Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

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  • Q’s Brain Toilet: Episode 2

    Gather ‘round children, it’s time for another exciting installment of Q’s brain toilet!  It may be snowy and cold outside, but my tortured neurons are just getting warmed up.  So let’s jump right in.

    MGTOW: Pathetic Losers, Misogynists or Canaries in the Coal Mine?

    First off, MGTOW is something I could never do.  There’s no way I could live without nourishing my soul by drinking from the well of feminine soft sweetness.  Sure, there are plenty of crazy bitches out there (just as there are plenty of imbalanced doods), but after a certain age and experience level, I’d like to think that a person can get better at spotting the true nutballs and avoiding them.  And if you get fooled and roped in by one… oh well, shit happens.  You play, you pay (another one of my personal mottoes).  

    However, I will say that I would consider myself a MGTOW sympathizer on some level.  After watching several videos produced by self-proclaimed MGTOW, I would say that the majority of them are making a rational, thoughtful choice based on a personal cost-benefit analysis.  Feminism, the Pill and openly misandric family courts have upended male and female relations to such an extent that, at least until people truly adapt to the situation (probably in a few generations), I can understand how a man would come to the rational conclusion that opting out is the safest and most reasonable course of action.  The rub here is that maximizing safety is not always the best way to go through life, and there are plenty of people who think that the only reason these guys “go MGTOW” is that they can’t get a girl anyway so they cover up their inadequacy by claiming that it’s a choice (hence the “pathetic loser” label).  There also are some genuine misogynists in the community, though I would say that the vast majority of apparent woman-haters have been legitimately screwed over by a specific woman or set of women and make a category error of ascribing evil motives to all women.  I will say that I think the problem will get worse before it gets better (if it ever does) and many men will take a MGTOW-like path even if they don’t formally ascribe to the philosophy.  So in answer to the question, MGTOW are all of the above.

    One final point addressing criticism of the group that they gather online to constantly talk about women.  If you’re walking away from opposite sex relations, then why obsessively talk about them all the time?  My theory on that is MGTOW primarily acts like a support group for men in recovery.  The desire for sex, love and companionship is so fundamental that consciously choosing to walk away from it is extremely difficult and daunting; akin to an alcoholic walking away from alcohol, but from a healthy, even stronger, drive.  Therefore, MGTOW groups are like AA meetings and one could make the same criticism; if these AA people are trying to quit drinking, why do they talk about it so much?

    Supplements Galore!

    As many of you may have surmised, I am a great proponent of better living through chemistry.  Capitalism and human innovation has provided us with a cornucopia of options to enhance, modify and optimize our physical and mental abilities, so why wouldn’t you take advantage.  This section will focus on my favorite OTC supplements.  Future Brain Toilets may touch on prescriptions, but I’m not sure about liability in that case and would need to confer with the Overlords (if you’re feeling bold, go here for your favorite prescription meds).

    Yohimbine: I relentlessly evangelize for this, but only because I’m a true believer in its amazing sexual powers.  If I’m anticipating a particularly boisterous bedroom session, I’ll pop a capsule an hour before, then break open another one about 20 minutes before and take about half sublingually.  PDE5 inhibitors like Viagra may help the flag get to full staff, but Yohimbine will make the big finish so explosive that it’s like unleashing a tsunami.  You may just feel like passing out and your partner(s) will be greatly impressed by the increased volume of “output”.  Women can get in on the fun too as it’s been reported to me it turned her into an “orgasm machine”.  Side effects  at high doses can be uncomfortable (racing heart, sweats, chills, anxiety) so start slow.

    Diphenhydramine: AKA Benadryl.  Sticking with the sexual side of things, if you are unfortunate enough to suffer from premature ejaculation (or you just feel like having an extra long session), popping a Benadryl about 30 minutes will effectively delay climax and give you more control over when it happens.  Side effects are well known, so unless you want to be falling asleep on her instead of servicing her, tread lightly.

    DHEA: This is a testosterone precursor that is (inexplicably) legal and OTC.  If you like it, I’d stockpile it before the DEA decides it’s eeeeeeeevul and poleaxes it.  This basically works like a kinder, gentler anabolic steroid.  Good for weight loss, increased muscle mass/gym performance and even elevating mood.  Women get all these benefits plus a raging libido and a “magic vagina”.  Taking too much has similar side effects to steroids; acne, mood swings and possibly lowered fertility.  Don’t take it longer than 4 weeks at a time without a 2 week break.

    5-HTP: This is a chemical precursor to Serotonin so at higher doses it can work on depression in a similar way to an SSRI, but with a completely different mechanism of action.  At lower doses, it just promotes relaxation.  This can be serious stuff though, so I’d recommend asking your doctor before taking it (especially if you’re already on antidepressants).

    Commieball 101

    As a preface, I can completely understand why some people think soccer is boring, especially if you don’t watch it much and aren’t familiar with the strategy.  It’s low-scoring, can be (apparently) slow and doesn’t have the rigid structure of more traditionally American sports.  This isn’t trying to convince anyone to watch it, just explain why I love it and it’s played such a big part in my life.

    To my eyes, the moniker “beautiful game”, clichéd as it may be, is entirely accurate.  I believe it is the sport that most closely mirrors life itself in all its beauty.  There can be stretches of boredom and torpidity (though I like to think of these stretches as deliberation) but they are always punctuated by bursts of excitement, speed and energy.  While the object is definitely to score, it’s not the centerpiece of the joy in watching.  It’s about the strategy, teamwork and skill.  The journey is more important in many ways than the destination and the free-flow lack of structure gives great freedom to players.  An individual contributor can have an effect on a game, but one star player is never enough to win single-handedly without support from his family (team).  Similarly, team cohesion almost always beats individual skill and flashiness.  On a practical level, the amount of conditioning and stamina required is monumental with the average professional running 7 miles each game, much of that sprinting.  In high school, we practiced on a field right next to the football team and always chuckled at their “conditioning training” which consisted of running 50 yards then taking a 5 minute break.  Boxing Day is one of my favorite days of the year in which I can rise early, head to a bar and drink beer and watch the Premiership all day long.

    That’s All Folks!

    Another installment of Q’s Brain Toilet is on the books, hope you enjoyed it.  It’s like a wart, it’ll just keep coming back until someone freezes or cauterizes me. 

     

  • I Used to be a Libertarian, but then someone did something I don’t like

    5 years ago I would proudly pronounce that I was a Libertarian to anyone who would listen. I still remember how good it would feel to be an enigma during political debates. Just as someone would think they had me figured out as a conservative, I’d drop drug legalization on them. If someone thought I leaned left, I would quickly bring up the need for fiscal responsibility.

    This was all well and good until one day at work 5 months ago. I was out to lunch with some co-workers, when we started talking about a recent firing. One of my co-workers remarked that she knew about the firing beforehand, the CEO had told her about it a few months in advance. I was disgusted. My co-worker was not a manager and had no business knowing about the employment status of my fired friend. Not only was this unprofessional, it was morally wrong.

    That night I met up with my cop friend and asked him about it. When he said that there was no crime in what the CEO had done, I was incredulous. “Aren’t you a libertarian?” he asked, “Don’t you believe that the CEO is free do do what he wants?”. Almost immediately my heart filled with dread. I quickly said goodbye to my friend and went home.

    For the next few days I struggled with my beliefs. Had I been wrong all along? I liked a lot of what libertarianism is about, but I hadn’t realized that it meant people could do anything, including things I really didn’t like. After many painful hours I came to the conclusion that I had to cast off my erroneous beliefs. Just as a scientist must discard a theory once it has been proven wrong. Clearly libertarianism can’t be right if it could be used to justify things I knew were wrong.

    Unfortunately libertarianism is growing in popularity, and becoming ever more powerful. It permeates our political and social lives. Many people feel disoriented arguing with them, so I want to provide them with 3 arguments that will shut-up any libertarian.

    1. We live in a Libertarian Utopia:
    This is quite a powerful argument, as it quickly puts the perennially whining freedom lovers on defense. Libertarians like to say they have little to no political power in the United States. But as soon as you point out that there are thousands of things you don’t like that are still legal, they will be scratching their heads. Some libertarians are adamant that the United States is not a libertarian paradise. Very well, quietly point out that places like Libya, Syria and Iraq had their governments destroyed, and now they are terrible places.

    Plastic Straws prove Libertarian patriarchy!

     

    2. Libertarians don’t have a plan:
    Everyone is a critic, but only the truly inspired can come up with a plan. This is a good argument to bring up when you are talking about a plan to right an injustice in the world. Often a libertarian will bring up hypothetical issues or highlight some imperfections (as if we ever thought our plans would be perfect). But if you challenge them to come up with a solution they will often dodge the question by saying we should “Leave it to individuals to work out voluntarily”. Don’t they see that’s what got us into the mess in the first place?

    Libertarian plan for the future

    3. Libertarianism is Irrational:
    This is a fantastic argument. Most libertarians deem themselves the most rational people in the world. Well quickly point out to them that by leaving things to Individuals they are advocating the least rational plan. Clearly just letting the chaos of the market “sort it out” will result in inefficiencies, but if we take a step back and look at what is going on we can come up with a rational plan to fix the things we don’t like in society. Rationalism requires that we abandon libertarian thought.

  • I AM A SAINT! (and everyone else, well…)

    NOT Jarflax, but rather Saint Isidore of Seville – the Patron Saint of the Internet

    A Jarflax Rant

    I have been surfing the web and it seems that there are a lot of stupid opinions and beliefs.  You have your (((Joos))), Christers, Buddha Botherers, Holy Cow Heroes, Mohammedans, and even those damn Mormons (no one could be that nice unless they were up to something).  You have your Pinkos, Reactionaries, Progs, and those evil Glibertarians.  And all of you bastards are stubbornly refusing to recognize obvious reality!  Is it that you are all evil conspirators trying to take my stuff and make me a slave? That you like to see orphans selling themselves for a crust of bread?  Or is it that you are all retarded and can’t see what is as plain as the nose on your collective face?  Why can’t all the other 7.5 billion of you see TRUTH as clearly as me?

    Every problem has a neat solution.  Every situation is made difficult by easily identifiable malice, and could be perfectly smooth, just, and simple if the evil obstructionists would stop deliberately disrupting things.  If you want wisdom buy me a fair trade latte or a PBR and sit with me as I sneer it out, one snarky epigram at a time.  Just don’t be one of those assholes who doesn’t understand conversational etiquette!    I talk/you listen, capisce?  Do not ask me to enact your labor!  Google it yourself!  I am emitting wisdom, not being your research assistant!

    Also if you voted for the Cheetoman, the Gangster in the Mao suit, some election spoiling third party wasted vote candidate, or were too lazy to vote at all you are an asshole and one of the evil obstructionists, so don’t think your imperialist earholes get to drink my sweet wisdom.

    If you believe in Jesus you want to watch womyn bleed out in back alleys while piles of beaten gay corpses fill the gutters.  If you do not believe in God you want pedophiles to sodomize toddlers, at clinics where mandatory abortions are performed by perverts that are married to camels!  If you are Muslim you are either planning a bombing or are reading this as you leave the scene.  If you are a (((Jew))) it is all your fault. If you are some other weird religion, you are lying!

    If you like country, western or metal you are a Nazi racist.  If you like pop you are a pervert. If you like classical you are a pretentious closet pedo.  If you like hip hop you are a rapist. If you like something else you are lying!

    If you are male you are a rapist and probably a murderer.  If you are female you are an emotion driven castrating whore.  If you are neither you are probably both.

    In short everyone who disagrees with me is doing so because they are evil!

     

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    People have a very hard time distinguishing disagreement from malice, particularly in areas of belief. Religion and Politics are essentially similar belief based conceptions of reality.  They inspire strong emotions, and inculcate an Us vs. Them mentality, leading to anger… Which is why they were traditionally excluded as conversation topics from polite gatherings.

    Some of this is unavoidable, and will always be the case.  People get very emotionally connected to core beliefs and any attack on those beliefs, or even strong disagreement, hits us in the same way a personal attack hits.  But I think some aspects of modern life have made this worse.

    The internet and social media expose us to the worst spokespeople for ideas.  In earlier times when you were interested in a subject, or a viewpoint you sought out books or articles explaining it.  You might agree with what you read or disagree.  You might find parts of the idea appealing and others appalling, but it was an impersonal interaction, and under your control.  You read the book or article and any dispute you had with it was internal.  If it was too offensive, or too idiotic you just put the book down unfinished.  If it didn’t interest you, simply never read about it.  Various curating bodies/effects tended to select for the best, most appealing spokes people being the most widely read.

    Even then you had people who would try to force you to learn about their pet beliefs.  We called those people cranks or bores, and we never invited them to a second party.  Now every ‘movement’ or belief has militant advocates.  They bring their pet belief into EVERY conversation, and because they are ubiquitous they are usually the first contact you have with an unfamiliar belief.

    Vegetarianism is an utterly inoffensive practice.  How can your diet possibly harm or insult me?  But I cringe when I hear that someone is Vegan, because I have had dozens of interactions with people who militantly proselytize the Vegan ‘lifestyle’, not as a diet they have chosen but as “The One Truly Moral Way to Live.”

    Across the dietary divide you find the Paleos.  They think veganism is foolish, possibly an evil conspiracy of Big Grain and that we can only achieve health (and cure every ill of body mind and soul) by eating a largely carnivorous, low carb, high fat/protein, ancestral diet. If you disagree (which you can do simply by not immediately and unequivocally accepting every bit of pseudo science they spout as TRVTH), they will harangue you until you leave the forum.

    As you turn away from the Paleo, who is beating the Vegan to death with a jar of ghee, Mr. Crossfit hobbles over on his crutches (blown tendon bro, do you even lift?) to tell you what a pussy you are for not exercising to the point of regurgitation.  Fleeing Mr. Crossfit you encounter Ms. Antivax, who explains that the $30 DPT shot is a plot by Big Pharma to make your kids autistic, and announces that if you vaccinate you are in a parenting category with Jeffrey Epstein.

    You don’t learn about Christianity from C.S. Lewis or G.K Chesterton; instead you learn about it from Frank Fundy who mocks you for being duped by the lies of the ‘Evolutionists’, and accuses you of molesting children if you meekly say you do not see why gay people shouldn’t be allowed to adopt.

    Turning away from Mr. Fundy you run into a flame war between Moishe who regards any disapproval, of any Jew, in any context, as clear evidence of NSDP membership, and Ackbar who screams that allowing Moishe to live is an unforgiveable offense against the religion of peace.  Meanwhile some 4chan’er is pretending to actually be a Nazi purely to rile up some SJW who dropped by the forum to berate all cis-hetero males for their inherent privilege. And an atheist is making very sure that you understand that he doesn’t believe in God, by announcing that only retards need a “Sky Daddy.”

    All of this is probably happening in a thread discussing your favorite hobby!  You don’t seek it out, it comes to you everywhere.  Reading about home brewing?  BOOM Atheism! Playing a Video Game?  WHAM Social Justice.  Looking up a recipe? POW Jesus/Allah/Jehovah loves/hates/owns you.  If you try to disengage gently the militants get offended.  If you dispute their premises they go ad hominem and call in sock puppets/allies/tulpae to pursue you across a dozen domains.

    Of course people end up feeling that anyone who disagrees with them is their enemy when every dispute becomes a personal attack.  Which of course makes the next set of people react with hostility when you disagree with them. So, this whole mess propagates itself.

    At the end of the day most people are not militants.  This is why in day to day life you find that you have friends and acquaintances who don’t actually believe the same things you do, but who are nonetheless decent people you enjoy knowing.  But online the trolls and the true believers come into their own, and God (or not, I don’t really care what you believe) help us all.

  • Q’s Brain Toilet

    Introduction

    Welcome to the inaugural installment of Q’s Brain Toilet; a collection of vignettes designed to demonstrate the random thoughts that flutter in and out of the Hell that is my cranium. My aim is to amuse, inform and, primarily, to inflict upon you the excrement produced by my cerebrum; because misery loves company. If people like it, and it pleases the Overlords, maybe this can become a semi-regular feature? Maybe? In any case, on with the show!

    Political Nihilism: Legitimate Philosophy or Cop-out?

    We Glibs comprise a loose association of philosophically similar individuals who are by no means ideologically homogeneous. Some call themselves yokeltarians, others an-caps, still others Objectivists; it runs the gamut. While I have evolved over time from a more traditional Republican in my younger days to a card carrying LP member and then to a decidedly small-l libertarian, more recently I find myself landing on what I call Political Nihilism. In many ways, I’m still a run-of-the-mill libertarian; I zealously believe in the NAP as a guiding principle of political ethics, I consider the government to be an embodiment of violence and put primary focus on individual rights and liberty. I also love ass-sex (only with ladies, sorry guys). However, I’ve come around to the thought that no matter how many limitations you place on government it will, like water in a mountain stream, find ways around them. It might take a while, but it will happen. The Founders in the US did a pretty bang up job trying to decentralize power, limit government authority and emphasize individual freedom. We see how in just 240 years it’s been chipped down into a shadow of its former self and all indications are that it will be reduced to rubble in the short to medium term. I’ve said that the right amount of government is like the right amount of cancer, so wouldn’t it stand to reason that anarcho-capitalism would be the solution? Unfortunately, I think an-cap is just as utopian as communism. I think it quickly devolves into might-makes-right with no respect for individual liberty. Where does that leave us? Well, nothing works long term. But I suppose that’s expected; like Fight Club says, given a long enough timeline, everyone’s life expectancy goes to zero. It was fun while it lasted.

    Female Ejaculation vs. Squirting

    Any connoisseur of the finer erotic streaming sites (as I know you all are) has surely come across videos of women ecstatically expelling large amounts of fluid during orgasm. This is often termed “female ejaculation”. I’m here to relieve and correct you of your wrongitude. Female ejaculation is a milky white secretion emitted during orgasm from the Skene’s glands, sometimes (stupidly) called the female prostate. The amount is similar to male ejaculation (1 – 5 mL) and has a similar composition to semen (with no sperm, obviously). Squirting or gushing is what is typically portrayed in porn movies and is actually a type of orgasmic incontinence. A study performed bladder ultrasounds on women who regularly squirt. Their bladders were confirmed empty prior to masturbation, then reexamined at a level of high sexual excitement to find the bladder had rapidly filled up. After climax (and attendant Old Faithfulness), the bladder was confirmed empty again. Analysis of the fluid revealed a composition similar to highly dilute urine, but with a curiously higher fructose content. For those who haven’t accomplished/experienced this kind of fun before, here is a how-to guide (seriously, majorly, utterly NSFW; not kidding, do not click).

    Womb Envy?

    I’ve written pretty extensively (ad nauseum in fact) on what I see as the intrinsic differences between men and women (shameless self promotion). That long-winded piece does a pretty good job, I think, of summing up why more men are failing to launch, falling behind in school, professionally and generally in life. Misandry from feminist policy making aside, men don’t have to excel anymore to get laid. The supply of pussy went up and the price came down. It also outlines that women are generally dissatisfied with the dating landscape due to giving up their leverage on the sexual marketplace. However, what accounts for monotonically declining female happiness in a more general, existential sense? This again, I believe, is an unintended consequence of the Sexual Revolution. In spite of propaganda to the contrary, women have always been part of the workforce, it’s just that in bygone days that work was primarily done in the home. Try telling any mother that raising children, cleaning, preparing meals and generally keeping life from falling apart isn’t work and you’re likely to get an open palm across the face. Additionally, women may not have entered the workforce outside the home en masse until post-Sexual Revolution, but there were still a fair number who did work before. My great-grandmother for example, graduated from college in the ’20s and worked for Union County, New Mexico as a “domestic assistant”. Essentially this meant she traveled to country folk and taught them the basics of canning food, haberdashery, general domestic skills and basic personal finance. This profession is something that contemporary feminists would deride contemptuously, but I’d like to see them do any of those things. At any rate, it’s not the work itself that has made women unhappy, I fully support people (and that includes women) pursuing whatever goals they want. What has made them unhappy is that work, as defined by feminism, has not complemented domestic life, but supplanted it. For a man, if he’s lucky, he has a job he can tolerate. For a significant portion, it’s pointless and soul-sucking drudgery; only a tiny minority really love and feel passionate about work. What makes it worthwhile for a man is the fact that the drudgery is in service of a much greater project; the support and sustenance of hearth and home. That’s what makes him get up each morning and do things he’d rather not do. You see, men’s work has never been a substitute for domestic life, it’s an integral part of it. Creating and raising children is just about the only thing in existence that lies at the intersection of our biological, sexual, intellectual and spiritual natures. It is the primary purpose of our silly little lives at the most basic level. Feminists, thinking that male work was an end to itself, sold the idea to women that entering the workforce “like a man” would lead to more life satisfaction. They grievously misunderstood that working for a man has a higher purpose to the home and that work, in and of itself, is often not very satisfying. Women largely relegated domestic life to the back burner, if not chucking it altogether, thinking that career, money and professional power would provide happiness by itself. Unfortunately, this approach has largely failed. This is not to discourage women from working or encourage men to become Mr. Mom. There are a zillion different ways to skin a domestic cat. It’s a critique that, for the vast majority of humanity, child-rearing and family must take the central role in life for maximum happiness for both men and women, whatever else may have peripheral roles.

    TTFN

    Well, that’s it for this pilot installment of Q’s Brain Toilet. If you want more, say so in the comments. Likewise, if you hate it and want me to crawl back under the rock from whence I came, say that. Or don’t read it and skip down to the comments. Whatever.

  • Enter the Twatter!

    Last Friday Twitter Founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey was interviewed by Joe “that’s a complex issue” Rogan.  Should you be of a mind to actually listen to the podcast, the YouTube link is here:  Joe Rogan Experience #1236

    …but be warned.  It is two hours long, Joe is in an exceptionally passive mood, and Jack is pretty much the pompous bullshitter you expect him to be.

    This is my review of Pizza Port Brewery Bacon and Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter.

    To my understanding, Joe has a bit of a marmite effect around here.  Much of the criticism of Rogan’s show is that he rarely challenges his guest, accepts facts from his guests with little question, engages in conspiracy theory, and overall he can be a bit of a meathead.  It is the first item here I wish to focus.  The reason I like his show, aside from constantly having UFC fighters on the show, is Joe does not drive the conversation.  He mostly has a few questions that act as prompts and lets the guest yammer away.

    This allows me to determine if the guest if full of shit in a reasonable amount of time.  For example, prior to the multiple episodes where he interviewed Jordan Peterson, I thought Peterson was just a guy writing self help books and wasn’t particularly interesting.  Boy was I wrong.  Another example is Peter Schiff, where my only exposure was a brief video from TOS where he yells at Occupy Wall Street.  Its cool he did that, but who didn’t want to yell at those idiots?

    Ban me from twatting…. I’m starting my own twatter! With gay frogs! Blackjack, and Green Hookers! AH! The hell with it!

    Back to Dorsey.  Where I want to focus is around the 48 minute mark where Joe asks him about why Alex Jones was banned…if you don’t know what he said by now I’ll let you hit the link here, where his explanation begins.  I’ll wait.

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    My ass he doesn’t know!  “It’s just my platform, I don’t always know what goes on in the day to day…..”  whatever Jack.  “Oh, he didn’t violate the terms of service, there was a succession [incoherent mumbling] [more mumbling]…”  Okay, that makes a lot of sense, Alex does have a history of getting in people’s faces, and saying stupid things.  A history that predates Twitter….  No matter what you think of Jones he has the right to say stupid things, excommunicating only feeds the perception social media companies are silencing dissenting voices.  It certainly doesn’t help they enforce their code of conduct subjectively and only seem to drop the hammer on conservatives.  Keep on bullshitting Jack, we get it.

    The problem people have with Joe here is he didn’t challenge Dorsey at all.  He has acknowledged Twitter’s subjectivity in enforcing its rules in the past and that social media is overwhelmingly left wing.  He is even perfectly capable of challenging his guests when he wants to, such as arguing with Dave Rubin over enforcement of building codes, Steven Crowder over his ambivalence with marijuana use, Candace Owens over her “wrong” opinion on Climate Change, or Gavin McInnes for of all things—being Catholic.  Okay, Gavin was either intentionally being an idiot or a troll.

    Jack is full of shit.  Even if one of Dorsey’s companies sponsors Joe’s show (Cash App), Joe could’ve at least pointed out the inconsistencies.  He even apologized for it earlier this week…sort of.

    For a guy that constantly tells people not to be a bitch, Rogan sure bitched out. As of this writing, the ratio is ?11k to ?73k.

    This beer is rather expensive but at least you get six full pint cans.  It is really heavy on the coffee, which means its probably a good choice for day drinking.  Your wife, boss, and mother-in-law will never know the difference.  Pizza Port Brewery Bacon and Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter: 3.5/5.