Atlanta tells customers to stay home.
The Atlanta City Council
passed a resolution barring anyone under 21 from businesses that serve alcohol (excepting a few, such as groceries and restaurants). Their logic is, "Since a person under 21 can't drink in a nightclub, they should not be in these establishments." Balderdash.
New York City had a rule (maybe still does) that you had to be 13 to be at the bar (sitting or standing). I know this because I was shooed away from the bar and back to my table a few times when I wasn't yet 13. I wasn't anywhere close to 13, truthfully. Bars serve food and they also show pay-per-view sporting events--that was reason enough for me to be there in grade school.
When I came to college, years before I could drink, I'd still go to bars and clubs with friends. I wasn't drinking but I was still able to have fun. It's a false assumption that the only reason people go to bars or clubs or such is to drink--they go to socialize and drinking is how the businesses are able to pay the bills.
Atlanta is working very hard to make the city unpalatable for anyone under 50. They're turning Buckhead into Disneyland with shopping malls and tourist traps. Midtown has been gutted and little local flavor remains, replaced by condos. An event center I frequent has been in a battle to get licenses for a larger space and is being battled by a group that doesn't want us there (the battle has been pretty harsh, with someone printing fake flyers advertising illegal events at the space).
I started going over to Decatur to drink. I don't have to deal with smokers, they pour later (though I'm rarely out that late anymore), and the city and county seem to WANT my business. Atlanta will quickly learn that the old farts trying to make the city quiet aren't willing to pay the taxes that the businesses provide.
Labels: alcohol, atlanta, decatur, government, politics
QOTD: God hates bloggers and kittens.
"For each “meme” forwarded on the blogosphere, God kills a kitten. And I’d rather do that myself."
-- dr. Dave,
The One-time-only Internet Meme: BooksLabels: god, kittens, meme, qotd
Chain Blog: What's in my liquor cabinet?
I've decided to start a chain blog (it's not a
meme).
What's in my liquor cabinet? Are the bottles not the normal 750ml (fifth)? What's special about each (or my) bottle?
- Bowmore 12 (bought this afternoon because GA won't let me buy liquor tomorrow)
- Macallan Fine Oak 15 (less than half used after quite a while)
- Milagro Silver (enough left for one or two more drinks)
- Bacardi Silver (1.5L)
- Southern Comfort (1.5L, I generally just mix it with lemon-lime soda)
- Dekuyper Melon (this is wonderful when drank straight)
- Dekuyper Blue Curacao (girls will drink anything that's a pretty color)
- Dekuyper Triplesec (1L)
- Jameson Irish Whiskey (1.5L and one of my most frequent purchases)
- Skye Vodka (1.5L)
- Saint Brendan's (1.5L)
- Patron XO (I mix this with the Saint Brendan's and milk for something I call "Coffee and Cream")
- Yellow Tail Merlot 2005 (1.5L)
- Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio 2006
- Clos Du Bois Shiraz 2003 (I bought this and the Pinot Grigio on a whim, then gave them to a friend--so I went back out and bought them again to have at home)
- Rose's Grenadine (12fl oz, because Kristi liked gay drinks)
- Mr & Mrs T's Whiskey Sour Mix (33.8fl oz, for the aforementioned Irish whiskey)
Now I tag people. Wait, that would be juvenile. If someone wants to write the same, they can link back here. The internet is egalitarian that way.
Labels: liquor, scotch, whiskey
Merry Guy Fawkes Day!
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,I know of no reasonWhy Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot.5th November, 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled. Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up Parliament and kill the Protestant government of England in retaliation for religious persecution. One of those executed for his "part" in the plot was a Catholic priest who heard the confession of one of the conspirators.
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson
Labels: catholicism, england, guy fawkes, parliament, politics, thomas jefferson
QOTD: Amulet of Unaccountability
"Thank god Condoleeza Rice was wearing the Bush administration's No-Comment-I-Don't-Recall Amulet of Unaccountability."
--Jon Stewart, 20071030, on her testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Labels: condoleeze rice, daily show, jon stewart, politics, qotd
Musharraf revokes Pakistani democracy...again!
Good to know "President" Musharraf is helping to
spread democracy and fight tyrrany in every country he doesn't control. It's incredible how accepting the government of the U.S.A. is to tyrrants in "friendly" nations.
Labels: democracy, musharraf, pakistan, politics, terrorism
State Department is Drafting Diplomats for Iraq
The Department of State is short 48 volunteers for the 252 diplomatic posts in Iraq. In response, the State Department has
mandated service from its remaining diplomats to fill the gap.
"It's one thing if someone believes in what's going on over there and volunteers. But it's another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment. And I'm sorry, but basically that's a potential death sentence, and you know it."
-- Jack Croddy, U.S.A. Department of State, Foreign Service (36-year veteran)
[Update 20071104: I previously posted "only received 48 volunteers", which was incorrect.]Labels: draft, iraq, politics, state department
