I think that's a variation on "Apples and Oranges", which is apple cider (of any variety, but the friend who introduced it to me used Martinelli's Sparkling*), vodka, and triple sec (or just orange vodka).

*I think it's OK, if a little too cloying for my tastes. I'm out in western MA and I personally prefer Carlson's…

This is a good article covering the subject, but I just have a quibble with this line: "... the obvious sympathy a jury would elicit for a father who just watched his sons die at the hands of a drunk driver,..."

I refer to it as "Magic: the Saddening" sometimes for a) its capacity to frustrate my friends endlessly and b) how attention-consuming and unbelievably dorky it is (try hanging out with people when half or more of them suddenly want to talk about MtG and nothing else for a solid hour).

Yep, they're great. My sole complaint is that I keep finding ways to drop or damage them, despite their reliability and sturdiness. Comically, this means that my $15 NorelCo trimmer has seen a longer lifespan than any of my razors, electric or not.

Yep, they're great. My sole complaint is that I keep finding ways to drop or damage them, despite their reliability…

This is absolutely right. Fast food prices are so ridiculous that lunch (complete with beverage and tip) at one of my hometown's nicest restaurants is the same price as or cheaper than a full meal at Burger King.

Polar Beverages is one of my steadfasts for certain needs, their seltzers included. I for one love to make the occasional Paloma (tequila, lime juice, grapefruit & soda water (seltzer here, I guess) or grapefruit soda) with their Half & Half (lemon and grapefruit) soda. One thing I enjoy is how few of their offerings…

On the one hand, sometimes Chipotle serves an area with a significant drought of burrito-making establishments, in which case it's kind of understandable that it's caught on. It gets grating that people (meaning, the people I know, kind of know, or can't work up the basic initiative to disasociate from on social…

Reminds me of when I saw Watchmen at an IMAX theater.

After I read this article and discovered that Old Crow had the same mash bill & yeast as JB, the primary differences being possible barreling factors and that Jim Beam White Label is aged a year longer, I did a taste test between Old Crow Reserve and Beam, and decided that if it was cheap bourbon I wanted, OCR would…

Seconding this. I live in New Angryland, same as Will Gordon, but I'm closer to New Hampshire, and good liquors that meet my saddening criteria for affordability is a short, short car ride away.

I like the inclusion of Old Fitzgerald — a friend with a taste for Maker's Mark has inspired me to look into wheated whiskeys, and while I'd love to try Wheatfish or Spring Wheat from Montana, there aren't any stores that get shipments around where I live (according to their sites), so I appreciate the recommendation…

I'll have to keep an eye out for that. I spent the extra cash to get a bottle of Rittenhouse, and while it's splendid, I'd definitely be enthused for a cheaper rye — especially to get to know this branch of the whisk(e)y family tree better.

That B:TAS reference is perfect, especially given the show's version of the origin story for Clayface.

Those aren't the worst thing. C'mon. You're essentially getting free cookies with wine. (Or free wine with cookies, if you want to get philosophical/ascribe an overly high value to Chips Ahoy.)

Alec and Hilaria made the right call here spelling the first name "Carmen" and not "Karmin". Down that road madness and bad music lie.

Are you kidding? "North West" is awesome. I can't speak for the name Gwyneth "Honky Prime" Paltrow gave to her daughter, though...

There are many different ways to choose a beer with the next morning in mind.

There's weak but pleasing beer, which you may consume at varying but equally comfortable paces, even though you wish you had better beer.

I love this article, but as someone who also enjoyed Recess, I have to note this: Spinelli was always identified on the show as just "Spinelli". That was what the character preferred, and there was that whole episode explaining why, where the playground clique of The Ashleys discovered her first name and tried to…

A John Oliver show — maybe TDS, maybe not — would be swell. I actually found his hosting funnier than Stewart's as of late; that might be because Stewart's infamous animosity towards his writing staff leads him to do a lot of ribbing on the show's topics that boils down to "Isn't this ridiculous, you guys?", with…

The sealsplosion might balance itself out over time, as some others are observing; one of the first things I learned in environmental science was how wildlife populations can go through cycles where one population's growth outpaces its predators and its resources, until they come crashing down to earth when the…