Cocktails That I Like Part 2

by | Sep 24, 2026 | Cocktails, Pastimes | 150 comments

Part 1

I can not drink beer anymore, every time I try it, my nose turns into a faucet and I get a bumping headache. While this makes me sad, I have learned how to enjoy liquor.

While I like rum, my wife likes gin or tequila drinks, so I have expanded my repertoire of cocktails. These are some more of the cocktails I make for myself and my wife. I don’t have a good collection of cocktail glasses, most of our drinking glasses are beer glasses.

#1 Tequila Sunrise

2 oz. Don Julio Tequila

4 oz. orange juice

1/2 oz. Grenadine Syrup

Stir the vodka and OJ in the glass with ice, then pour the grenadine down the side of the glass to get the layer on the bottom.

My wife likes Tequila Sunrises and since I’ve started using a fancier grenadine, she like it even more. If you’ve only used Rose’s, you’re missing out. I’m sure homemade is better, but that’s too much work and this one is really, really good.

#2 Jasper’s Rum Punch

8 oz fresh lime juice

6 oz granulated sugar

1/2 oz Angostura Bitters

1/2-3/4 tbsp grated nutmeg

Combine all ingredients in a jar. Cap and shake to combine. Rest in fridge for two hours, agitating occasionally. Store in fridge for up to 3-4 weeks.

In the video above, he mixes 1 1/2 oz. of this with 1 1/2 oz. of Wray & Nephew Jamaican Overproof Rum. I used Hamilton Demerara 151 and it was really good. Then I had a thought, what if I mixed it 50-50 with Maggies farm 50% dark rum.

It was amazing. I haven’t made this in awhile, need to rectify that. I made a large glass with 6 oz of each and had 2 of them. In the future, maybe large one and then a normal sized one would work better. The ice in the second one was melting because I didn’t drink it nearly as fast.

#3 Single Serve Eggnog

2 Egg Yolks

2.7 Oz sugar

Little Nutmeg

1/3 cup milk, cream, and half and half

2 tbs and 2 tsp each of rum, bourbon, and cognac

Wisk all ingredients together in a bowl, then cool in the fridge for a couple hours before drinking.Pour over ice and grate fresh nutmeg over top.

I don’t make this one often, it is just a shrunken version of Alton Browns Aged Eggnog. I did learn the first time to let it chill in the fridge, the whipping of the eggs and sugar plus the room temperature alcohol warmed it considerably. A good alternative if you don’t want to make the full batch.

#4 Cherry Margarita

6 Pitted Cherries

2 oz. Tequila

1/2 oz Heering Cherry Liqueur

1 oz Lime Juice

1/2 oz Simple Syrup (1:1)

Muddle the cherries with the lime juice and cherry liqueur, add tequila and ice and shake. Fine strain into a salt rimmed glass.

I use Don Julio and though the recipe calls for reposado, we use a blanco. My wife prefers it without the salt. I garnish it with these cherries.

According to my wife who thinks the margaritas I make with whole limes is the best drink, this one ties it. I agree, it is so smooth and flavorful. I made it with silver rum instead once and it was definitely better with the tequila flavor.

#5 Blackberry Bramble

3 large or 6 medium Blackberries

2 oz Gin

1 oz Black Raspberry Liqueur

1 1/2 oz Lemonade

1/2 oz Simple Syrup (1:1)

Muddle blackberries with the blackberry liqueur in a separate container, add all of the other ingredients to a shaking tin. Shake with ice for 8 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass full of ice. Pour blackberries and liqueur over the top and garnish with a whole blackberry.

So Good

Favorite Gin

I use this blackberry liqueur which I found in a liquor store in Pittsburgh that specializes in liquors distilled in Pennsylvania. In the video, he only uses 1/2 oz of it, but I put a full ounce in. Also, my wife never buys lemons, mostly because I don’t like lemon in anything, but she is very happy with the lemonade as a substitute.

Part 3 coming soon.

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ron73440

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150 Comments

  1. DEG

    The Rum Punch and Blackberry Bramble look great.

    • R.J.

      I love a good rum punch. It gets so hot down here I do one with 1/3 Pineapple juice, 1/3 Orange Juice, 1/3 rum. And a little grenadine for color that floats to the bottom.
      I am adding Ron’s to my book.

      • Ted S.

        What about a Hawaiian punch?

        Or a nut punch?

    • ron73440

      The bramble is my wife’s current favorite.

      I asked her to get me some limes and am going to make a batch of the punch mix this weekend.

  2. Sensei

    All of that sugar looks great for a single drink, but more than one would be a surefire hangover for me.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      6 oz granulated sugar

      Beetus shock!

      I can say truthfully that Ron’s Cherry Bounce (see archive for article) is pretty tasty.

      • rhywun

        I was guessing that is a mix to make many drinks? That much sugar in one drink would not be normal.

    • ron73440

      You make a batch of the punch and then use it in a 50/50 mix with a good rum.

      The original was made with a 151 rum, but I like it with the aged rum.

  3. PieInTheSky

    wait a minute! you are not the official glibertarian cocktail guy!

    • Not Adahn

      Ain’t no cartels in this market baby.

    • ron73440

      wait a minute! you are not the official glibertarian cocktail guy!</blockquote

      I am more like the amateur alcoholic.

      • PieInTheSky

        the official cocktail guy should no how to use blockquote anyways

      • ron73440

        And a vampire should *no* how to spell.

  4. PieInTheSky

    too much juice/sugar, not enough liquor

    but i don’t drink cock tails anyways

    • R.J.

      Are you being That Guy?

      • Sean

        He’s not wrong.

      • PieInTheSky

        i am sure the author is stoic about feedback

    • ron73440

      too much juice/sugar, not enough liquor

      Hence, the title:

      Cocktails That I Like

  5. kinnath

    I’ve never been into spirits of cocktails. I will stick to mead.

    • Not Adahn

      Just don’t use rhododendron honey.

      Now I’m wondering what plant one could use to make fun honey. Morning Glory? Nutmeg?

      • kinnath

        A quick search says that the psychoactive in some honeys (e.g., mad honey) are unlikely to carry through the fermentation process

        It then warns that results are likely to be unpredictable and possibly dangerous.

        If you want psychoactive booze, you are more likely to be successful with a gruit.

    • PieInTheSky

      ever tried Hidromel?

      • kinnath

        I make it regularly. It covers the category of “watered-down mead”. So, in reality it is just lower alcohol levels and frequently lower sweetness levels.

        I make what many people refer to a “session meads” which range from 6% to 9% ABV. These get kegged and force carbonated. They are typically served chilled and are wonderful summertime drinks.

    • ron73440

      If I made mead like you do, I would also stick to mead.

      That stuff is great.

      • kinnath

        Thanks

  6. The Late P Brooks

    No blender, anyway.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    A couple billion here, a couple billion there…

    The Energy Department announced on Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to avoid blackouts amid skyrocketing energy demand spurred by artificial intelligence.

    The money will go toward 31 projects across 26 states that are expected to produce more than 23 gigawatts of additional electricity capacity — enough to power 16 million homes. The projects will use new technologies such as sensors and other devices to measure real-time weather conditions to ensure safe transmission or direct power away from congested or overloaded paths, the department said.

    The upgrades could improve power reliability and lower electricity costs for about 100 million Americans, officials said.

    The more you spend, the more you save.

    • rhywun

      aging and stressed power grid

      Meanwhile utilities are always sending out splashy emails detailing how many billions they just spent. I got one just the other day.

      Explain to me why the feds need to spend more billions on top of the billions that are already added to our utility bills?

      • RAHeinlein

        Your utility bill is paying for the 8 million (likely far more) households who get discounts or free utilities.

      • rhywun

        lol There aren’t even that many customers in my utility’s service area but yeah.

    • EvilSheldon

      Not that I have any faith in the DoE to do anything right…but energy infrastructure in the US isn’t the worst possible use for my tax dollars by a long shot.

      Still waiting for my trailer-sized stratified bed nuclear reactors, though.

      • Brochettaward

        Updating all the power grid would be one of the few infrastructure bills I’d support. It legit is shitty and way behind the latest tech. Beyond that there are very real threats to the entire electrical grid that could plunge us into a Mad Max dystopia overnight. I know some Glibs feel prepared for that, and I must confess seeing the government crumble may be nice, but I do like my AC being in South Florida.

      • ron73440

        I told my wife if we lived in a free country there would be a tiny nuclear reactor in my yard that I paid a company to maintain.

      • R C Dean

        Yup. A Mr. Fission on every block.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Pictures Homer Simpson going over to Ron’s to check the state of fusibles in his blast chamber.

        “Is thee… MAN… of the house around, ma’am?”

    • Threedoor

      My county two years ago got did by the power company for over taxing their power lines and polls.

      So they didn’t just lower that taxes on the power companies. They added new taxes on everyone else to make up for it.

      Then raised the charge “judgement” 1400% last year.

      I’m certain those two new tax lines will be perminent and continue to grow.

      They never think to spend less money. They have a new courthouse county building to pay for and a new football complex for the high school they didn’t budget for afterall.

  8. rhywun

    I don’t like rum or tequila but I might try that gin one – plus I like blackberries.

    • Rat on a train

      I know of languages that have the letter “3”.

    • Not Adahn

      kʷikʷəƛ̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm

      There is a photo of the sign in case you think this is some sort of unicode garbling.

      • Rat on a train

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language

        Because the /ʔ/ character glyph is not found on typewriters and did not exist in most fonts until the widespread adoption of Unicode, the Squamish orthography conventionally represents the glottal stop with the number symbol 7; the same character glyph is also used as a digit to represent the number seven.

      • rhywun

        Sometimes I wonder if the big brains who came up with the orthographies for Indian languages are being overly pedantic. E.g. is there really any difference between Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Sḵwx̱wúmesh? All the languages I know with a glottal stop do not use it to distinguish words (it’s not a phoneme).

      • rhywun

        photo of the sign

        OFFS. The names just roll off the tongue, don’t they.

      • Not Adahn

        Native speakers 45

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Writing like that is really just a thorn in our writing.

    • Rat on a train

      They should have written everything in the original orthography instead of the modern one that is based on a colonist’s alphabet.

      • rhywun

        Good one.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, when I write by hand, it does look like chicken scratch.

    • Threedoor

      Injuns appropriating the Greek letters.

      Take the wheel and the fire water back from them until they behave.

    • rhywun

      Cornell has some buildings with gobbledygook names. So progressive.

      • Rat on a train

        My area has names derived from local tribal languages but they are Anglicized so you have a better chance to pronounce them than what is in the link.

      • slumbrew

        Hauppauge and Nissequogue wave hi.

      • rhywun

        Those are surely Anglicized, too.

      • slumbrew

        Exactly. They’re slightly tricky, but easy enough once you see a couple. No idea if there was even a native written language.

      • rhywun

        No idea if there was even a native written language.

        None of them (in North America) had writing before the white man arrived.

      • rhywun

        What you’re seeing with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and the like is some egghead linguist transcribing the exact sound of the native word. That one is already Anglicized as “Squamish”.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        So, writing sammich would be different if done for natives?

        Asking for a friend.

  9. Not Adahn

    Ok, caught up on reading the comments.

    One of my shooters had a stroke at Nats. I heard him say “whoa, I got really confused for a second and now I feel like I just woke up.” I originally thought he was having a heat issue (since it was well over 90 every day) but when I was talking to him he denied ever feeling confused or saying what I heard him say. I got medical there, they took him to the hospital and stuck him in the ICU.

    That whole week was particularly odd.

    • EvilSheldon

      Yow. Hope he’s doing okay.

      How were the stages overall?

      • Not Adahn

        I am starting to really appreciate Matt Hopkins as a stage designer. The amount of agonizing by the competitors over how to run mine was great, though after Jacob Heatherington and JJ ran the same stage plan, everyone went that route even though Mason and some other top guys ran it differently.

        Except for Stage 2. It did not belong there. It was a particularly forgettable local-club design, no idea how it made it onto the ground.

        Stage 1 started with a 37 yard mini-popper, but had a 15 yard stretch with nothing to shoot at, and the resulting sprint through that section made the final 20 yard mini poppers much more difficult than the earlier one. At least for someone in my fitness level.

        I love that there is so much talent that the podium here was completely different than the match a month ago.

    • Ted S.

      The other shooter couldn’t reach that far.

      Seriously, that must be frightening for all involved.

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, I really wasn’t expecting that result since he wasn’t slurring his speech, having a drooping face/arm or anything that I’ve been told to look for symptom-wise. I just knew a confused guy was not someone I wanted running around shooting at stuff.

        Fortunately we had EMS onsite and they realized that it more serious than I did immediately.

      • Threedoor

        Glad he got quick treatment. Hopefully he won’t have a bad recovery.

  10. Brochettaward

    I have a bone to pick with Ron and the lot of you. That photo? It has no alt-text. Do you know how discriminatory that is against the visually impaired. Or is it the deaf? I don’t know, but I’m fucking angry here.

    • Threedoor

      Me not knowing what “alt text” is makes me feel left out and superior at the same time.

    • DrOtto

      The more I read that story about the lesbian bar, the more I’m convinced it’s satire and that bar and those people can’t possibly exist.

    • Rat on a train

      Many years ago I saw blind linguist using a Braille monitor. I wonder if they now support alt-text …

  11. The Other Kevin

    I like how this site is keeping up with our changing world. There is a lot of crazy stuff happening. If you’re going to drown your sorrows you might as well do it with class.

    • ron73440

      I don’t think I have ever been accused of being high class.

      • The Other Kevin

        You’re not recommending a bottle in a brown paper bag, so I’m calling this high class.

  12. Mojeaux

    GunGlibs. As you may know, I recently became the proud owner of a Sig Sauer Something (took >1 hour with background check, God bless Missouri). When I get a minute, I’ll go back for classes and practice because the last time I shot a pistol, I was 10. Or 8. idk

    • ron73440

      Have fun with it.

    • kinnath

      Congrats

    • Sensei

      Don’t cheap out on hearing protection.

      When I got back into shooting I decided to get cheap active earmuffs. Bad move. One of my ears is still occasionally ringing 10 days later.

      The next indoor range trip is going to have me with a pair of Howard Leight Impact Pros + disposable foam earplugs. Lesson learned.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, good to know. As if Mötley Crüe hasn’t done enough damage.

      • Sean

        I do foam plugs and amplified over the ears. I think it’s a great combo. Even outdoors.

      • Threedoor

        I’ve been getting my hearing protection from a can the last several years. Plus foam earplugs.

        Sadly I lost a lot in the last thirty from work and driving.

      • Bobarian LMD

        My step-dad sent me a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. First thing I did was use my new Ryobi nail gun on some panels for my basement stairs.

        I pulled the trigger the first time and it went click…

        “Fucking nail gun doesn’t work!” Tried it a few more times.

        Pull my ear-phones down, check to see if nails are feeding and then try it one more time. My ears rang for a day.

        The click I was hearing was actually about 140 dB but the earphones were completely muffling everything. Works incredibly well.

      • EvilSheldon

        The HL Impact Pros and cheap foam plugs from Home Depot have been my go-to for years, even while owning and using much more expensive and elaborate systems with integrated microphones and radio jacks, Bluetooth, et cetera.

        Moj, always remember the four rules of gun safety – Have fun, look cool, you’ll probably shoot better after a few beers or a spliff, and…what was it? Oh yeah, be safe.

      • R C Dean

        Since I’m down to one ear, and it has tinnitus, I double bag with a foam earplug and amplified muffs as well.

    • Mojeaux

      This is labeled as 1974, but I’m not sure that’s right. Also not sure it’s wrong. My grandpa loved him his guns.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huzzah! Hopefully not a P320…

      • Sean

        IIRC she said a P365.

        BTW, Sig is releasing a P385. Looks interesting.

    • Threedoor

      Don’t shoot your eye out kid!

    • Gender Traitor

      Obligatory.
      (It was either this or the Andrews Sisters singing “Pistol Packin’ Mama,” and some people don’t appreciate the classics.)

      • Fourscore

        I like the Mpls trio.

      • Gender Traitor

        My neck of the woods just had the lesser-known (and, in my opinion, lesser) McGuire Sisters from Middletown and the excellent Mills Brothers from up the road in Piqua.

  13. Gustave Lytton

    From ded thred: Trump admin needs to sack up and do the Andrew Jackson. Bu they won’t, but a) they’re large hot air and no concrete results b) led by someone who executives based on feels not principles. See the toadying up with Mandami.

    Trump’s legacy, unless he wakes up and does a 180° tomorrow, will be squandered opportunity, temporary results that are quickly reversed by next pen and phone, and destroying any sort of principled small government conservatism in the Republican Party. And creech’s establishment hack friends will celebrate on being able to once again deliver truly great concession speeches, outstanding fundraising beg letters, and doing I-told-you-so’s.

  14. Gustave Lytton

    I remember when Glibs used to ridicule McCain for singing “bomb Iran” as a warmonger. Yet, here it is 2003 all over again, defending invading Iraq as a brilliant move that will restructure the Middle East into a pro western way. Sticking our dicks in it is so 2016/2024, we’re going to do it right this time.

    • R C Dean

      Who around here is saying invading Iraq (which we haven’t actually done, BTW) is a brilliant move, etc.?

      • Brochettaward

        I don’t think the point was about yet another invasion of Iraq. It was about the cheerleading of attacking Iran. A war that they have no plan to win.

        If an invasion of Iran starts looking like a real possibility, what are the Glibs going to say at that point? Still going to pretend that Iran was some grave threat to us? In which case even if they were, none of that would change the fact that there was little chance of success fighting the war this way.

    • Brochettaward

      Not me. Said it during the first attack, said it since. This is a complete fucking waste of time, money, and blood for the US. What’s maybe most interesting is just how little the Trump admin even has to sell Americans on the idea of bombing another country these days.

      When Bush started the GWOT, he had to sell the American public hard on Iraq and WMD’s despite 9/11. They launched a massive PR push to convince people.

      Now these guys can just wake up one morning and order us into a war while Congress does jack all and people yawn. Cheer it on based purely on team politics.

      Too many people here are falling into the trap. The shit that Trump says is no more credible than any other jackass who has been in that office and lied to get their way.

      • B.P.

        “What’s maybe most interesting is just how little the Trump admin even has to sell Americans on the idea of bombing another country these days.”

        The problem with this analysis is that pretty much everyone hates this war except for Trump diehards and some Neocons. The administration has indeed done a shit job of selling the war, leaving the few supporters to roll out Iran’s Greatest Hits to justify the war as a coping strategy. We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979! They were behind a barracks bombing in 1983! They funded proxies who strike our people! Two weeks to a nuclear weapon! Etc. The time to strike is when the thing happens so that the reason for the action is crystal clear. Don’t collect grievances for 47 years and then strike out of the blue with no context or no explanation. That’s poor salesmanship. If my dog chews up my favorite slippers, I don’t smack him with a newspaper 10 days later.

        Also, just stop dicking around in the area. If commerce/shipping lanes need protecting, fine. Form a coalition and do something. I’ve been told countless times how striking some bunch of assholes in the Middle East will work this time, and everything will be better. Where’s the omelet?

      • Brochettaward

        The war could be incredibly unpopular. It wouldn’t change the fact that launching a military operation of this scale unilaterally with no build-up would have been unthinkable pre-2001/9/11 and Iraq. And there isn’t much being done. Where are the protests? Mouthbreathers in this country are more preoccupied with Israel/Palestine. And granted this is in my view just an extension of that, but people are protesting for Palestinians. No one gives a fuck enough to get off their ass and do the same to end this.

        It’s a definite shift. That was my only point. It’s as clear as any indicator we have of just how much power has shifted to the executive branch. Congress didn’t even get a heads up this was happening. Nothing official or widespread at least.

        Bombing a shithole country at all times is just the new normal.

      • B.P.

        I can agree with that. I guess the only protesting greenlit by whoever is in charge of such things is bitching about gas prices.

  15. Brochettaward

    Trump won’t do it because he’s kind of a tool bag, but you can easily show the absurdity of the judge’s ruling forcing him to allow the mainstream media outlets back in.

    Have Alex Jones apply for credentials to get into the White House press corps. A seat in the front row. Watch how quickly the howling starts and how fast they don’t care about a supposed first amendment violation.

    We are in the dumbest timeline and it shows. I’m as staunch a defender of the first as you’re going to find. There is no line when it comes to speech and I believe that on a personal level as well. I have no desire to see thoughts and opinions policed culturally. But there is no fucking first amendment violation because some pompous douchey established media outlets were kicked out of the White House.

    I’d have to think the Supremes will rule that way at some point. And if they don’t it’ll be setting a godawful precedent ripe for abuse.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Maybe. Club Elite Black Robes doesn’t really want the dregs into their esteemed club, either.

    • Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

      I vote for malicious compliance.

      Stick them in an bathroom without ventilation while two fat dudes with diarrhea shit the place up and old Rush Limbaugh shows are played in a loop.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya I mentioned this AM, the move shouldn’t have been yanked and barred from entry, but overflow room and never called on.

      • Threedoor

        Put them in the BJ closet.

      • DrOtto

        That’s weaponized pooping.

      • slumbrew

        Put them in the BJ closet.

        There’s a special closet for that?

      • ron73440

        Put them in the BJ closet.

        $20?

        Same as downtown?

      • Bobarian LMD

        CNN, this week is your turn in the barrel.

      • Threedoor

        The Lewinsky room.

    • Not Adahn

      Somehow a private cartel (WHCA) gets to decide who is a legitimate journalismist. So OMB could give AJ credentials, but the WHCA would not let him in.

      • R C Dean

        I doubt the WHCA can actually prohibit someone from coming into the White House and taking a seat in the front row if the President wants them there.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Tim Pool got in, so that cartel isn’t so hot on enforcement.

    • R C Dean

      I have no desire to see thoughts and opinions policed culturally.

      Huh. I do. I think, for example, that anyone advocating for pedophilia, not to mention actually grooming children (which is mostly done by talking, you know) should be anathematized.

    • rhywun

      Yes, this is not a free speech or 1A issue. They are free to say whatever the hell they want – that is what is protected (with the usual exceptions that everyone is subject to).

      Twisting it around to claim they have a right to demand an audience with the King (or with anyone) seems backwards to me.

  16. Gustave Lytton

    And having seen drug legalization up close, it’s a colossal failure. Dipshits can’t keep their weed at home, they’re smoking in their car while driving. It’s like dipshits getting DUIs (or repeat DUIs) in this day. Fuck the degenerates, enjoy prison life. Or a coffin.

    • Threedoor

      WA and OR smell like shit now too.

    • The Other Kevin

      Whew. That was just like Hitler.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    energy infrastructure in the US isn’t the worst possible use for my tax dollars by a long shot.

    If they would divert the money from some other existing commitment instead of conjuring up another two billion dollars from the magic hat I might not mind so much.

    • EvilSheldon

      I normally hate true crime anything, but that is really truly weird.

  18. Timeloose

    You guys keep making me want to get back off the wagon. Those drinks look good Ron. The blackberry gin drink is right up my dark alley.

    • EvilSheldon

      Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

      • The Other Kevin

        STEVE SMITH RIGHT UP… Never mind, too easy.

      • Timeloose

        Looks like I might need to change my bait.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I think you just need to find a master bait, then it will work for everything.

      • Gdragon

        That does sound incredibly handy.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Say goodbye to your preferred customer discount

    The Seattle City Council has approved a first-in-the-nation ban on what some refer to as surveillance pricing. The new law, passed on Tuesday, prohibits major grocers from using artificial intelligence and shoppers’ personal data to set individualized prices.

    ——-

    The Fair and Transparent Pricing ordinance passed 7-2, with Councilmembers Robert Kettle and Maritza Rivera opposed. It now goes to Mayor Katie Wilson for her signature.

    The measure prohibits large online and brick-and-mortar grocery retailers from using information such as race, gender, employment status, location, browsing history, social media activity or chatbot conversations to determine what an individual shopper pays.

    Good work, geniuses. You really stuck it to those evil corpoashuns this time.

    • Threedoor

      Compliance with regulations never raises prices.

    • EvilSheldon

      Yes, they’ve successfully banned something that was not happening, anywhere.

      • Brochettaward

        Instacart was caught red-handed doing it?

      • Brochettaward

        Also, Playstation was doing the same shit.

        I’d wager a bunch of corps have gotten to the testing phase of it. In some sense it’s not that much different from the loyalty programs and how they divvy out coupons to customers.

        I could be crazy, but I was ordering off Chipotle’s app recently. Nothing about the order changed, but the price jumped between $14 before climbing back down on refresh. Got like 4 different prices with that being the highest. It wasn’t the tip or anything else.

      • rhywun

        Maybe online but no way in “brick-and-mortar grocery retailers”. The price is right there on the shelf.

      • Gdragon

        As if I needed another reason to go in and select my own fruits and vegetables.

    • creech

      So they are prohibiting stores from identifying and upcharging richer customers their “fair share.” Sounds like a plan that they would never consider when it comes to taxation.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “Senate to vote on ending Iran War.”

    What does that mean, exactly? Do Rubio and Hegseth fly to Teheran and surrender?

    • Brochettaward

      It’s a fucked situation. They allowed this shit to happen with the executive launching it unilaterally. Once your in, the Senate or Congress then asserting it’s control to force an end to it is maybe even crazier.

      There would be *no* good conclusion to this war. Iran would have no reason to concede a single fucking thing in negotiations if they knew the admin had to end the war. That grown adults need this shit explained to them….grown adults drawing six figure salaries and most of whom are in politics professionally for years or the entirety of their adult lives…

      We are one ignorant fucking country at this point.

      • Brochettaward

        People are incapable of separating their opinions of whether something should be done from whether it can be done (is victory truly possible) and how it should be resolved. The first question of whether it was going to happen or not was decided, whether anyone likes it or not.

        This has become a serious problem with every war effort we’ve had since Vietnam with the exception of the Gulf War because it ended so quickly. It becomes about domestic politics and that’s a real shitty way to wage any war.

        I’m capable of recognizing that the war shouldn’t have been started, but that is completely separate from how it needs to end.

        Like how many years were spent fucking around with people arguing about Iraqi’s WMD’s and whether Bush lied and using that as a basis for how America should extract itself from the mess? There should be political consequences for the side that fucks up, but you also can’t be a serious country with a serious foreign policy if you think that you can just cut tail and run with no consequences.

        Nixon had this shit right with Vietnam and his peace with honor shit. And taking Nixon down ultimately led to North Vietnam steamrolling the South because it was no longer politically possible to enforce the agreement we signed to end the war.

    • Sensei

      They pass some resolution of some kind that Trump doesn’t have to follow.

      Or they could do something that might be useful, but they would be accountable to voters for doing it.

      Easy choice.

      • Rat on a train

        C: We grant you powers.
        P: Yes.
        C: We didn’t intend you to use them like that. Give them back.
        P: No.

    • RAHeinlein

      War is a-bit of a stretch. Also – so what happens when they are mining the Strait, shooting at ships, or worse at bases (which has happened)? You can’t undermine ability to respond.

  21. bacon-magic

    I have to try the blackberry one for sure. Thanks!

  22. Evan from Evansville

    Reading these, I’d like to kinda get into mocktails, but I’m not sure. a) good ones look like a lot of work b) I’m not sure I’d get one in public. They’re expensive and cost way too much for what they’re going for. A club soda with lime seems the standard, a beverage visually in-sync with a bar. It’s also possible there are beverages I’ve never tasted that’d be worth the price. 🧐🧐

    • Timeloose

      I’m a fan of drinking a club with bitters on the rocks. Also say you’re a DD it might be free.

      • Evan from Evansville

        That right there, is a spectacular idea! How does that usually work? Just ask what bitters they have, or are there flavors you think work best, etc? They may be standard enough to have names.

        I’m solidly in the pro-DD camp, or rather, would be. Another fantastic insight.

      • Timeloose

        The standard bitters is Angostura. Orange is also common.

  23. Gustave Lytton

    Russia using R2P is too perfect. Who could have seen that coming? Besides anyone with a half a brain? Which excludes Cass Sunstein’s idiot foreign agent wife. Shoulda nudged that clue a bit harder.

  24. Pat

    For your blackberry bramble, you might consider swapping in Bombay Bramble. It’s technically a raspberry and blackberry blend, but it’s got a nice, discernible blackberry flavor.

  25. R.J.

    Jeez is it Thursday? I had a cold all week and work has been a nightmare. I best be girding loins and all.

  26. Fourscore

    Oh man, not another weekend coming. We just had one a few days ago.

    • R.J.

      I know. Slow down already!