Central Waters might be my favorite brewery in Wisconsin. I'm a particular fan of their Satin Solitude Imperial Stout.

See also Black History Month:

Picked up a six-pack of Ale Asylum's Off Switch double IPA last night. 8.8% ABV, and tastes kinda like drinking a pine tree, but in a good way.

Republicans are just better at branding. An estate tax that only applies to gifts and inheritances greater than five million dollars sounds eminently reasonable, but who is going to get behind something called a death tax? Or, what reasonable person could argue with something called "school choice"? We all like…

I wouldn't argue that Republican lawmakers opposed the ACA because they were racist, but that doesn't mean that they didn't consciously and cynically exploit, incite, and aid and abet racism among the electorate in an attempt to delegitimize the signature policy achievement of the first black president.

An educated and informed citizenry is a necessary requisite to a healthy democracy. A good public education for all of our citizens may result in a populace more capable of and inclined to think critically about policy and separate fact from fiction, and less inclined to vote for someone such as our beloved President.

Remember the newscaster's opening line in Children of Men? "Day 1,000 of the siege of Seattle…"

Keep it up and I'm going to chuck you out of here.

Well, of course. Just like I'm sure there were a ton of people running around medieval Denmark with names like Laertes and Polonius.

I'm trying my damnedest not to watch this. Seeing them in a month and a half. I haven't seen them since 2008 so I don't want to spoil for myself whatever shenanigans these crazy kids are getting up to on stage these days.

I still really enjoy Embryonic's darker vibe and formlessness, but The Terror left me cold. It felt like there was nothing to sink my teeth in to besides the empty and kind of bland existential dread. I'm digging Oczy Mlody so far, it mostly sticks to The Terror's tone but mixes it up with some good Soft…

Burrito Drive in Madison has the white trash burrito (yeah, the name's not great…) which consists of fried spam, Bush's baked beans, Velveeta, and tater tots wrapped in a tortilla. It's something from which most reasonable people would recoil in horror in the cold light of day, but at 1:00 AM on a Saturday night when…

Yeah, he found Jesus and became a batshit right-wing fundamentalist loon when he got sober. I seem to recall him endorsing Santorum in 2012.

That's what I'm worried about too. It's part of the normalization process of autocracy. He spends a month frothing at the mouth, then makes another speech full of the same racist and hatemongering lies, but this time plays by the rules and does it with his indoor voice and his big boy words. Suddenly everyone falls…

No, you're thinking of "Obamas of the Short Forest" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh.

A good hoppy pale ale is my favorite brew most of the time, but you hit the nail on the head - once hoppy beers were a thing, some craft brewers entered an arms race, to the point where it became unpalatable. The mindset for a lot of brewers was basically, "Oh, you like bitter, huh? I'll give you fuckin' bitter!" It's…

Also, if you're referring to Brown, that only barred segregation by state entities. Segregation by privately owned businesses was only made illegal through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, constitutionally justified as an exercise of the Commerce Clause. Totally different jurisprudence. Okay, done being a pedant.

Plenty of people made the exact same argument dismissing comparisons between segregation and same-sex marriage bans, until the latter was also found to be inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment in Obergefell.

I'm assuming you would be in favor of said proprietor being allowed to use his own discretion in this case. Just as he should be able to use his own discretion in deciding who may sit at his lunch counter, or who may drink from which of his water fountains.

Well, when advocates of the discriminatory bathroom bills in question say, "pass these laws to protect our children from being attacked," then it kind of does, yeah.