Beer Friday: Beer Events for Friday and Saturday
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This was brought to my attention by a commenter and I think it’s worth mentioning on Beer Friday — although I will miss it since I’m a northsider all day today. Over at Hoosier Beer Geek we learn of these two upcoming events. Be sure to check in with them regularly (including right now) for upcoming Indiana beer-related events.
Friday, May 29th, 4:30-6:30pm at Parti Pak Liquors in Indianapolis:
Free Beer Tasting featuring Boulder, Founders, Mendocino & Two Brothers Brewing Co.Saturday, May 30th, 9:30am at Brugge Brasserie in Indianapolis:
The end of the English Club Football season is upon us with the most important trophy to be decided this week. And the best place in town to watch is upstairs at Brugge.
FA Cup Final
Saturday, May 30 @ 10:00AM
From Wembley Chelsea v. EvertonA special Steak, Egg, and Frites breakfast will be available for $12.95.
Doors open at 09:30. No reservations.
Beer Friday: I Don’t Sell Beer I Sell Warmth
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I stole this blog idea completely from Foreign Policy‘s Joshua Keating–all apologies and respect to him (for biting his rhymes like this and for the excellent blogging and reporting he does for FP, respectively) but when you come across something that fits your own blog so perfectly there’s no choice but to yoink it completely.
So Alfred Henry Heineken is the man behind America’s most famous import lambasted here:
Heineken was enamored of branding before branding was cool and so it should come as no surprise that he is also the man behind the beer’s famous red star logo that bedecks hipster hats (and emo arms) from here to the antipodes and back ’round again.
But why should readers of Porch Dog care? Check out this madcap idea that Keating yanked from Strange Maps:
Heineken once wrote a pamphlet redistricting Europe into several tiny, ethnically homogeneous states. His 1992 piece, “The United States of Europe, A Eurotopia?” also predicted the likely separation of Yugoslavia along the lines of what eventually happened there.
I’m a big fan of the state vs nation debate and where we should draw our state boundaries, mostly because I’m (perhaps overly) fond of the uncomfortable truths that sometimes get voiced when people start talking about the problems of governing across gaps in ethnicity and the pros and cons of nationalization.
Freddy Heineken is the source of the quote that headlines this post. He died in 2002, was quite awesome until then. His daughter Charlene still owns a controlling share of the company.
Quick Question for the Web Savvy: Twitter and Porch Dog
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I’ve recently installed a tiny WordPress app that Tweets whenever I publish a new Porch Dog post. Right now the Tweet says:
New blog post: <Post Title> <url>
However, I blog about different topics–Politics, International Relations, and Beer primarily. And so it would be great if I could get one of those hashes in there to tell my tweeples what they can expect from the various posts. As of now I can add a #<subject> default, but, as far as I can tell, I can’t edit it based on the specific post.
So, my question, does anyone know of a better app than the one I have that will allow me to edit the Tweet prior to its posting?
Feel free to comment an answer or Tweet me (if you can).
More Sotomayor
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Of course we’ve already had ladies on the Supreme Court. (shhhh, I think there’s one there now). So clearly the conservative bloc can’t go after her because she’s a lady; they know that won’t work since it didn’t work before.
They initially tried to go after her for not being very bright since that worked with Harriet Miers. But (uh-oh) turns out her academic credentials look a lot more like Alito’s than Miers’ so it would seem that going after her for being a probably dim bulb aren’t going to work.
I guess the only thing left to do is to go after her for her judicial record, you know…to attack her appointment on the merits. But wait! What’s this?! I totally forgot, she’s Hispanic. There’s an angle that might work.
- Here’s Mark Krikorian race-baiting by attacking people who choose to (gasp) pronounce her name correctly.[via Pandagon]
- And here’s some nimrod making an unfathomable logical leap that Sotomayor’s love of Puerto Rican cuisine indicates that she will levy biased decisions from the bench. (Fucking what?) [via TPM]
- And don’t forget that young women of Puerto Rican heritage are routinely given preferential treatment their whole life which is why so many Puerto Rican women are now the heads of multi-national conglomerates and sit on very many powerful boards of directors and the like. [via Yglesias]
Meanwhile, the question remains: What kind of judge would she be? Turns out, she’s fairly moderate–agreeing with judges appointed by Republicans 95% of the time and in at least one case, deciding against a woman with a superficially similar background to her own on purely legalistic grounds. And there’s some skepticism that she’s not as pro-choice as some people would like.
I mean, taken as a whole, since she’s a judge that mostly agrees with Republicans on legalistic grounds, it would seem that the only real complaint they have about Sotomayor is that she’s browner than they’d like. This doesn’t bode well for a Republican comeback in 2012.
Sotomayor: In Brief
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Bah.
Look. Obama is a Democrat. He may be a “centrist” Democrat as some have claimed. He is certainly not the Socialist Monster that people who understand neither politics nor socialism believe. He may be slightly more left than his current extension of certain Bush-era policies may indicate. So any justice he is likely to appoint is going to be one that, more-or-less, believes what he believes both about policy matters and jurisprudence. Those things are going to make conservatives angry. But that’s the same anger they have that Obama is president and not Palin. Tough for them.
Bottom line:
- Obama is popular
- Obama has four more years (at least) in office
- Obama can throw up one liberal judge after another in an attempt to get one through
- Republicans don’t have enough votes or credibility to block any of them
- Barring some unforeseen revelation of sexual misconduct or fiscal impropriety Sotomayor is your next Supreme Court Justice.
All this talk that she isn’t smart enough or that she’s a “reverse racist” is just embarrasing and a waste of Republicans’ vastly diminished reserve of political capital.
I just simply am not intrested in this particular dog and pony show. Get to the up and down vote already. I will repeat what Prof Taylor said on the subject though. Since there’s no way the Republicans can stop this, it would be nice if the confirmation hearings were used for their intended purpose: to reveal and probe who Sotomayor is as a judge, and not just an attempt to score cheap political points.
That’ll be the day.
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