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I just tried ardbeg uigeadail at Brouwer's earlier this week. It was quite tasty - generally I'm not a find of the Islay's but I did enjoy this one. It has all the peaty smokiness of an Islay but the sweetness softened it just enough. I had an IPA beforehand, so I was belching smoky-hoppy-peatiness for the next hour or so and that was a bit odd

Interview after the Paris attacks, where Motorhead was supposed to play the following day. Cancer has obviously taken a toll on the man's body, but his mind is sharp and his will unbroken. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eluYcLz4s54 Opens with a discussion about not playing after the attacks. Interviewer: "Attack sort of came out of nowhere at that concert. Does that change anything for you?" Lemmy: "I would have gone on the day after. If they stop you, they win. And they're not going to beat me... If the police cancel it I can't do nothing about that." ... Interviewer: "So you would continue to play? Lemmy: "Yeah, fuck those people. they don't like Rock and Roll, and I don't like them"

Anyone who claims to like Metal has heard of him and his band. There's more out there than Butt Rock, Boner.

Relevant? Hahaha. Who is EVH? From his latest album. It's been 4 years since A Different Kind of Truth and 20+ since Van Hagar [video:youtube]

Lemmy made a lot more relevant and great music in the last 20 years than EVH. 'Nuf said.

Communism is just a different political philosophy. Don't be so judgmental. Everyone has a job and health care there!

R.I.P.

No, he *is* GVHD for the GOP. Jebus, AlpineK, lay off the weed!

Another thread about Trump? WTF??

Agreed on Tale of Two Titties... uggh. Maudlin as fuck. There's a section in Oliver Twist like that too and it's annoying me... I want to get back to the swearin', drinkin', whorin' mainline story that sucked me into the plot I really enjoyed Great Expectations. Those are the only three I've read so far.

No, because of his negative portrayel of a Jew and referring to him as such. Clearly Dickens was an anti-semite just as Trump is a xenophobe

I don't agree with the comparison.... btw, speaking of xenophobia, bigotry an all that, you do know that socially-conscious, not-exactly-right-leaning Dickens has gotten more than his share of criticism for the character of Fagin

It's about as uplifting as 1984. Required reading (thematically at least) from time to time. Never forget and all that I still have Shirer's magnum opus on my tick list...

Night, Elie Wiesel (finished last week) Oliver Twist, Dickens Don Quixote, Cervantes

No Fly? Fuck that. Do the velcro fly! [video:youtube]

That was very generous of you!

yeah, but you keep taking right-of-center stances on positions so Ivan, naturally, must contradict you

i agree w/ the first statement but not the second. The past century of presidential elections indicates whoever the republicans pick has a much greater than 50/50 shot of winning. romney would have been a shoe-in if he'd run in 2016 against clinton (and i woulda loved to have seen the dog crate on top of the white house ) More in line with what I said earlier: link

Who knows. Kind of a risky gambit, don't you think? Best way to lose is for the R's to pick a "safe bet" - like Romney was. Trump may go independent though - I can't see him getting the nomination at the convention. Then the D's win for sure. Please make sure it's not Bernie!

A good businessman sells what his customer wants to buy. Madness and insanity is more in line with Bernie IMO

Ummm, that was not the point. The point is Graham is a politician vying for his territory to mark. Everything a politician says is to increase his position at the expense of an adversary. The GOP is not happy about Trump - he's too much of a loose cannon and wild card and he does not give a fuck - as he has said repeatedly. Graham unloaded on Trump? BFD. Graham called him a bunch of names? Again, BFD. In one of the MANY rounds of Trump saying something non-PC and getting roasted in the public circus that is media and politics (I believe it was the bleeding comment), he actually said he EXPECTS his opponents to do and say exactly what they did, and in this case, Graham is doing and saying. This guy is no idiot - everything he says is calculated and his reaction to criticism is likewise premeditated.

Who's ass is he puckering up to kiss?

“At the end of the day, Barack Obama has turned out to be a completely incompetent commander-in-chief. He doesn't listen to sound military advice. Leaving Iraq too soon led to the rise of ISIL, and John Kerry, his secretary of state, is a completely delusional man,” -- Sen. Lindsey Graham