Today I present three delicious alcohol-laced desserts. An easy one for bakers, an impressively showy one for stove-top cooks who love heat, and one that requires no talent or ability whatsoever!
Torta al Vino
This recipe is by famed Italian chef Lidia Bastianich (although I’ve changed the narrative). Don’t be fooled by the ease and simplicity of this cake. The final result is unexpectedly delicious. It’s also perfect for anyone afraid of decorating a cake, as it finishes to a beautiful golden brown that needs no ornamentation.
Have all your ingredients at room temperature before starting (unless your a/c is broken and you live someplace like Phoenix!), as it will make it come together much more easily. And don’t skimp on the citrus zest. It really makes a huge difference.
Either seedless grapes or blueberries or raspberries can be used as the fruit. I used blueberries since they are in season here now and very inexpensive.
I use a 9-inch springform pan. Springform pans are available pretty much everywhere now, very inexpensively, even at Walmart and equivalent. It will make the final presentation much easier, and this cake does rise in the oven more than a standard 9-inch cake pan can happily accommodate. Splurge on the springform pan. You might even decide to start baking cheesecakes.
As is the case with many things, this is even more delicious the next day. You’re a grown-up; yes, you can eat cake for breakfast!
Serves 8-12
For the pan:
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
For the cake:
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus 1 tsp for fruit
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
6 tbsp unsalted butter
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp orange or lemon zest (I use lemon if using grapes, orange if blueberries are the fruit)
3/4 cup dry white wine (nearly any kind will work)
2 cups seedless grapes, stemmed, rinsed and patted dry OR 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries or raspberries
For the topping:
2 tbsp butter, diced
1 tbsp white sugar
1. Preheat oven to 375F.
2. Rub the entire inside of the cake pan with butter. Sprinkle with flour and shake to coat the entire surface. Dump out any extra flour.
3. In a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
4. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. When blended together, beat at high speed to smooth and lighten. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, and – one at a time – add eggs, beating after each one until fully incorporated. Add olive oil, vanilla extract, and citrus zest. Beat on high for a couple minutes until very smooth.
5. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture, then 1/3 of the wine, beating as thoroughly as you would your “orphan.” Continue alternating the flour mixture with wine, beating completely until all dry ingredients and wine are fully incorporated. Scrape bottom and sides of bowl and beat on high to finish smoothing the batter.
6. Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan, spreading it evenly. Sprinkle 1 tsp flour on the fruit and shake to coat evenly. Sprinkle the fruit over the cake batter, then lightly swirl the fruit into the batter. It doesn’t need to be fully submerged.
7. Pour yourself a glass of white wine. Bake cake on the middle rack of the oven for 25 minutes, drinking wine while you clean up the kitchen. After 25 minutes, the top of the cake will be set and starting to brown, but the inside of the cake will still shake. Carefully pull the rack out until you can reach the cake. Sprinkle the surface of the cake with the diced butter, then sprinkle the sugar on top. Don’t burn yourself – you’ve been drinking, after all!
8. Return cake to oven and bake until the cake is set and the top is golden brown, about 15 more wine-drinking minutes. Test with a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake. It should be clean with no cake clinging to the toothpick when done.
9. Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Release the springform side and remove. Allow the cake to completely cool before serving. Continue drinking wine while you wait.
10. Slice into wedges and serve as is or add a little whipped cream (try whipping with some orange liqueur for a nice touch).
Spicy Rum Pineapple
I must emphasize that this dish can be made as spicy or as mild as your taste dictates. Make sure you use a smoked pepper powder, or add some smoked paprika to the mix. We like it so spicy (mmmmm habaneros!) that most of our guests don’t even dare try it. Those who do, generally curse us while performing their morning rituals the next day.
Fresh pineapple is a must here, but you can save yourself some work by purchasing it already cored, sliced and cut into chunks. We serve this with homemade vanilla bean ice cream. (You are definitely going to want that ice cream if you make this right.)
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THIS BE ANYWHERE NEAR A PIZZA. (I’m looking at you, Doom!)
Serves 4-6
1 pineapple, peeled, cored, sliced, and chunked (chunks should be about 1/2-3/4 inch thick)
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp white sugar
1/3 – 1/2 cup dark rum
Smoked, fruity hot pepper powder (to taste)
1. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add pineapple and saute until caramelized, making sure to turn the pineapple so both sides are caramelized.
2. Add sugar and cook until the sugar melts.
3. While keeping your face and all small children back from the pan, pour in the rum all at once.
4. After the flames have died down, cook until the liquid has cooked down into a thick syrup. Remove from heat and sprinkle with smoked hot pepper powder.
5. Divide onto dessert plates and serve a scoop of good vanilla ice cream right alongside.
Spiked Melon
Fruit, sugar, sparkling wine, fresh herbs. Can it get any easier? No, it can’t. Don’t bring a boring, uninspired carton of Ben & Jerry’s next time you’re asked to contribute a summer dessert to a dinner party. Really, don’t be that guy.
A couple great combinations to try: cantaloupe and mint; honeydew and basil.
Serves 4
1 cup Prosecco or Cava
1/8-1/4 cup superfine sugar (adjust for taste and/or how sweet the melon is)
4 cups melon balls (oh, grow up!)
1/4 cup packed fresh herb leaves
1. Pour the sparkling wine into a large bowl. Add the superfine sugar and stir until dissolved.
2. Add the melon and stir to coat completely. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours. (I like to prepare this first thing in the morning for an evening event.)
3. Right before you serve, roll up the herb leaves and chiffonade (slice into thin ribbons).
4. Divide melon and liquid evenly into 4 pretty dessert glasses, garnishing each with 1 tbsp of herb ribbons.
Meh. I just spike egg nog.
Y’all forgot traditional Sherry Trifle. (In this case, tailored to American palates)
So many desserts, so little time! I love trifle.
Guys, this cake is seriously excellent. Perfect Italian simplicity.
Of course, has to gush over a post by his wife.
If he ever wants the “cake” again…
It’s not subtle.
Italians are “simple” to you, huh?
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THIS BE ANYWHERE NEAR A PIZZA. (I’m looking at you, Doom!)
This discrimination against Canadian cultural cuisine will not stand!
“We invented the donair and poutine!”
I don’t like pineapple but that spicy rum pineapple looks good.
I made two dessert recipes from Beeradvocate magazine: Irish car bomb pie and bourbon barrel aged beer pecan pie. Both were excellent.
“I dont like pineapple”
Does not compute.
Pineapple, like many tropical fruits, has an odd taste that I do not like.
I think anyone who doesn’t like pineapple should lose posting privileges here.
No, it’s perfectly acceptable to not like pineapple because that means it isn’t being put on pizza either.
Priorities, right?
Can you grow them in TX (I imagine you can in E Texas)? A friend of mine has one in his front yard here in FL.
thirded
just thinking about it makes me salivate
i im gonna go the opposite way: 3 things i love made worse by combining.
on the other hand, iy could be awesome.
I’ve had pineapple in spicy (thai? or chinese? can’t remember) asian food before, so i know for a fact that the sweet+watery mixes well with the super spicy
I also know that it works with rum. Its not a stretch to add the two and assume Rum+Pineapple+Spice = fun
I will be trying that spicy rum pineapple tomorrow. Yum
Stop wasting alcohol, just drink it.
My whole family done give up on me
And it makes me feel oh, so bad
The only on who will hang out with me
Is my dear old Granddad
Every morning, just before breakfast
I don’t want no coffee or tea
Just me and my good buddy Weiser
That’s all I ever need
We do that, too.
love you too.
It does look very good. I’ll be making that this weekend I think!
So I have a bunch of kahlua.
what do?
Add it to coffee along with some Bailey’s.
If you want something really easy, just add some ice and cut it with a little milk. That what I did last time I found myself with a bottle. Tasted like a spiked ice coffee
Since I am out of coffee, this might be what happens.
Black Russians. Mmmm.
(It also is really good added to chocolate desserts.)
mmm these look delish!
When we have the Glib brunch at my place, who’s bringing that cake??
I hear someone left it out in the rain.
Sad.
I will be giving it a try next week for sure. It looks good. I am sitting on leftover bourbon peach cobbler at the moment. I spent the morning wrastling with the front end of the Explorer. It is the ball joints and wheel bearings that are hosed. The bearings are in an enclosed hub, so not a big deal to change out, just kind of spendy. The ball joints on the other hand, fuck me. It took me 30 mins of banging and prying to get the yoke(?) to drop once the nuts where removed. Two trips to the hardware store. One to replace the snap ring pliers I broke, and one to get a socket. My set went from 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 and I needed 1 5/16. Pissed me off. and then, the ball joint press kit I purchased does not have the reach or attachments for these ball joints. They are massive. I will rent a kit tomorrow from the parts store.
Nevermind the repairs. More about that bourbon peach cobbler, please. (Isn’t it messy when you sit on it?)
The cobbler is super simple. I make small cobblers, so I cut up about 4 peaches and soak them in 1/4 C bourbon, (I am using rye at the moment because that is what I have), 1/4C sugar and 2Tcorn starch. For the cobblage, about 3/4 C flour, 1/4 C brown sug, 1t Baking Powd, 1/4t salt, 1/2 a stick of unsalted butter and 3/8 or so C buttermilk. I spread a thin layer of cobblage on the bottom of a small baking dish, pour in the peaches, and then dab the rest of the cobblage in a spotty fashion for semi equal coverage. Bake at whatever temp my toaster oven does until it is done.
I will definitely be trying your recipes here. Looks good. Thanks.
I could eat that! And will, as soon as good peaches appear here.
Another one saved. Winning.
I’m confused, I thought a cobbler is someone who repairs shoes… Hey, you can’t just go around baking people who fix shoes into pies, you brutals!
ball joints suck.
Eat that cobbler!
OMWC and I are going to be in Boulder toward the end of August. Just sayin’. 😉
Well let me know, you’re more than welcome.
The internet’s best-known young black libertarian talks about how SJW’s are mostly just a useless distraction.
he seems to be saying that he thinks the “moderate left” is probably a bigger problem because they are made to seem more appealing by simply “not being retards” – but that they basically have the same agenda, they just are less shrill about it.
“I’m sorry about Officer Mutt, he gets a bit hotheaded sometimes. I’m officer Jeff, why don’t you talk to me instead?”
“Look, I’m sure you’re not *really* a racist, and I’ll try to explain that to the others, but what would really help me is if you sign this confession of white privilege. You won’t have to say you’re consciously racist, you know, just that there’s a white power structure which does bad things. You’re against bad things, aren’t you?”
“And you can help us out by denouncing the *real* racists, you know, the people who aren’t as enlightened as you are about their white privilege.”
“So…shall I put you down for a $5,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee?”
As shown in the comments of that video, I’m now usually way more tired of these idiots on the internet whining about ‘DA JOOOOOOOOS’ and thinking its some profound, edgy thing than I am social justice warriors. Fortunately they fill the same category That Guy T gives the SJWs on their side of the spectrum as well.
i’m still undecided on how much of that sort of thing is just “meme-signaling”, and how much of it is actually quasi-sincere, or just posing by basement-dwelling morons who’d never dare admit these views in public.
that said…. having glanced at the comments, i see only 1 out of the first 100 or so, so not sure how you got triggered on that point.
I should have added…. “or all three”
Meh, it was more the “+56 likes” (probably not all sincere) than anything else, and some other smug bastard below pulling the standard idiotic “see, you can’t criticize DA JOOOOOOS so therefore I’m right’ argument. But it’s more the fatigue of constantly seeing this crap crop up on any slightly to the right youtube channel or elsewhere. Breitbart’s the only real ‘mainstream’ publication that is a wretched hive of scum and villainy for them.
As Popehat puts it: It’s the Rule of Goats. If you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still a goatfucker.
I don’t think Ken White is quite the authority he used to be.
And i don’t think the prevalence of anti-semetic memes on the intertubes is actually indicative of any genuine growth in racism. Maybe there’s some, but – as per my above uncertainty – how much is up for grabs.
I side with Scott Alexander – everyone crying wolf about ‘racism’ is mostly doing so because its in their interest to do so, not because racism is a real, growing force of any significance. People pearl-clutch over “harassing memes” and “internet nazis” because it allows them to seize a contrived-moral-high-ground
to wit =
ken’s Zeno-esque hair splitting re the CNN ‘doxxing’ thing
https://www.popehat.com/2017/07/05/cnn-doxing-and-a-few-ways-in-which-we-are-full-of-shit-as-a-political-culture/
its not that fucking complicated ken.
Those comments…hoo boy:
I’ve seen it all my goddamn life. It’s not being used ironically. There are a lot of things we overthink and say “RACIST!”. But when people say overtly racist things, call a spade a spade (see what I did there?). Don’t excuse it as some meme bullshit.
You can join the chorus of self-appointed experts
He’s not entirely wrong about it as a ‘meme’ however. On the That Guy T video there’s a comment by E;R, and I’ve watched his Star Wars reviews. His comment there doesn’t mention anything about Jews, but he’s got some very dark gallows and anti-Semitic humour in his reviews. But that’s a case where the comedy is pretty obvious, he’s clearly a product of the more cynical side of /pol/. I don’t think it’s easy to just handwave it all off as ‘memeing’ but there’s definitely a trolling aspect to some of it.
I think its more that the internet (and the current political) has allowed people like that to not just gather together, but also find ways of presenting and spreading their values in ways they couldn’t used to. Libertarianism has certainly benefited from it, but there’s also a subset of the ‘alt-right’ selling the idea that the Jews are destroying white culture with multiculturalism by screaming “look at how many SJWs are Jews” and plenty of idiot teenagers and twentysomethings despite for answers are buying it.
What’s you opinion on this, JB?
And its incumbent upon the pearl-clutchers to demonstrate that this “subset” actually reflects anything other than the gabbing of a teeny tiny minority of inconsequentials on the internet.
instead, they use the existence of these basement dwellers to insist (as JB does) that all of it is 100% sincere and its all indicative of genuine racism and this is why we need to listen to [Insert Guardian journalist/Clinton Campaign/WSJ/Amanda Marcotte etc]
When someone with authority and credibility gets on a stage in front of an audience and says something anti-semetic, i will take it very very seriously.
when people in the press declare @()#*@() Pewdiepie a Nazi, or declare that frogs + OK-signs are white power symbols…. or that “14 words” was a secret message for legions of racist Trump supporters…..
i do not. and i see it as what it is = people inventing dragons out of thin air in order to pretend that they are dragon-slayers.
I think we’re talking past each other on this Gilmore. I don’t treat the “secret 14 words/Ok symbol” stuff anymore seriously then you do, I’m more focused on the rhetoric cropping up like “WHY COME WE CAN’T CRITICIZE JEWS/JEWS GET THEIR ETHNOSTATE/NETANYAHU GET STANDING OVATION AT CONGRESS” that actually comes off as legitimate anti-Semitic political argumentation.
When, say, a youtube commentator makes some comment blaming the Jews, and someone just asks them what they’ve got to support it, and they just spew out a bunch of randomly collected facts and/or myths that they see a ‘pattern’ to, that is less trolling and more conspiracy theory. It is fair to say that has, overall, increased to some extent recently on more ‘mainstream’ platforms, if only due to the idiots that already believed that getting more vocal. I mean, there usually was a degree of it on /pol/ before now, but it wasn’t being as aggressively pushed elsewhere.
We’re not talking about the dubious association of Pepe, ‘Kek,’ Trump, etc. with white-supremacy and anti-semitism. That’s obviously just memeing and trolling. It’s the people who will get into spiels about the Jewish conspiracy, about Israel, people who have seen and fully believe “The Greatest Story Never Told.” There are many. They’re all over /pol/, they post on every ‘alt-right’ YT video. If people are just slinging memes and being facetious when explicitly talking about Jewish globalist conspiracies, they’ve started to blur with the legit neo-Nazis. Pepe et al. is clearly distinct and a guilt by association thing.
I’m with JT and JB. I’ve seen far too many verbose, inflamed anti-semitic posts on right-wing channels. It’s kept me centered, at least.
It used to be that some on the left were so fed up with “McCarthyism” that they just assumed “communist” was a meaningless slur and there were no actual communists doing anything really important.
And my point is more that it shouldn’t be treating this as ‘dragons’, instead it should actually be addressed in a rational manner. The people going after PewDiePie are just screaming anti-Semite and generating a Two Minutes of Hate, they’re not actually addressing the nature of their arguments (because they obviously don’t want to). Actually arguing “no, your delusions of a Jewish cabal trying to destroy ‘white culture’ are stupid, and here’s why” is a hell of a lot better than that, because these morons always fall back on their shitty little trained axioms like ‘To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.’
I think you need to go back to square 1 where i pointed out that “shit people say in youtube comments” is effectively meaningless, disposable, inconsequential, etc.
or as i said later – when people start making these arguments in ‘real life’, call me back.
More significant than the Nazi memes and comment blather are the real-world “outrage-mongers” (a la the Pewdiepie pearl clutching) who actually use this to their own advantage, and are far more dangerous.
You say “Obviously”, but then the Wall St Journal declares that a swedish video game Let’s-play dude is a Neonazi
not so obvious
You say “Obviously”, but then the Wall St Journal declares that a swedish video game Let’s-play dude is a Neonazi
And the end result of that was him losing a few business deals with major corporations (which sucks) but he experienced a massive increase in subscribers and pretty much everyone within his ‘industry’ threw their support behind him, despite the fact that his content is largely hated because he’s one of those loud-mouthed screaming aspy youtubers. I think you’re overestimating the power of the ‘outrage mongers’ as well. PewDiePie is doing completely fine, he’s not ruined, and the majority of the people who knew anything about the story didn’t buy it. The layman is not conforming to the WaPo hit piece.
I mean to the (mythological) average impartial observer, perhaps. There’s a stark difference between puerile jokes about Nazis and the Holocaust and arguments invoking revisionist source material and “white genocide” “Jewish puppetmaster” rhetoric. Particularly because of the sources themselves. Pewdiepie is a goofball comedian. He’s not giving a dissertation on a certain gnostic-type worldview.
But yeah, maybe I’m overestimating how ‘stark’ it really might seem to other people. Maybe I’m just not in the know about certain types of humor.
OK touché. I think I’VE spent too much time on the internet, and it’s warping my perspective.
For the record, JT is saying what I’m thinking but far better than I can.
i don’t think its too controversial a claim to suggest that the mass-media are more powerful than random internet commenters.
and that the mass media can create fictitious problems (online racism) which often then leads to politicians leaping forward to offer legislative solutions.
I don’t get my panties in a wad about internet nazis. I worry more about the people claiming that they’re a ‘real problem’ when (as per my very early cite of Scott Alexander) they’re not.
People mean different things by racism.
Some people adhere to the old, restrictive definition of hating or persecuting or discriminating against people based on their race.
Others use “racism” to mean “something I don’t like.”
The latter group is so annoying as to provide the temptation to say that “racism” has become meaningless.
But some old-definition racists still are around. Not nearly as numerous or powerful as they used to be, of course. If they’re bitching on the Internet, that’s not exactly a sign that they have vast powers.
Not to mention that some forms of racism has more approval than others.
Wait… there’s no black libertarians… ok, there’s one half black libertarian. Next you’re going to tell us it’s a black female, hahaha.
Is Kmele half-black? Unless you mean HM, but he’s a quadroon. [These things matter!]
#BlackFractionsMatter
I did forget about Kmele. So there’s one black libertarian and one ‘quadroon’. I guess the science is settled now.
I thought Ed Wuncler was black?
I think you’re right. So now we’re up to 2 and a half black libertarians. Hey, that would be a good name for a sitcom.
Because Ed is 125% black
Why not a remake of Herman’s Head where the various racial/ethnic groups in the main character’s ancestry argue with each other.
It goes without saying that it would have to be done tastefully.
So the main character is arguing with his neighbor, and we see inside the main character’s head.
His Irish ancestry says “kick his ass!”
His Italian ancestry says “sleep with his wife!”
And his black…
Hey, wait, I’m not finished!
Wow, that’s the first time someone pushed the “emergency stop” button on the elevator in the middle of my elevator pitch and then climbed out the roof!
Can’t watch right now, but I think there’s some truth to that. The SJW’s pull them all, and it’s a bit too easy for the not shrieking ones to retreat to the motte. It’s true in feminism all the time: “we’re not those crazy misandrists, but who’s against equality?” So you get Dem Senators defending Title IX overreach, because “how can you be against these poor rape victims?”
Feelz over realz is very tempting and hard to defeat, I think.
I think there’s a difference to be drawn between left-ish pols who use identity politics, and those who don’t. If they don’t, you can have a real discussion with them. If they do, there’s no point.
I kind of thought the exact opposite. A lot – if not most – of the anti-SJW crowd ‘identify’ as left of center economically, and while they believe in a free market (as opposed to state control – they want far more regs than we would), they are also often in favor of a lot of welfare state programs we’d love to see die.
Oops. “…and they are also often in favor of a lot of welfare state programs we’d love to see die, their rejection of identity politics means a discussion is possible.
Yeah, sure. I’m not sure i agree with whatever T is saying, but i think he’s actually an interesting guy, and he’s – forgive me for saying it – a far better promoter and defender of libertarian ideas than, say, Reason has been in the last few years.
I think what his point was (i admit i’ve sort of forgotten what with the sidebar about Nazis in the comment section) was that young people in his milieu are far more obsessed with being “Anti-SJW”.
But they tend to ignore the non-SJW left who *actually implement terrible policies*. and that from the POV of liberty minded people, its actually more important to be opposed to leftist policies than it is merely hem and haw about purple haired trans-activists on the internet.
Like I said, Mutt and Jeff.
A prog can put on a suit and tie, avoid screaming at people, utter a few pieties about bringing everyone together, and presto! – naive people will take him for a moderate.
Wow, that sounds familiar.
“I oppose SJWs for the same reason I oppose … the newly-resurrected ‘classical liberals.'”
“…I don’t fetishize free speech to the extent of most anti-SJWs.”
This is confusing to me, having never listened to him before. I get opposing people who are philosophically opposed, even if they abhor the tactics of some other factions of the left (hello, Robby Soave), but I don’t think he’s doing arguing that terribly well by painting all ‘leftists’ (or ‘classical liberals’ as ‘of the left’) as comparably/equally-philosophically-opposed. Certainly there are degrees of difference.
And dismissing all strategic collaborations will leave libertarians exactly where they are. The reasons for the collaborations matter—don’t give up your principles for the sake of a temporary result—but the collabs can still have value. We can remain principled and still collaborate pragmatically with people with whom we don’t share those principles—as long as they aren’t driving the narrative.
that line threw me as well, but i think he’s actually referencing some argument he made in a previous video which we don’t have transparency on
i will guess – without really knowing – that he’s suggesting there’s a fad among squishy leftists of calling themselves ‘classical liberals’ …
….by which they really mean, “Not as lefty as the SJWs, a mild civil libertarian, but still perfectly cool with govt intervention in economies”
iow, “regular old mainstream left”. Its just a more-fashionable label to avoid identifying with the purple-haired jezebel crowd, yet keep your Big Govt.
Dave Rubin + Sargon are 2 that call themselves ‘classical liberal’ at times… but the reality is that Sargon is closer to a UK Laborite, and isn’t at all a free-marketer, and Rubin, while a nice guy, isn’t really philosophically anything, as far as i can tell, he’s just “Fuck TYT”. Which i think is at least progress, but let’s not go pretending that Classical Liberalism is just watered down “Batshit Lefty”.
Of course i could be wrong about what he meant, but that was my charitable read.
Rubin, while a nice guy, isn’t really philosophically anything, as far as i can tell, he’s just “Fuck TYT”.
Rubin is, however, vocally in favour of a public healthcare system when you ask him about it, and Sargon is by no means a NHS critic, which is probably some of the stuff That Guy T is talking about.
“he newly-resurrected ‘classical liberals”
I’m not sure how that makes any sense whatsoever unless it’s referring to libertarians.
no. I think he means lefties dressing themselves up as some fake “moderates” by adopting that label.
I know people who claim they are classical liberals and have always been. But they also advocate for single payer health care as a right, limits on free speech, “common sense gun control” (as in no one should own guns except the government), and any number of positions that kill individual liberty, full on government intervention in the economy with a living wage…..etc. They forgot what classical liberal meant as they put years under their belts. Or, I might not really understand what a “classical liberal” is. Because the people I know are nothing but rabid progressives.
Basically that’s what i was saying. I’d probably describe myself as “classical liberal”, but the difference is that i *mean it*.
Other people, its something different – its more like,
“Well i believe in civil liberties and free markets BUT…._[insert a billion examples of why they don’t really]”
its basically a cop out which dresses up big govt liberalism in better rhetoric
Yup. Nobody believes in free markets anymore. Not even “professional” libertarians. And civil liberties apply to everybody unless you find them icky or offensive.
Iowahawk said something about this.
iow, “regular old mainstream left”. Its just a more-fashionable label to avoid identifying with the purple-haired jezebel crowd, yet keep your Big Govt.
Which is their fundamental weakness (and that of guys like Robby). The purple-haired jezebel crowd is really just taking what those nice regular old mainstream left people said to its logical conclusion. It’s all well and good to get upset by the cadres’ tactics. But, who told them that anyone opposed to progressivism was essentially a fascist? Who told them collectivism was a legitimate basis for public discussion? Who told them that inequality was the one vital issue of our day?
These are all platitudes the regular old mainstream left people have been mouthing for decades. Now, they’re surprised when these kids are coming to cash in that check?
All the lurking. All the weak posts I’ve made. All I’ve done on this site has finally paid off.
I am off to seize an appropriate pineapple PRESENTLY.
15 men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and we’re already halfway to having a pineapple and rum
“…. and shortly thereafter, the phenomenon of “Pineapplecholism” began to emerge among libertarians….. and scenes of debauchery began to become commonplace in supermarket produce aisles”
Children hardest hit.
Florida man wearing nothing but a top hat arrested after beating customers over disputes about pineapples.
Supermarket debauchery was just the camel’s nose under the tent though.
Rock bottom was hit when teen aged libertarians began butt-chugging alcoholic pineapples.
I’m out of beer and was going to go to the drive thru, but now I guess I’ll have to put on some pants and go to the grocers for a pineapple.
“…. and shortly thereafter, he stopped caring about this part….”
What the hell sort of Glibertarian puts on pants to go get beer?
It’s the pineapple part that requires pants, as they don’t sell them at the drive thru.
yet
Can’t you just sit under a pineapple tree on your tropical island lair and wait for a pineapple to drop on you?
Nonsense, you order those orphans to skin right up that grapefruit tree and pick those grapefruit for you! I mean pineapple. Pineapple tree it is.
Colorado?
Ohio. I always forget there are places that don’t have drive-thru beer docks, and people think of a fast food drive-up window when they hear ‘drive-thru’.
I remember 30 years ago when they had pole barn drive-thrus in Ohio.
I remember 30 minutes ago* when I drove thru one.
*slight exaggeration it was three hours ago, this particular one is standard stick framed construction, but I could get to a pole barn one in about 15 minutes if I wanted to.
At WaPo, it’s all TDS, all the time.
They never once spoke President Trump’s name. But as former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush discussed the highs and lows of the nation’s highest office during a joint appearance in Dallas, there were a few comments that certainly appeared to be thinly-veiled references to the current commander in chief.
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Both men emphasized the importance of humility in the presidential role — a quality that the current president, who often publicly boasts of his triumphs and belittles his opponents, isn’t exactly known for. “I think the most important thing is to be humble, to listen, to realize everybody’s got a story,” Clinton said.
Believe it or not, when I saw a different story about this, I immediately thought it was a thinly veiled admonition to the last guy to STFU.
But what do I know?
Bill “humility” Clinton.
I think listening, to Bill, means nodding occasionally, saying “mmm-hmmm,” and waiting for a chance to put his hand up your skirt.
(That’s why he’s not popular in Scotland)
Come on, I kilt it with that pun.
But if we laugh, it will only encourage you.
It Was funny
This is why I support Trump symbolically. Fuck the mystification of the presidency, of the office. Fuck the willful abetted hypocrisy.
And of course the politicians and journalists who talk about humility are talking about it in terms of somebody *else* needing to be more humble.
Unless they’re humbly admitting that they themselves are the humblest people you ever met, and why can’t everyone else be like them?
So brave. So heroic.
The headquarters of the police and fire departments in Sunnyvale was evacuated Saturday afternoon after somebody brought hand grenades and ammunition into the lobby for disposal.
A bomb squad unit was called to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, at 700 All America Way in Sunnyvale, shortly after 12:30 pm.
The city’s 911 services were being temporarily moved to the Santa Clara County Communications facility.
“Our headquarters has been evacuated and will be closed indefinitely,” the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said via Twitter at 12:35 pm. “Please stay away from the area.”
Some guy apparently found the stuff while cleaning his garage. Wild guess- Granddad’s memorabilia from the Great War.
Good thing he didn’t walk in there with a pop tart he had chewed into the shape of a gun.
Pop-tarts may be deadly in the long term, if you eat too many, but in the short term, old grenades you found in the garage are potentially more lethal.
Plus the lawsuits if they *didn’t* evacuate and some of those grenades went off.
When I said ‘good thing’, I meant for the guy, that he didn’t get shot.
Oh, right, your point sailed over my head, sorry.
That’s what granades do?!
So, I’m home after a long day of professional art world obligations at a museum. What to drink, what to drink….
well, don’t leave us hanging!
I made that black russian.
Darn it. Out of Kahlua.
I’ll have to settle for the Basil Hayden bourbon that SugarFree brought to FounderFest. Although I was sorely tempted by both the Rowan’s Creek and the Willett. (I’m so spoiled.)
Come on, SP, don’t try to convince us that you guys were not sitting around sipping cocktails with little umbrellas and discussing whether the yokels are going to be generous enough to fund the upcoming cruise.
I detest the very idea of a cruise. Now, a vacation in northern Italy….
I’ve never actually been on a cruise. But wife and I are thinking about Baltimore to Bermuda, and also one that goes from Santiago, Chili around Cape Horn and up to Buenos Aires.
Bermuda is nice. Expensive, but nice.
So I’ve heard. And it’s not too far from here.
I’ve been twice. Once was about ten years ago, the second time about three years ago. If you want pointers, let me know.
Thanks, DEG, I probably will.
Perugia and Florence, imo, are 2 of the best towns in Italy to visit.
Admittedly – Florence is less of a party-town, and more of an “oooh, ahhh” stuff to look at and a pleasant place to stroll/bike around. But Perugia is the bomb. They have the Umbria jazz festival there still i think, and its home to the Perugina chocolate factory so the whole city smells like candy, and the place is full of hot young women because it has an international school there, and everyone parties all night long and sleeps most of the day.
Rome imo was ‘too much’ (*i was 18 and once i’d seen a few monuments and ruins i was like ‘everything is too expensive and all the nightlife is for older people); Milan was too industrial. smaller cities/towns in italy were far more fun and were cheaper and less crowded.
Thanks Gilmore! I had my Italian geography mixed up and thought Florence was farther north than it is. I didn’t know about Perugia. I will have to look into it.
highly highly recommended. its the sort of place if you bring your wife/gf she’ll remember it forever.
there are a dozen of these small/medium sized cities in umbria that are all built on a hill where the top is the “old city” with the Duomo and the piazza, and the rest of the city spills down the hill. they all have good cheap food, very friendly locals, and far more comfortable atmosphere than the big italian cities which (imo) were loud, full of assholes, and overpriced. and that’s coming from a person who has spent most of his life in a loud, overpriced city full of assholes.
My first hangover was on an overnight boat trip.
Well, at least the fishes don’t mind when you barf on them.
Northern Italy is on my list of places to visit.
Almost everywhere in Italy is on my list.
I’m not that interested in the middle of Italy. Northern Italy, Sicily, and in between not so much. I should swing by Rome at some point, but I have a feeling Rome will turn out to be overrated.
whoops – meant reply above for here.
I’m drinking this beer. It’s good.
I’ll have to finish the lawn tomorrow. Out of gas.
Just drink 10 of those. Then you won’t feel like mowing the yard tomorrow. Then you won’t have to worry about buying gas. WIN/WIN.
While I was working, OMWC was home mowing the entire estate with a push mower. He’s a keeper!
Depending on how big the estate is. If it’s a few acres or more, then yeah, well that’s crazy. I used to mow about 1/2 acre with a push mower. But as soon as I owned a bunch of acreage, I bought a tractor and still spent most of a weekend day mowing the 10 acres I kept mowed.
I have about 3/4 acre of cleared land, the rest is woods. I mow it with a push mower. It can get to be a drag.
My parents had an acre, all cleared. I remember when the mowers were broken, I tried cutting the grass with an old reel mower. Bad idea.
Hmm…. I wonder what you are really trying to do here….
I’m past the half-way point for the only bottle I have. It’s going down good.
Interesting. I really like The Poet Oatmeal Stout a lot. I’ll have to try that one.
This one?
I like New Holland. I can’t remember if their beer is now available in New England or if I have to wait until I visit family in Pennsylvania to get it.
Bell’s is now available in limited quantities in Massachusetts, so that makes getting Bell’s a bit easier.
Yeah, that’s the one. You seem to have the same taste in beers as I do so I think you would like it
You spent a day putting handlebar mustaches on all the Mona Lisa knock-offs?
I’m so honored that you watched my Periscope broadcast!
Spawn #2 is here. A girl! Maybe we’ll get our first female libertarian?
Congrats! Girls are easier to raise IMO
What planet do you live on? Surely you are not talking about human females?
Glad you said it so I didn’t have to!
You haven’t met my Son
Your son seems fine to me, good military career, scored a MILF, almost became a dictator.
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing the happy news!
Congratulations. If you work hard enough, she might be a libertarian a couple of times a day, before she changes her mind again.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Oh, I think this means you have to buy the house a round. And none of that well drink stuff, either!
Congrats to you and the mother. Nine minutes of passion for you; nine months of work for her.
Nine minutes of passion for you
You misspelled “seconds.”
Congratulations!
(That’s all, no snark, sorry)
Congrats!
Congrats. Best wishes to you in your effort to raise the slime covered little cone head to be a libertarian.
Mazeltov!
New Belgium Citradelic, Lime Ale, actually quite refreshing, and quite departure from my usual Torpedoes
So I finally got to shoot my shockwave today, in 115 degree heat. Prior to this point I had decided that my gun needed some customization so I spent about $100 and two hours adding shit to it. After shooting it today I realize that all that extra shit was either a waste of money or had some other negative effect that offset the positive effect it gave me, so when I got home I spent 2 hours putting the gun back to stock. I really should be old enough to know not to do this to guns.
Did you like the gun other than that?
The gun is awesome and it really has potential as a serious home defense gun. The one thing this gun really needs is a vertical grip on the forend. I had purchased a railed forend off of ebay but it was very heavy and it didn’t fit well so when I fired it the moment from the recoil against the vertical grip actually pulled the forend partially off the gun. Pumping the action pushed the forend back into place but I feel its only a matter of time before it breaks clean off after a shot. I also bought a laser that I could use for point shooting from the hip but it was a cheap chinese piece of shit off of amazon and it broke almost instantly. The third thing I added was a side saddle, which would still be on the gun except for the fact that I am left handed coupled with the lack of a stock on this gun meant that every time I fired the gun the side saddle slammed into the side of my trigger finger on recoil. I now have a nice little blood blister on the second knuckle of my trigger finger. I still want to find a way to carry more ammo on this gun but I am not really seeing a solution at the moment. So the first job is to figure out how to get a rail onto the stock forend.
Can you put a fore grip on that? Buddy of mine bought a keltech a couple weeks ago and the dealer told him he couldn’t put a fore grip on that even though the barrel is legal and it’s a bullpup.
Whoever told your friend he couldn’t put a foregrip on his ksg is a moron. The only guns you are not allowed to put foregrip on are handguns. The ksg fits the description of a shotgun so it’s perfectly legal to put a grip on. The shockwave is considered a firearm, so it is also legal to put a foregrip on it.
Can you drill a couple holes and use short bolts and nuts. I’d trust that more than wood screws. I wouldn’t want to take any risk with that short barrel.
I’ve seen it done with short screws. I’m not too worried about it breaking cause I’m mounting it far back on the pump arm. My hand would have to travel about 6 inches to make it in front of the barrel.
Went to see Wonder Woman today. OMG she is sooo hot.
And by hot you mean…setting an empowering image of achievement for women and girls?
Ooh, I just thought of a feminist joke…she made her invisible plane out of glass from the shattered glass ceiling. Ha ha?
Yes, exactly.
Sisterhood is Powerful
Let’s engage in some Wonder Woman role-playing, it’s bound to be fun…and vice versa.
Check it out, here’s a picture of a woman who’s really tied up.
I’d hit that
She’s kind of busy, you’ll have to make sure she can fit you in.
She can keep working just needs to bend over that desk.
Some of us are more subtle with our dirty jokes.
Joke?
Park Lane Tavern in F’burg has some great desserts – strongly recommend the Jameson Irish Whiskey Bread Pudding or the Berries and Custard.
my favorite dessert:
pour bourbon over ice. drink before it gets watery.
With these reusable plastic ice cubes, you’ll never have to worry about watery bourbon again!
Proposed slogan: “If you prefer watery beverages you better duck ’cause these ice cubes are crazy as [bleep].”
There was a rule a few years ago that if your drink was found with the ice melted, you funneled it.
*would not advocate this rule*
Holy crap! Kids these days……..
This is why college kids see the binge drinking PSA’s.