But that's the whole point of alcohol — it's inextricably entwined with Western history and culture. Opium and marijuana are both older, purer, and easier to produce. But there was a time when water wasn't safe to drink (at least in the city) and beer, wine and hard cider were seen as socially acceptable ways to treat…

It may or may not actually cure anything, but THC works like gangbusters for pain suppression. And if you've never had to endure any condition requiring pain suppression medication, be thankful for that, and try not to dismiss the benefits it offers to those who do.

Don't forget Christianity! Every refugee they turn away, every poor person to whom they want to deny healthcare coverage (even if they don't actually do it! just wanting to do it counts!) is a direct slap in their precious Jesus' face. They better hope that shit ain't really for real, because the afterlife isn't going…

Goddammit, Sean, you need to write more newswires. That first sentence alone is award worthy.

All of Sunny's athlete cameos are great, but I'm gonna have to go with Roddy Piper ftw.

I mean, that's basically progressivism vs conservatism in a nutshell. Boggles my mind how anyone could legitimately prefer and/or justify the latter. Goes against American ideals, against Christianity, against basic human values, etc etc.

I know everyone around here hates Birdman, but watching that, my main reaction was holy shit, Zach G can actually act

Hell, I'd not only take Reagan over Trump, I'd take Gorbachev over Trump. "Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences." Can you imagine any modern Republican saying something like that?

It was actually W's 2nd biggest* domestic screw-up, failing to respond to Katrina, that turned him from a widely-loathed-but-still-generally-respected-among-the establishment leader (which he was, strangely) into the pretty much universally loathed shitball that even many Republicans regarded him as until the rise of…

Well, aren't you just the brave little toaster for standing up to this mean old running joke. If you were truly no longer participating you'd simply collapse the thread and move on to other discussions. Instead you make a point of speaking out against it because somebody else did that first last week and got a bunch…

Why can't the term ruins be used anymore?

Fucking coastal elites, right? Experimenting with unconventional beer making like a bunch of commies. They probably also enjoy wine, foreign films and international travel. Thanks, Obama?

To be fair, I've never seen Pliny served in a tulip glass. It's served in a normal glass, like a normal IPA. It's just twice as strong, and twice as tasty.

I generally don't either, but I also don't think that the notion that they're just as racist as conservatives but simply hide it better is at all accurate. It's just childish, uninformed cynicism.

Yeah, the Democrats are so good at hiding their racism they gave this deeply racist country its first black president. But that probably didn't even really happen, right? I mean, how do we know Obama even really existed? Fucking media probably made all that shit up. Thanks, Obama!

He's probably just really into David Cross right now.

The art museum has like 4 rooms, the highlight of which is a tiny, sad little Rembrandt. And no wonder: Ireland has always been a poor country, unfairly treated by its condescending Imperial overload, and that doesn't really lend itself to the kind of grandiose attractions so readily found throughout the rest of…

Man, "each employee got 2 free cases a month from whatever inventory they couldn't sell" would never fly today

It looks like the Newswire is now its own thing with its own slightly distinct style because … because … because there is presumably money to be made from doing it that way? OnionCo/AVC has always sucked at branding.

On the other hand though, this is surely bringing more attention to his speech.