GMT

clipped by: Tom Van Riper
clipper's remarks: What to do when times are tough? Double up on life's vices, of course. That makes sellers of booze and tobacco happy.

Clip Source: www2.tbo.com

As a global recession looms, what better way to cope than to eat, drink and be merry?

Sin stocks, ranging from gambling to liquor, are usually a safe bet in hard times. Although shares in some of those companies have fallen along with stock exchanges this year, many are still seeing strong revenue and sales.

Booze and Belly Fat: So, What CAN I Drink?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:49:44 GMT

clipped by: pitim
clipper's remarks: 1) Margarita in a pint glass (2 oz. tequila, 2 oz. margarita/sour mix, 1 oz. triple sec, lime juice, 1 tsp. sugar) - 550 calories

2) Mudslide (1.5 oz. coffee liqueur, 1.5 oz. Irish cream, 1.5 oz. vodka) - 417 calories

Clip Source: myitthings.com

It’s summer and I know as well as you do that summer brings parties, BBQ’s and get-togethers. With all the bridal showers, bachelorette parties, and post-baseball trips to the bar, indulging in alcoholic drinks is something most of us like to do.

So how do we avoid sabotaging the hard work we’ve been doing?

Here’s a list of drinks to help keep your damage in check:

1) Rum & Diet Coke - if you can stand the aspartame, this one is only 65 calories.

2) Vodka & Soda - also 65 calories. Try it with flavored vodka to make it taste better!

3) White wine spritzer - 4 oz of white wine topped with soda - 80 calories.

4) Bloody Mary (1 oz. vodka, 4 oz. tomato juice, dash of Tabasco and pepper) - 90 calories

5) Lite beer - my favorite is Corona Light with a wedge of lime. 100 calories.

Having just one or two of the wrong drink can pack in a lot of unwanted calories. To give you an idea of the worst drinks to have:

Tags: health, nutrition, weight loss, alcohol

Drunken skiing... In the Olympics?

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:36:47 GMT

clipped by: skopp
clipper's remarks: "Wheeee! Hahahaha Tihs is fun...."
*takes a swig from his flask*

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

5. Bode Miller's meltdown (Torino 2006)
The blunder: Bode Miller was arguably the most hyped U.S. athlete for the 2006 Winter Games, scoring huge advertising deals with Nike and Visa, among others. Then he engaged in a torrent of bad behavior, admitting to drinking booze while skiing and then downplaying the importance of Olympic competition. Some of these comments might have been forgotten or forgiven if Miller had won a single medal.

Tags: drunk, skiing

Legalize the shit

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:17:18 GMT

clipped by: pkronfield
clipper's remarks: I don't use the stuff... but look at history. Prohibition encouraged the illegals to produce and transport booze. Legalize marijuana and all this nonsense will cease. Look at Holland for an example. Liberals must be making the decisions in this matter.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Beyond the towering trees that have stood here for thousands of years, an intense drug war is being waged.

Illegal immigrants connected to Mexico's drug cartels are growing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marijuana in the heart of one of America's national treasures, authorities say. It's a booming business that, federal officials say, feeds Mexico's most violent drug traffickers.

"These aren't Cheech and Chong plants," said John Walters, director of the National Drug Control Policy. "People who farm now are not doing this for laughs, despite the fact Hollywood still thinks that. They're doing it to make a lot of money."

Walters spoke from a "marijuana garden" tucked deep into the Sequoia National Forest

Tags: marijuana, loony left

The Five Best Bottles of Absinthe

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:50:34 GMT

clipped by: William Hung
clipper's remarks: The government never banned absinthe itself but rather thujone, the wormwood-derived compound that supposedly gives the stuff its mind-bending edge. However, modern chemical analysis shows that thujone survives distilling in quantities so small they are actually legal. This is something of a double-edged sword: That same analysis also shows that the old brands that spawned absinthe’s dark legend didn’t have all that much thujone, either -- all along it was just really strong, herb-flavored booze. Plus, half the excitement of absinthe was the fact that it was contraband. Now anyone can get it.

Clip Source: www.esquire.com

We’re talking real, honest-to-Satan absinthe, not some lame-ass substitute.

The Five Best Absinthe

1. Versinthe ($55) The only one of these in which the anise dominates, and at 90, the lowest in proof, this is nevertheless a good training-wheels absinthe.

2. Mansinthe ($65) Marilyn Manson not only has impeccable taste in women, he’s a fine judge of absinthe, too -- as this, made in Switzerland to his taste, demonstrates.

3. St. George Absinthe Verte ($75) A nontraditional blend of herbs makes this, the only domestic absinthe on our list, something of an acquired taste. Worth checking out, anyway.

4. Top pick: Vieux Pontarlier ($65) An absolutely classic French absinthe. As good as it gets.

5. Pernod Absinthe, shown at top ($65) Pernod was the leading brand of absinthe before the ban. Now it’s back, and it’s clean, balanced, and tasty.

Tags: booze

Former NFL pro Danny Abramowicz to host new EWTN television show

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:29:47 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

Clip Source: www.sportsecyclopedia.com

Clip Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

Irondale, AL, Aug 4, 2008 / 08:22 am (CNA).- Former NFL all-pro wide receiver and coach Danny Abramowicz has created a television show which uses a sports show format to encourage men to get themselves into spiritual shape.

The show, called “Crossing the Goal,” was created in conjunction with the EWTN Global Catholic Network. Segments include “The Kickoff,” where the problem of the day is presented; “The Game Plan,” where two hosts examine the facts relevant to the topic; “The Red Zone,” where the hosts talk about how they’ve dealt with the problem in their own life; and “The End Zone,” where each host gives the audience something to think about for the week in hopes of providing real solutions to the spiritual challenges men face.

The former NFL pro, who played for the New Orleans Saints and the San Francisco 49ers, has admitted to being a former “party boy” whose life revolved around booze and his ego. He said he has high hopes for the show.

Tags: catholicism, sports, eternal word, saints

WTF?

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:06:36 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Ok, this is funny, but keep those "straight" girls away from me please!!!!

I think I agree with the author that they have the potential to offend! Besides, sleeping with your best friend is kinda, well . . . icky.

"Don't sleep with your drummer" sounds so much more profound to me.

Clip Source: search.barnesandnoble.com

"You can't swing a dead cat at a bridal shower without hitting a straight chick who's slept with another woman, who's thought about it, or who's ready to make the move as soon as someone breaks out the booze."

Such are the incisive pearls of wisdom to be heard from straight chick and girl-on-girl dabbler Jen Sincero, author of The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks. A deliciously sexy how-to guide, it gives curious straight women the complete inside scoop on girl-on-girl action

Drawing on personal experience and hundreds of interviews with straight girls who've slept with lesbians, straight girls who've slept with straight girls, lesbians who've slept with straight girls, and straight girls who've done both or neither,

Boozing Mammal Drinks "Beer" Every Night, Study Finds

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:29:00 GMT

clipped by: pussycatdoll

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

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Malaysia's pen-tailed tree shrew (above) regularly drinks fermented palm "beer," which in turn helps pollinate the palms' flowers, scientists reported in July 2008.

Since the tiny mammal is related to primate ancestors, the find also suggests humans' taste for alcohol may have begun well before the believed advent of brewing about 9,000 years ago.

Clip Source: news.nationalgeographic.com

A taste for naturally fermented palm "beer" has turned a tiny Malaysian mammal into a chronic boozer, a new study shows.

The pen-tailed tree shrew is the first non-human mammal known to display alcoholic behavior.

What's more, the rat-size animal never gets drunk during its nonstop jungle jamborees.

(Read: "Elephants Drunk in the Wild? Scientists Put the Myth to Rest" [December 19, 2005].)

The flowers of the bertam palm produce nectar which naturally ferments—with the aid of several yeast species—to a 3.8 percent alcohol strength, similar to that of many beers.

Tags: animal booze

Exploring the Effect of Alcohol on Crowd Dynamics

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:36:38 GMT

clipped by: unbelievers
clipper's remarks: Psychologically Informed Particle Models of Crowd Behavior

Clip Source: www.vrg.cf.ac.uk

Moore, S. C., Flajšlik, M., Rosin, P. L. & Marshall, D. (in press). A particle model of crowd behavior: Exploring the relationship between alcohol, crowd dynamics and violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior, doi: 10.1016/j.avb.2008.06.004

These are example animations.

100% drunk

50% drunk

0% drunk

Tags: crowds, booze

myopenbar.com: your guide to free booze - San Francisco editon

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:31:53 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: sf.myopenbar.com

ALSO IN: NEW YORK CITY - LOS ANGELES - CHICAGO - HONOLULU - NEW: MIAMI - MOBILE ART BY: HOPE GANGLOFF

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Tags: bars, beverages, san-francisco, frugal

lvender linen water

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:33:10 GMT

clipped by: Loca_Margarita

Clip Source: www.curbly.com

To make Lavender Linen Water for spraying on sheets or other linens before/during/after ironing,
You'll need:

Half a teaspoon (50 drops) of lavender essential oil

3-5 drops peppermint spearmint or rosemary essential oil (optional)

1 oz vodka

1 and a half cups of distilled water (from the drug store)

Sterilize a glass container (a big pasta sauce jar would work well) by pouring some boiling water into it and leaving it for a few minutes then:

Mix the essential oils and booze together in the jar, shaking them like it ain't no thing

Add the water and shake some more.

When you're ready to use it you can either decant it into a plastic spray bottle or (more satisfyingly) flick it onto your linens with your fingers. The mixture will cloud over time and eventually separate, hence the slightly smaller batch size.

Elderly Don't Need As Much Sleep (still lousy sleepers though)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:26:51 GMT

clipped by: MyNameIsLuka

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Old people are known to be lousy sleepers, but a new study suggests it might all be in their heads, at least for many of them.

Medications, poor health, bad bedtime habits (such as watching a movie or drinking coffee or booze), circadian rhythms, and too much or too little in their personal "sleep bank" have all taken the blame for seniors' common complaints of insomnia.

Elizabeth Klerman of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School set out to clear it up once and for all with a controlled study of 18 subjects ages 60 to 76 and 35 younger subjects, ages 18 to 32, all healthy and not on medication that might affect sleep. Even people who had crossed more than one time zone in the past 3 months were disqualified, as well as those who had worked night or rotating shifts in the past three years.

The bottom line was that the seniors simply needed less sleep — about 1.5 hours less.

Tags: elderly, sleep

Prohibition Revisited ?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:13:24 GMT

clipped by: biverson

Clip Source: government.zdnet.com

July 21st, 2008

Posted by Richard Koman @ July 21, 2008 @ 8:11 AM

Sunday’s installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down notices.

Lessig’s point was that today’s copyright laws are effectively Prohibition 2.0. Read the above comment substituting “drinking” for “using copyright material.” Just as in prohibition, we have outlawed basic behavior — the urge for a drink, the urge to comment on some aspect of our culture. And the effect, he warns, may be the same. In the 1930s, society saw their basic desires criminalized and they further saw rife corruption, taking advantae of the legal status of alcohol. Everybody obtained booze: everybody was a criminal. The sheriffs and g-men were criminals too; they took their “piece of the action.”

May We Mock, Barack?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:25:12 GMT

clipped by: reddogiedog

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

May We Mock, Barack?

By MAUREEN DOWD

When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them.

“It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of than these guys,” I said.

Then he and Colbert both said at the same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!”

When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.

Many of the late-night comics and their writers — nearly all white — now admit to The New York Times’s Bill Carter that because of race and because there is nothing “buffoonish” about Obama — and because many in their audiences are intoxicated by him and resistant to seeing him skewered — he has not been flayed by the sort of ridicule that diminished Dukakis, Gore and Kerry.

Tags: dems, liberals

Millionaire Drinking Marvel

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:06:40 GMT

clipped by: Andrew Farrell
clipper's remarks: 1.5 gallons of wine a day. That's seven to eight bottles every 24 hours. That puts a frat boy to shame.

Clip Source: www.ajc.com

Millionaire began day with breakfast, then booze

The mistress of a heavy drinking man who left her $6 million said she never knew how much her significant other of eight years drank, but she knew it was a lot.

"He would start after breakfast," said Anne Melican, who is fighting in a Cobb County courtroom for a share of the $38 million left by car-sales wizard Harvey Strother.

When Strother, 78, died in 2004 of congestive heart failure, he owned car dealerships in Marietta and Valdosta and properties in Florida and on Cape Cod.

At the time of his death, according to sworn statements in the case, he was drinking a 1 1/2 gallons of wine daily, after many years of slugging down 1.5 liters of hard liquor each day.

In the last four years of his life, Strother, who never divorced his wife in Marietta, changed his will three times, each amendment leaving more and more to the 60-year-old Melican, who lives on Marco Island, Fla., where Strother owned condos.