Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Author: mexican sharpshooter

  • Just the Tip

    One day I went to a restaurant/bar that my sister worked at in college.  She was just paying her way, and I really just showed up because I didn’t have much anything better to do after work and it didn’t make sense to drive home if I was just going to have to drive back out again to pick her up.  So I ordered a beer and told her to bring the check with her.   Under the gratuity tab I wrote:

    $0.00  HA!!!*

    This is my review of Brasserie Caracoule Nostradamus Belgian Brown Ale

    Earlier this summer, this article from Politico ruffled a few feathers.  It is an editorial discusing a piece of legislation that will not only raise the nation minimum wage to $15, it also contains a provision that will eliminate tipping.

    There’s another provision in the legislation—eliminating the subminimum tipped wage—that corrects a wrong that goes much further back than the previous federal minimum wage increase. For workers regularly making more than $30 a month in tips, employers can currently pay as little as $2.13 an hour. That subminimum wage has been frozen at this level for decades. Should the Raise the Wage Act pass the House, it will mark the first time that either chamber of Congress has moved to eliminate the subminimum wage, which not only deepens economic inequalities but also happens to be a relic of slavery.

    I suppose that makes it problematic the most racist president in American History happens to carry a bunch of $20’s in his back pocket specifically for tips–and it is.  He is supposedly a billionaire, I expect $100’s.  Chances are pretty good he made a fortune in the hospitality industry and knows those workers are often motivated to work hard if he tips well.

    Should’ve shown more leg

    Is the United States emblematic of it’s underlying racism by perpetuating a tipping culture in the services industry?  Lets check in with the supposed most perfect country of them all, and an actual racist country and see if there is a tipping culture there…I guess they showed me.  Or did they?  Chances are the most reasonable explanation for such a disparity between these two countries is—its complicated.  After all, in Japan tipping is considered rude.

    Here’s my problem:  I happen to be a person of color, and while I have experienced casual racism on occasion nobody is lynching me.  From the “inherently racist society” standpoint, sometimes somebody will say something stupid.  To be honest all it really tells me is that person is an idiot, if all they are doing is saying stupid things there is no sense in letting that affect my mood.  From the “inherently racist society therefore racist government” standpoint, some Janet Reno type is not sending anybody to kick down my door, and take me back to where I came from.  Yes, immigration raids are a thing, but given that I’m a natural born citizen that’s not really a concern for me.  Besides, that’s more a symptom of a our quasi-eunuch culture that practically begs for an enormous overbearing bureaucracy to step in, and make things all better…

    The worst I normally experience is from other Mexicans, who assume I primarily speak Spanish based entirely on appearances.  Let’s face it, if I put on a Panama Hat, tuck in a collared shirt, and walk around a bit somebody is going to ask if I need hands on my hacienda.  Its a look I pull off.

    That said, the only way we can fix this is for some to recognize society has moved on from sins of the past.  Was it bad?  Absolutely.  Is it a custom with roots in an unsavory part of history?  Okay fine, yes.  Is it a custom that continues to be justified by this unsavory history?  No, it absolutely is not.  We tip because we know some occupations do not make a particularly affluent living, but it is a living because the expectation is the service they provide can be rewarded IF it is exemplary.  Failure to provide said service in even an acceptable manner, will result in the employer to fire said employee because that service is not particularly difficult and a replacement is easily found.

    People making this argument against tipping culture, conveniently forget the owner of the establishment also loses if the service is bad.  The food may be fantastic, but it doesn’t do anybody any good if I am staring at my empty water glass because I am not presently eating that fantastic meal.  If I should leave, nobody gets paid and the owner is stuck with the cost of the unserved food.  Repeat this process for a year and none of the servers and the owner are without work—because the restaurant is out of business.  But servers in Europe are paid without tips… In my experience, the service and food in France sucked, the service in England and Ireland was good even if the food also sucked.  Guess which countries I was expected to tip?

    Want people to move on from our racist past?  Stop trying to scour every single aspect of culture and society in an attempt to root out a nearly extinct boogeyman.  The rest of us moved on, perhaps you should too.

     

    Is this beer any good?  Hell yeah it is.  It is similar to red label Chimay but does not bear the Trappist mark for those that prefer Catholics not fly their freak flag.  Not quite as good.  What?  Did you think I was going to yammer on about Nostradamus?

    In the year the emperor’s robe turns ablaze. Drink will spill.  The libation bearing my name, flows to enhance the good times they will.

    How is that?  Brasserie Caracoule Nostradamus Belgian Brown Ale 3.8/5

    *Relax, I had $2 in cash on hand and left it on the table.  Not enough to pay for the beer, but plenty for a tip.  Why wouldn’t I tip my own sister?

  • This years suggestions for the sharply dressed orphan.

    This year, plenty more ideas came to mind at Glib HQ for libertarian costumes.  Because if you can’t go around town without insulting somebody, you may as well insult everybody.

    This is my review of Leinenkugel’s Harvest Patch Shandy.

    We’ll put these in no particular order…

    10.  Undead David Koch.

    For this one, a Dracula costume will probably work.  It’ll probably be expensive buying everyone off in the neighborhood.

    9.  The Hat & The Hair

    This is a good couples costume idea, but if you’re going to do it, take it to the next level.  A modified Lidsville costume should prove useful in creeping everyone out.  A standard Cousin It will suffice for the hair, and should prove confusing to everyone under 25.

    8A. Hong Kong Protestor

     

    8B.  Slutty Hong Kong Protestor

    Party like its 1989…

    7.  Steve Bannon

    Trump’s former campaign chairman, or a homeless man?  I don’t know, does it really matter if you can tell the difference?

    6.  Log Cabin Republican

    Because one of you needs an excuse to walk around shirtless in a pair of jorts.

    5.  Hillary Clinton

    Okay, this might just be a Chulthu mask and a Mu-mu  but be honest, have you ever seen Chulthu and Hillary in the same room?  I contend this is not a coincidence!

    4.  John Bolton’s mustache

    Find one of these old man disguises and run around convincing everyone of all the countries we need to bomb.

     

     

    3.  The tooth fairy

    Because why not?

    2.  Justin Trudeau

    Is it donning brown-face if you are simply portraying the infamous, serial brown-face Justin Trudeau?  If that isn’t meta enough, if one accuses you of being racist, inform them you are 1/1024th Indian—as in not Native American!

    1. Slutty Greta

    Did you know the age of consent in Sweden is 15?  We were going to go with Pope Greta the Rheeeeeeeee, but decided if you have the hips and the blank face to pull this one off…

    Leinenkugel for whatever reason thinks it can pull off this whole “Shandy” thing.  It most certainly does not pull off a “pumpkin shandy” in any sense.  It smells like vanilla, and is far too sweet to be called beer.  It does not give me any reason to change my opinion of their shandy line, which remains:  whoever thought of this deserves to be shot.  Leinenkugel’s Harvest Shandy:  1.9/5

  • Enlaces por la tarde. Feliz Lunes!

    *runs in the room*

     

    Okay, I got this.  They called me in like, ten minutes ago.   So here is the news from down south!

    Guatemala:  Trump cuts aid and starves Guatemalans.

    Quilinco sits deep in Guatemala’s western highlands, in an overwhelmingly agrarian region where poverty is high and child malnutrition rates hover around 70%. The region also boasts some of Guatemala’s highest migration rates to the United States. Local farmers say climate change is making it increasingly difficult to get by and is one of the factors pushing people to head north.

    But Quilinco has also benefited from a U.S.-funded program to help farmers adapt and improve their food security. It’s a place where one agricultural aid project’s impact — and the stakes of cutting such aid, as the Trump administration did this past spring — can be seen firsthand.

    To get there, I rode a bus for five hours from Guatemala City and then got a ride in a pickup truck for another hour. The truck bounced up a dusty dirt road that wound up the mountains, through pine trees and a patchwork of little fields of corn and broccoli.

    Virtually everyone in the town makes a living as a farmer, planting corn in the summer for subsistence. In winter, many also plant vegetables such as snow peas and potatoes for export to the United States.

    Farmers and scientists say climate change has been making agriculture more difficult. This year, the problem has been drought. Rain patterns have been more unpredictable, and storms have been stronger. Two years ago, a rare spring hailstorm shredded García Ramos’ corn plants, and he lost the entire crop. In other years, hurricanes have left him with nothing

    Columbia:  A plan agreed upon by Columbia and eight other Latin American countries to convert their economies to run on 70% renewable energy.  This is twice that of the EU.  No mention of mass starvation or economic migration in the article.

    In Bolivia….meh, who cares?  Okay, fine.  This one is funny.

    Trump to Honduran migrants:  “Go back to the shithole you came from.”  (No, not really)

    The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement with Honduras that could force asylum-seekers to seek protection in one of the most dangerous countries in the world instead of the United States, the latest agreement with a Central American country aimed at curbing migration at the southern border.

    The U.S. signed the asylum agreement with Honduras’ foreign minister of affairs, a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security said during a news teleconference Wednesday afternoon.

    The accord would allow the U.S. to send asylum-seekers from the southern border to Honduras to seek relief in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.

    Breaking news:  Rudy Guilianni subpoenaed by the House.  This is not Mexican related.

    More breaking news:  Trump now colluding with Australia!   This is also not Mexican related.

     

     

     

  • The Montage Episode

    This one might wind up being a little bit like a sitcom episode where they just cut and paste parts of past episodes and the characters reflect on it:  “Hey remember that one time we did that thing with the fat guy?

     

    …That was funny.”

    This is my review of Long Beach Brewing Company Channel Keller Vienna Lager (H/T:  Iobot)

    How is this just a montage episode?  September marks one of my favorite times of year as a beer drinker:  Oktoberfest!  Seriously I’ve done a couple of these, one here where I link to a previous article (H/T:  DEG) of a Glib’s previous travels to the festival in Munich, as well as this one where I attempted to recreate the magic.

    How did I do?

    One thing I thought was interesting was when I went to purchase a local version, something curious was written on the label:  “Vienna Lager.”  I thought these were different…turns out I was neither right or wrong.  This style is sometimes considered to be the first lager in existence depending on which brewer got to it first.  One being Gabriel Sadlmeyer from Spaaten and the other being Anton Dreher from the Klein-Schwechat brewery.  The malt both used is copied from a method developed in England using coke to roast the malt, leaving it with a deep, roasted flavor without it being burned.  It predates the Pilsner by a year.  Oktoberfest is the result of seasonal brewing laws in Germany is sometimes referred to as “Marzen” meaning March, because it was the last time brewers were allowed to brew for fear of spoiled beer.  The style cannot be called Oktoberfest unless it was brewed in Munich and served at Oktoberfest.

    Speaking of things I can’t afford.

    It is protected like the town of Glashutte requires a certain percentage of watches to be manufactured in Glashutte in order for the word “Glashutte” to legally appear on the dial.  Then again, somewhere in China somebody is scribbling Glasgütte on a piece of tin…  “Festbier” is sometimes used in the United States to get around this legality for those that care.

    With the exception of the use if Munich or Vienna malts, Oktoberfest, Marzen, Vienna Lager, and Festbier are more or less identical.

    Brewing Vienna Lager fell out of favor to a large degree in Europe, but surprisingly has a large following in Mexico.  As previously reported, Napoleon II went to war with Mexico in the 1860’s when their President Benito Juarez fell behind on interest payments on foreign aid from Spain, England and France.  While he came to an agreement with Spain and England, France decided to send an army to collect.   Following the war that gave us Cinco de Mayo, Napoleon II placed a puppet ruler to keep the trains running, so to speak from the Austrian court.  He brought a few brewers among other craftsman along with him, many of whom chose to remain in Mexico after the Mexicans shot him and left his bloody shirt on display in Mexico City.

    Consequently, Vienna Lager is popular in Mexico.  Examples are Bohemia, Indio, and Negra Modelo.  It should be noted these brands eventually adapted away from the original style and began using flaked corn as an adjunct which is why there are some craft brewers in the southwest that will follow suit in their attempt to recreate.  Such as this one, that for some reason appealed to me.   Overall the Mexican version I find to be more refreshing, and is often described as having a “delicate” flavor profile.

    So how does this one stack up? Very well in my opinion, and this is a style I typically like.  I give them extra points for the full pint can, which is the optimal serving of beer.  After all 500mL is too little, while a full liter is simply too much.  Long Beach Brewing Company Channel Keller Vienna Lager 3.9/5

     

  • Grievance Drinking: Part 2

    If I could find it, I’d try it.  I’d probably save the bottle and out it somewhere on display.  It takes guts to put that guy’s mug on a label with the intent to sell.

    Anyways…this week’s installment discusses issues women have with beer.  Not necessarily what you might think.

    This my review of Singlecut Brewery Eric (moar cowbell!) Milk Stout (H/T:  IoBot).

    TW:  The Gruniad

    Drinks that have fallen victim to crude stereotyping – such as Slack Alice, a cider described as “a little tart” and pump clips featuring scantily-clad buxom women – have been banned from this week’s event at London’s Olympia which is set to attract tens of thousands of visitors.

    The blanket ban goes a step further than a new code of conduct launched by the campaign group last year and is supported by a new YouGov survey which found that 68% of female drinkers would be unlikely to buy a beer if they saw an advert for it using offensive “laddish” imagery.

    The findings suggest British women are now actively boycotting products which reflect out of date and discriminatory attitudes and images associated with an industry traditionally dominated by men.

    […]

    Abigail Newton, the vice-chair of Camra’s national executive, said: “Consumer organisations like Camra have an important role to play in making women feel more welcomed within the beer world. This is the first time we’ve made such a bold statement with a ban.

    “It’s hard to understand why some brewers would actively choose to alienate the vast majority of their potential customers with material likely to only appeal to a tiny and shrinking percentage.

    “We need to do more to encourage female beer drinkers, which are currently only 17% of the population, despite the fact that they make up more than 50% of the potential market. Beer is not a man’s drinks or a woman’s drink, it is a drink for everyone. There is a huge amount of work that needs to be done to overcome outdated stereotypes.”

    It would appear ladies that like beer happen to occur within a certain segment of the market that also does not like disparaging labels against women.  If you need a good idea of how many women happen to be enthusiastic beer drinkers, here is a picture of the most recent Beer With(out) Beards festival, which is geared for female-owned breweries, reported with 700 people attending.  Granted this number probably beats most libertarian conventions, but the photo in the link shows an awful lot of men in the crowd.  I am not sure what the Gruniad is trying to argue here.  Women don’t drink beer because they’re offended by the label and thus the industry must cater to their outrage by giving it a label with rainbows instead of flaming skulls?

    Perhaps the reason beer is not marketed to women, is the overwhelming majority of beer drinkers are men?  I’m not one of those marketing geniuses or anything so in case somebody here might be in marketing…

    At any rate this beer delivers all the cowbell Bruce Dickinson can possibly want.  If you have no idea what I am talking about, here is a link, and please consider getting out some more.  Its a traditional take on the English Milk Stout, and does it very well. Singlecut Brewery Eric (moar cowbell!) Milk Stout:  3.9/5

  • Grievance Drinking: Part 1

    Apparently people are easily offended.  While it is not necessarily a new idea, to be outraged is to be fashionable, and nobody wants to be accused of being unfashionable.

    This is my review of Brewery Terreux Sour in the Rye

    Neither offends me, does that make me an asshole? Or does that just make me an adult?

    The first place we find it is in this Time article that discusses the outrage native Marshall Islanders feel for a beer known as Bikini Atoll by the Manhattan Project Brew Company out of Dallas.   One thing to point out about this particular beer company is their theme of naming beer after things related to nuclear weapons–hence the name Manhattan Project Beer Co.

    If you are unfamiliar with the history behind the Manhattan Project, here is a link…then go ahead and find a wooden plank for which to strike yourself in the face for not knowing what the Manhattan Project is.  It actually IS something they still teach in school…

    The company, which takes its name from the WWII research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons and has named other beers “Necessary Evil” and “Plutonium-239,” noted that they would take “no further action in this matter.”

    Which is the action they should take on this.  If somebody is offended by what is on the label or cares that why somebody might be offended by it, simply don’t purchase it.  Unfortunately it never is that simple, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands is demanding an apology from the company in question.  Here’s the thing, I am confident the current generation of Americans doesn’t actually know what the Bikini Atoll is.  They probably just assume it has something to do with the swimsuit—and to be fair they’d be right.

    Not my photo of a woman in a bikini in 1953.

    That said, 2/3 of  the same generation in question doesn’t know what Auschwitz was.  I am very confident I could ask a random person where the US tested atomic weapons and they’d probably just say New Mexico—and to be fair they’d be right.  Instead of being outraged at the cultural insensitivity of a now little known historical fact perhaps they should instead realize how obscure their story is and be happy that somebody recognized the tragedy for what it is.

    Unfortunately, this beer is not available to me locally so I am unable to try it for myself.  Being a Gose, I am nearly certain it will offend my senses.  This one by Brewery Terraux does not disappoint in that regard.  It is needlessly sour.  Likely made in a manner that I assume government scientists would create if they were given nearly unlimited resources and told to create something that will be sold in grocery stores catering to high income customers, and commits the largest possible atrocity while fitting conveniently within the confines of a single bomber.

    The use of rye does not make it any more palatable, or enjoyable for me in any way.  Brewery Terreux Sour in the Rye 2.2/5

  • Sunday Evening Coming Attractions

    Alright so for those of you that decided today was not a day to watch football…I am not included in this. I’ll be quick.

    This weeks coming attractions!

    Monday:  Morning Links, Midday by Animal, Afternoon Links, and maybe an evening post.  I dunno, we’re competing with Monday Night Football.

    Tuesday:  Morning Links, Midday by Tonio, Afternoon Links

    Sugarfree. Now here’s a guy that…um…sorry….It’s been a while since I got a boner…

    Wednesday:  Morning Links, Sugarfree’s family funhouse, Afternoon links, Evening crossword by Don Escaped Texas.

    Thursday:  Now it gets murky.  I can guarantee morning and afternoon links.  You might get an SNP, or something.  You know Kindsbury.  If you didn’t play this “secret offense” bullshit and actually ran a few reps during preseason…your quarterback might not be sacked by his own right tackle?  Just throwing that out there. So SNP…I don’t control that.

    Friday:  Even murkier.  You’ll get links.  You’ll get ZARDOZ, STEVE SMITH, or Winston’s Mom or something. Dangit!  Wide open!?  This is DETROIT,  you are getting owned by DETROIT.

    Oh nice.  Fitz’s streak:  continues!

  • There are no laws…

    Once again, I have to apologize to everyone here.  Depending on what sociologist you ask, I happen to be a millennial.  As many of you know, millennials ruin everything.  Which means I am going to go ahead and ruin this.  I will now brace myself for the onslaught of rotten cabbage you are all getting ready to throw at me…

    This is my review of Natural Light Aloha Beaches Hard Seltzer.

    I know what half of you are thinking:  “This isn’t beer.  Now these cucks want us to drink a shot of vodka dropped into bubbly water?  No way no how…”  A quarter of you are probably wondering how this is even marketable, 10% of you haven’t even read this far and skipped directly to comments, finally the last 15% of you have decided that it is good Natural Light decided to drop the mask and admit what they are selling is just water.

    So for that 25% of you curious why this is marketable…

    Hard Seltzer is not really a new concept.  Cocktails like the Gin & Tonic, the Vodka Tonic, or even the Scotch & Soda have been around for decades.  What makes it new is putting it into a can and marketing it as a lower calorie option to beer or wine.  In a sense it is lower in calories.  The typical White Claw for example is 100 calories per 12 ounce serving.  The alcohol is normally just white rum so there is hardly any flavor aside from the carbonation and the light, fruity flavoring they can add to it but it can be plain if one is that boring.

    This bro drinks White Claw

    This is what has won over the Bro Culture.  Seriously, you know those guys in their 20’s with their popped collars, imitation wayfarers, short pink shorts, and boating shoes without socks are drinking?  Hard seltzer.

    This bros girlfriend…also drinks White Claw

    How and why?  Because of the perception that beer is high in calories, and this is a better option from that standpoint.  Sort of like vaping—is it actually “good” for you to vape?  Probably not, but they are not marketing it as a “good” option but it is certainly a better option than smoking cigarettes.  The garden variety Pilsner for example is around 150 calories–yes even the supposedly better ones from Germany.  Light beer is around 100 and the ultralights are even lower, but at that point you are just drinking 3% abv(or less) and you may as well be drinking water.  The aforementioned White Claw is consistent at 5.5% abv, does not taste like watered down beer, and can be chugged right before you have to meet your mother-in-law without her knowing you’re a lush.

    So it is the “Bro Market” players like Four Loko and Natural Light are trying to penetrate by offering, in the case of Four Loko, an absurd 14% abv.  Are these bubbly water drinks really any good?  I can get into it in occasion and should I find the Four Loko version I will most certainly discuss it.  One thing I noticed is these tend to hit me a bit quicker than beer, but I also recover from it quicker than beer as well.  The Natural Light version comes in two flavors, the one I picked was mango mostly out of lack of options at the store in California where I purchased it.  It is overpowering—the mango flavor, that is. I believe the perfect combination with this particular hard seltzer is actually a shaker of Taijin, because grilled mango with a light brush of butter, topped with Taijin is absolutely delicious.

    Chances are pretty good, you hate everything about every word I just described, if so this is not for you.  Your 24 year old son living in your basement?  Sure, otherwise this is not for you.  Natural Light Aloha Beaches Hard Seltzer:  1.5/5

  • Sticks and Stones

    There is only so far somebody can go until they piss off the wrong guy…girl…something.  Recently Dave Chappelle made a splash with his new comedy special on Netflix titled, Sticks and Stones.  Not everybody liked it, especially this individual at Vice. In fact this individual goes so far as to suggest you skip the special unless of course you happen to be transphobic and/or a misogynist.  Lets be real, in this case and is probably what this individual thinks is most appropriate.

    This is my review of Chatham Brewery Farmers Daughter Rye IPA.  (H/T Iobot)

    What was the problem with Chappelle’s Netflix special?  Nothing, to be honest I only found three or four parts to the whole hour to make me physically laugh, although I could see the humor in the rest of it (I’m a curmudgeon).  Dave went too far in the opinion of the individual writing for Vice, and while this individual is entitled to this individual’s opinion, I happen to be entitled to my own.  Free speech and butt-fucking? What a country!

    Chapelle’s controversial 2017 Netflix specials, like The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium and Equanimity and the Bird Revelation, honed his voice as a comedian wary of progressive criticism. That voice is even sharper in his latest special. At one point in his routine, he says he doesn’t believe Michael Jackson molested young children. He continues by saying that if Jackson did, the children should’ve felt lucky their first time was with the King of Pop, adding, “Do you know how good it must’ve felt to go to school the next day after that shit?” Chappelle also returned to his now-infamous obsession with making fun of trans people, saying, “[trans people] hate my fucking guts and I don’t blame them. […] I can’t stop writing jokes about these niggas.” This time, those jokes included asking the audience how funny it would be if he was actually a Chinese person stuck inside a Black man’s body, which (you guessed it) also included a racist impression of a Chinese person. He also found time to defend fellow controversial comedians Kevin Hartand Louis C.K., painting them as victims of an overzealous callout culture.

    I too have written about Michael Jackson but I did not make light of it the way Dave does in his special.  I found many of the jokes crude but well within what I have come to expect from Dave.  This is the guy who  wrote an entire sketch about a blind black man in the south who believed he was white, donned actual KKK attire, and shouted WHITE POWER on the pilot episode.  This ultimately doomed his show that only lasted two seasons.

    Why?  Because how do you top that?  I was laughing so hard, I was in tears the first time I watched it in my freshman dorm room.

    The individual writing for Vice focuses on one bit.  Dave refers to a movement, the Alphabet People.  Here he compares the entire movement to a car being driven by “G”, because they are the most privileged and therefore best suited to drive the movement to its ultimate destination.  The “L”?  Nobody has a problem with them…except the “G”.  The “B”?  Well…”B” is the fantasy everyone wants in on, isn’t it?

    Then there is the “T”.  The entire movement is held up by “T”, because quite frankly they are farthest deviation from the mean.  If you want to know the punchline, I suggest you find it on Netflix.

    Here is what the individual writing for Vice doesn’t appear to understand.

    Dave Chappelle’s entire brand is Gallows Humor.  This type of humor is healthy, because it allows an outlet for people that find themselves being oppressed, imprisoned, at war, being tortured, or even just at a funeral to seek psychological refuge from what is driving their misery.  Humor is derived from that which is true, and mocking it–it is healthy.  Is it wrong there are people that do not accept the Alphabet People?  Yes.  Is it okay for somebody to identify a particular reason why a certain segment of the Alphabet People and poke fun at why?  Again, yes.

    This is what comedians do.

    Since the individual writing for Vice also spent time on the epilogue after the special where Dave tells an audience a story about transwoman (…that is one of these for those of you confused by the terms) found delight in Dave’s bit about the Alphabet People.  Here the transwoman tells Dave she wished more people would make jokes about ‘T” because it “normalizes” them.  This does make sense to a degree.  A good example of this may be in the character Cpl Maxwell Q. Klinger from M*A*S*H*.  Did he crossdress on purpose as part of a long running gag?  Yes.  In spite of his hating the Army, his job, and doing everything he could to get out of the Army the other characters did make fun of him for wearing a dress but they respected him because he did his job anyway and did it well.  Klinger is a beloved character for that reason, and a man in a dress is fairly normal because the character is funny. The individual writing for Vice does not believe this actually happened–even if a photo of the transwoman was placed in the credits.

    Like anything else controversial, don’t take my word for it or some individual writing for Vice.  Watch it and decide for yourself.

    This beer is also unusual.  It straddles a line between differing styles and ends up with an enjoyable product.  IPA by itself offends a lot of people, but by using rye malts results in something much more balanced, and much more interesting.   I like rye, I don’t like IPA but the combination is good.  Chatham Brewery Farmer’s Daughter Rye IPA:  4.0/5

     

  • ¡Buenas Tardes muchachos! ¡Es timepo para Enlaces Mexicanos!

    Brett is having technical difficulties today.  Apparently has been in talks with a group of Bellarussian chemistry students located out of a small operation in Bolivia.  Let’s just say, they have good stuff.

    Now for the links down south!

    Brazilian president Brazilian Trump Jair Bolsonaro rejects an offer of $22 Million from the G-7 to fight the fires in the Amazon Rainforest  in private farms and ranches adjacent to the Amazon Rainforest.  His response to Macron was…brutal.

    Bolsonaro made those remarks to reporters in Brasilia shortly after the website G1 reported that the president’s chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, had rejected the offer outright.

    “Thanks, but perhaps these resources are more relevant to reforesting Europe,” Lorenzoni was quoted saying. Referring to the recent Notre Dame blaze in Paris, he went on to suggest that if Macron cannot “avoid a predictable fire in a church,” he might not have much to teach to Brazil.

    The BBC asks:  Why does nobody care about the same Amazon fires in Bolivia?   1.  It’s Bolivia, who care?  2.  Bolivia is currently governed by an “agreeable” technocrat, who  is currently taking it up with the courts there to abolish the term limits and seek a 4th term as president.

    Guess what time of year it is?  Yup, that’s right.  Its time for Trump to take a dump all over hurricane plagued Puerto Ricans!  YEAH!

    Recent ICE Raids made possible through GPS tracking and surveillance technology.  This troubles immigration advocates.

    “It’s troubling to us that people who are released are being tracked for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they’re likely to appear for their court cases or abscond,” said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

    The search warrants for the food processing plants in Mississippi said undocumented immigrants previously released from ICE detention facilities on electronic monitoring were found at plants operated by all five of the companies targeted in the operation. ICE targeted seven facilities operated by A&B, Koch Foods, Peco Foods, PH Food and Pearl River Foods.

    LOL.  That’s terrible.  Now do it for everyone else being tracked for reasons having nothing to do with appearing in court.

    Speaking of famous Mexicans in the news–Alt-right harbinger of hatred Pepe the Frog is back …in Hong Kong.

    Last but not least, this has nothing to do with Mexico, but Ilhan Omar is in the news again for marriage related shenanigans.

    The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

    “The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar,” the court papers say.

    Beth Mynett told her husband that she still loved him and was “willing to fight for the marriage” even after his admission, according to the court papers. The pair had been living together for six years before marrying in 2012, the filing said.

    This is best timeline….EVER!

    Splinter explains, How to Disarm America.

    Music inspired by future events in Puerto Rico.