The perfect month comes to a close. With that, we get ready to move into March.
Going after loot boxes seems a much better complaint than bitching about their cut.
The important thing from the Epstein Files: what were they drinking?
Pretty sure there’s more than one mistake that was made.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Won’t someone think of the poor animals in the slaughterhouses?
I’d be curious who decided what’s an insult?
For the cocktail, I’m going to make up for phoning it in the past couple of weeks, and reach way back for one.
The Cosmopolitan (1934 recipe)
- 4 part (2 ounce) gin
- 2 part (1 ounce) lemon juice
- 1 part (0.5 ounce) triple sec
- 1 part (0.5 ounce) raspberry syrup (grenadine can work as a substitute)
The Cosmopolitan is a drink that everyone knows, derides, and we know who and when it was created. Surprising no one, bartenders have not been sleeping on the name Cosmopolitan for centuries, and there have been several drinks created with that name. There’s records of whiskey based pre-prohibition recipes, as well as the recipe that I’m riffing on here, found in a book published in 1934 (hence the name, as this was brought back in the past 20 years). The recipe was mentioned as having been around for a while, so it likely was from the prohibition era or shortly before that. The ratios for this drink are pretty broad, I went with my general preference. For guidance, Liquor.com says 3 part gin: 1 part triple sec: 1 part raspberry syrup: 1.5 part lemon juice; Cocktail Time says 2 oz gin: bar spoon triple sec: teaspoon raspberry syrup: juice of one lemon.
After all of that, let’s get to making the drink. If you don’t have raspberry syrup, grenadine can be used as a substitute, or simple syrup and muddle some fresh raspberries in the shaker. Add everything to the shaker, add ice, shake until chilled and combined, and then strain (double strain if using fresh raspberries) into a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass. Garnishes mentioned include fresh raspberries, orange twists, and dehydrated orange slices. The third strikes me as a modern affection, while the first two line up with my expectations.
With that, I hope you all enjoy the weekend.
BANANA!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sovWyMhh5KI
‘A monkey never cramps’
You ever roasted Spam over a campfire? It’s not bad.
I have. I’ve also had S.O.S. and corned beef hash out of a can.
But Spam is probably the worst of the processed pork leavings out there (scrapple, pork roll, goetta, etc.), it’s one advantage is being canned and shelf stable.
I started doing this whole “healthy” thing around 2010 or so and gave up SPAM, but I do miss fried SPAM and eggs.
I’ve seen recipes for homemade SPAM; maybe I’ll have to try one.
Corned beef hash from a can looks like barf. I could probably make corn beef hash from scratch and not have a problem with it, but the can is a hard no.
I cannot abide this slander against Minnesoda’s most famous export!
Prince?
If only we could outlaw stupidity we wouldn’t have to have this conversation.
Populist shocker
Britain’s beleaguered government has spent much of its time in power concerned about the surging far-right. Instead it just received a sucker punch from the progressive left.
The Green Party delivered a stunning blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer early Friday with a victory in a hotly contested special election in the northern city of Manchester.
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Spencer was a plumber before she entered politics, a hint of the appeal insurgents from both sides of the political spectrum now have in a country where wages are stagnant, public services are ailing, and years of government scandal have eroded trust in institutions.
Starmer’s position has been under intense scrutiny for months, but recent revelations linked to the Epstein scandal left him badly weakened.
Enter the “eco-populist” Greens, who want to radically overhaul Britain’s energy system, tax multimillionaires’ wealth, dismantle its nuclear weapons program and reverse its policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Everybody hates Labour, apparently.
I didn’t know there were any multi-millionaires left in Limeyland. Talk about dead-enders.
Ah, Epstein. The gift that keeps on giving. 🙄
“Britain’s beleaguered government has spent much of its time in power concerned about the surging far-right. Instead it just received a sucker punch from the progressive left.”
Is the left ever “far”?
Also, eco-populism is just what the UK needs to pull it out of its doldrums… More insanely expensive energy, more neutering of its defense capabilities, more Middle East pandering.
No, the left is just good common sense. And science.
It’s “progressive”! Progressive is good.
I would want to dismantle the nuclear stockpile as well.
Get rid of it before the Muslims get their hands on it.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: The Federal judge that issued the injunction stopping NH from ending car inspections issues strong worded letter saying she really means it:
A federal judge is telling New Hampshire that the state needs to get its vehicle inspection program back up and running.
The ruling on Wednesday does not immediately change anything for New Hampshire drivers, who currently do not need to get their vehicles inspected.
The judge denied a request to pause her original injunction, which ordered the state not to suspend the program.
Despite the initial ruling, inspections have not resumed, and the state has not approved a new contract to continue the program.
A little more on the strongly worded letter.
Dude…
So the legislature passed the bill to repeal it, and that whiny nobody is trying to bring it back? She can fuck off. Next bill passed should revoke her judgeship.
Federal judge, so NH has no say over that. The Court of Appeals should be slapping her back into her lane.
Federal judge, so NH has no say over that. The Court of Appeals should be slapping her back into her lane.
Yes.
The only remedy under the Clean Air Act is withholding Federal highway money. Not forcing the state to continue a program by judicial fiat.
Hasn’t that judge learned with ICE that states don’t need to help FedGov with things they don’t like?
She explained that she never wanted to be a politician and apologized to anyone who had booked her plumbing services.
“I am no different to every single person here in this constituency,” she said. “Working hard used to get you something. It got you a house, a nice life, holidays, it got you somewhere. But now, working hard, what does that get you?
“…and that’s why I went into politics.”
“Easier to just take money from other people who work hard so you don’t have to.”
She’s pretty decent looking as far as British plumbers go (I assume).
And a heart full of envy for any untaxed dollars remaining in the nation.
4 Rules of Plumbing
1. Hot’s on the left, cold’s on the right.
2. Shit runs downhill.
3. Don’t bite your fingernails.
4. Payday is on Friday.
Not bad teeth for a Brit either.
A ‘plumber’ whose net worth is over 1 million pounds and only works on her own properties. She is also very much against ‘divisiveness’ AKA anything or anyone who disputes leftist stalking points.
Prior to the election:
https://thecritic.co.uk/who-has-really-caused-division/
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Nashua, NH Country Club shooter confesses:
The man who allegedly opened fire at a country club in Nashua, N.H., last fall, killing a restaurant patron and wounding two other people, later confessed to the shooting and told investigators he wanted to kill the rich, according to a recently unsealed police affidavit.
Hunter West Nadeau, 24, told police he carried out the attack at the steakhouse at the Sky Meadow club in an effort to punish the rich because “they were not helping the poor,” said a police affidavit that a judge recently unsealed.
Auction off his assets.
Give it to the injured parties.
Reactionaries vow to fend off center left
Moderate Democrats here are stockpiling cash to brace against a progressive wave they warn could knock San Francisco off its more centrist course.
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which helped fund the city’s pivot away from progressive politics over the last five years, told Playbook it has raised $10 million to pour into San Francisco local races this year to prevent progressive candidates from regaining power at City Hall and defeat a looming “CEO tax” that labor unions have placed on the June primary ballot.
“This is a wave that is coming to us, it’s coming westward,” said Jay Cheng, the group’s director. “You can feel that pendulum swing, and it is important that someone is holding the line.”
Why do they hate social justice?
I wonder what color the sky is on their planet?
“You can feel that pendulum swing…”
They sure didn’t give it much time for the pendulum to swing in the other direction before it started reverting to the former.
When you’ve been down that far, sideways looks like straight up.
Centrist by SF standards.
Smug is colorless, odorless and tasteless and quite deadly.
“It’s hard in a place like this for the center to hold,” Mandelman said. “We have pragmatists and utopians.”
The left in San Francisco has tried to seize the moment by comparing the influence of wealthy, centrist donors in San Francisco to that of Donald Trump and his allies nationally. Progressives in the city regularly use terms like “astroturf network,” “oligarchs” and “right-wing billionaires” to refer to Neighbors for a Better SF and its donors, which include wealthy tech players and real-estate investors like billionaire Bill Oberndorf, venture capitalist Steven Merrill and companies like Uber.
Hard core right wing populists, the lot of them.
Goose-stepping fascists don’t you mean?
Those people have been funding the state and the left for years. Now the left is turning on them and straight up looting them with the billionaire tax and real estate tax.
Bite the hand, idiots….
Neil Sedaka, 1939-2026
RIP.
Sharing his love under stormy skies
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/not-normal-behavior-police-say-monroe-co-man-who-set-fire-to-kill-spiders-caught/article_63f2fe18-690c-4ccf-9396-1df4619ff4b7.html
Maybe they were really big spiders.