This is a good’un.

I’m gonna loop that shitkicker shouting, “SHAY DEED ET AGINN!” at the home plate umpire until someone in my office tells me to knock it off. Which will probably be never, since just about everyone is on vacation this week. Bad calendar planning as a whole on our part.

In my late 20s I dated a woman who was in her mid 20s and would aways ALWAYS ask what it’s like to have a penis, immediately after sex - you know, in that moment where some considerate women reach down and give you a little fondle.

Buying anything at all at Whole Foods is ten times more damning than eating the most cruelly rich paté, I assure you.

Sure. To put a period on this discussion, I truly was just wondering aloud if I had heard wrong from a handful of people I had encountered who knew Goldberg’s family here in Minnesota as not-exactly-devout Jews because the thirty days seems at face value to include doctrine which would indicate a comaparably devout…

I dunno where I come down on this one - kinda smacks of ESPN latching onto the largest tit they could find at the moment just for the clicks. Then again, ESPN stopped making large segments of its content exclusively sports-first YEARS ago.

Well, that’s fair - it just seems like mishnah that goes along with the thirty days would indicate practice of a comparably devout Jew. And perhaps this family is, but all I’m saying is that’s not what I was told by those back here in the Midwest who know Goldberg’s family - which is really why I wonder if I was…

Not at all - but I was a bit surprised she included missives about shiva and sheloshim so prominently in her written remarks, with the presumption that neither were devout practitioners.

Makes sense.

Hear, hear.

It’s hard to feel bad for a guy that once basically told the public, “I can’t be told to conform because I succeeded despite never getting one break in my life,” and now basically says, “How did you think it would end? I never got one break in life.”

I meant nothing beyond finding it a bit unusual that a not devout Jew would bring a rather overt explanation of how Judaism’s doctrines for mourning the dead work. Just seemed unusual and I wondered if what I’d gathered earlier about their devotion was not correct.

No disrespect, but as I understood, neither Sandberg nor Goldberg were devout practitioners of Judaism. Did I miss something, here?

This is a great read.

No. Just - no. You can’t pour a liter of Popov through a Brita a couple of times and expect to get a KLV or Uluvka on the rocks. You just can’t. I know we’d all like to think we can, but we can’t. You might get enough impurities out to reduce the firepower of your hangover, but it’s still gonna taste like cheap shit…

As a fat suburban dad - well, maybe not ‘fat’ now that this ‘dadbod’ thing is a thing - I applaud Under Armour for sticking to the original formula and not abandoning their hunting undergarments yet, even though all their mainstream sports apparel is absolute garbage.

It’s all in the drinker - I find Ciroc to be one of the less clean rocks vodkas I’ve tried, but people who prefer a ‘Red Bull and...’ or a ‘Cranberry Juice and...’ seem keen on the flavor of a grape vodka with these cocktails.

You really should find a nice, mellow bourbon from a local distillery (there’s probably one closer than you realize) and give it one more whack.

Informally asking - for you personally, what makes a whisky ‘harsh’ in this context?

I’ll just go ahead and smile at the inclusion of Johnnie Walker in any discussion where the description, ‘finer spirits’ is punctuated.