Category: That’s The Spirit
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Sanitizer Sabotage?
Democrats and the media hyped Covid as the deadliest plague ever. Citizens panicked. Hand sanitizer flew off the shelves. Foreign companies rushed to fill the demand. Now, FDA warns us not to use some of those products because they’re contaminated. Even more suffering to lay at the feet of Democrats trying to make life in America…
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Dilemma
On the one hand: cocktails good. On the other hands: “cocktail culture” bad. And the effluvia of “cocktail culture?” Just plain silly. Although two thubs up to the entrepreneurs involved!
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Journalism We Can Use
Journalist tries – and miserably fails – to keep up with Winston Churchill’s daily drinking pace… …and, in the process, indulges in some journalism, popping a few myths about Churchill’s drinking. His celebrated whiskey-and-sodas before noon included just enough whiskey to wet the bottom of the tumbler; his two bottles of champagne a day were…
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Build It And They Will Come
If you follow Great Britain at all, after a while you start to realize that if there’s one thing they’re short of, it’s enough alcohol in their lives. And you wonder; if there was only a way Brits could only get more booze, faster. Well, fear not. While Britain may be a shadow of its former…
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It Apparently Doesn’t Literally “Give You Wings”
Red Bull settles class action suit about its marketing claims. Up next – a class action personal injury/paternity suit against Red Bull and the entire vodka industry.
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Occupy Vatican
Most observers, Catholic or not, recognized the sea-change brought about by Pope Francis I. An Argentinian Cardinal, Francis supposed a move left for the Catholic Church from the days of Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II. While Francis hasn’t shocked many with his bending on social issues, his most boisterous attacks have been on…
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Lipstick/Pig
A slew of bars in New Jersey, including 13 franchised TGI Fridays, were busted for selling caramel-colored rubbing alcohol as top-rail scotch, among other things: At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water – and apparently not even…
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Fumble
The Monday Morning Quaterbacking over electronic gambling heats up. When breaking down the various back-up funding plans for the Vaseline Dome, one step was neglected – the finger pointing. For a funding mechanism that was originally billed to deliver $35 million in revenue per year, and continuously revised down to $17 million and then $1.7,…
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Filtered for His Pleasure
With the clocking ticking closer to midnight on his mayoral legacy, Michael Bloomberg is banning as fast as he can. In the era of “Yes, We Can,” Michael Bloomberg has long staked his legacy on “No, You Can’t.” In the soon-to-be 12 years since he became Gotham’s Technocrat-in-Chief, Bloomberg has managed to ban, or try…
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Two Strikes, You’re Out
Dear NHL, It’s not you. It’s me. We’ve had some fun times, locally. The 1991 North Stars playoff run? Classic (I’ll continue our agreement not to discuss Game Six, however). And that 2003 Minnesota Wild team? Ah, good times. We even overcame some painful memories, like when you left with that Alberta shopping mall developer…
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Jerrymandered
The University of Minnesota redraws the lines of success for Gophers football. Since the state’s introduction to Jerry Kill’s persistent problems with seizures (in what was only his second game, no less), the topic of the health of Minnesota’s football coach has been near verboten by both the University and a complacent media. That may…
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No una oportunidad, los Republicanos
The GOP’s new motto on immigration reform? Yo quiero pander…to all sides of the debate: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Politico that he’s open to giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship in exchange for a temporary moratorium on all legal immigration while they “assimilate.” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a longtime proponent of reform, said…
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Fifty Shades of Biden
Joe Biden isn’t known for subtext – just text. While the national media has treated Biden as something between a 21st Century Spiro Agnew and that crazy uncle who overstays his welcome during the holidays, Republicans have (dare I say?) celebrated Joe’s Bidenisms as occasional forays into the truth. If Barack Obama represents the modern Democratic…
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Six Million Bottles of Beer on The Road, Six Million Bottles of Beer.
I suppose this isn’t the first time beer has stopped traffic. A kilometre-long convoy of beer vats is on the move, shutting down roads and downing hydro and cable lines in its path. Massive vats that can hold six million bottles of beer are being hauled from Hamilton Harbour to a Molson Coors facility near…
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Like A Boy Scout Troup
They’re prepared. …for a “liquor-free” Vikings game in the neighborhood. Value Liquors — which is right next to TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis — tells TMZ they’re preparing for huge business since officials nixed alcohol sales in the college stadium for the matchup with the Chicago Bears. We’re told the store ordered 50 cases of…
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Dear Every Single Twin Cities Liquor Merchant
To: Madames and Sirs From: Mitch Re: Huge Mistake To whom it may concern, Get “Mike’s Hard Limeade” back on your shelves immediately or face the consequences. That is all. Mitch Berg
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Speaking Of The MOB
It’s high time we threw a MOB Winter Party. The MOB has always thrown its parties at Keegans, largely because the group really was born at Keegans; Terry Keegan has always shown bloggers (and, let’s be honest, the Northern Alliance) a lot of love, and it’s only right to show it right back What kind…
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That’s The Spirit
I came across this on my cyber paper route today and it caught my interest as a Scotch/Whiskey/Bourbon drinker (in moderation, of course)… “We can make so much more of malt whisky as an industry,” said Thomson, 54, who submitted plans for local government approval on Nov. 12. “We haven’t even begun to tap into…