This brick was hurled at me hard enough I considered just writing a stand alone article rather than a beer review.  Sorry.

This is my review of Flying Bassett Brewing Top Dog:

This began when I came across an article denying the Veteran’s Administration removed the iconic photo of VJ Day in Times Square from its facilities.  To the point where they had to state it was an internal communication not intended for public distribution. You know the photo, it captures the moment news broke the Empire of Japan unconditionally surrendered to the Allies on the deck of the USS Missouri in the manner perfectly encapsulating what everyone in America was feeling at that exact moment.  The guy saw his chance, and took it. Quite frankly, this kind of gumption is why we won the war.

Same old VA I thought.  I saw the name of the official and asked myself, “why does that ring a bell?”  Then it I saw this one:  Woke VA official who pushed to remove WWII kiss photo ‘mismanaged’ St. Louis hospital where Vets were reportedly exposed to HIV.

At that point I figured it out.  I used to work for this idiot while she was director at the Phoenix VA.

For context, she came in after the incident involving “secret wait lists”*—that director was named Sharon Helman who was eventually fired but not for the incident in question.  I should not say anything further about her since I was involved in a related FOIA request.

Here is where I want to clear up some of the Gell-Mann Amnesia.  I define woke as a contemporary version of Marxist Critical Theory that intends to highlight class and social distinctions between people of differing race/ethnicity and even between men and women, with the intention to eliminate them in spite of the detriment to society this will cause.  This detriment is the intended effect.

Now the position I was in the org chart has the facility director as the only person my supervisor answered to.  So when I say I worked with her, I do mean it was very often personally.  By the above definition, this woman is not “woke”.  She’s not a communist, she’s a fucking idiot.

The biggest reason I left the VA in 2017 and took a job with a commercial insurance company for a 15% pay cut was there was no way I was going to get promoted in that outfit.  Indeed, she is exactly the type of person that gets promoted in spite of previous failure.  Perhaps what I am trying to say, is we aren’t necessarily trying to defeat a strain of cultural Marxism that somehow gained favor with people in power.  They aren’t brainwashed, they’re too dumb for it to make a difference.

 

In the midst of the insane rat race for the limited space on the local booze merchant’s shelves you find something you thought didn’t exist anymore.  Its an amber lager!  I thought this style died after Sam Adams cornered the market and decided they’re never going to let their flagship beer die despite waning consumer demand correlating to Gen Xers discovering they’re old enough to have fatty liver disease.  Its a nice take on Boston Lager, a tad bit hoppier but nonetheless enjoyable. Flying Bassett Brewing Top Dog: 3.7/5

 

*I used scare quotes because there was no real secret. Nobody in charge at the time seemed to know how the system was supposed to work.