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Drinking Liberally 10/30: Dems at Drexel

Posted by Brendan on October 30th, 2007 filed in Philadelphia, alcohol, politics

,a href=”http://www.drinkingliberally.org”>Drinking Liberally! Tuesday evening at the Tangier, 18th and Lombard Streets, in Philadelphia, starting at 6:00 PM until we get done. Drink specials and free wings for early birds.
The Democrat and Democratic candidates for President will be debating tonight at Drexel University, and with any luck the guys at the Tangier will [...]

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Fred Thompson and Carrie Nation: A Match Made in Hell

Posted by Brendan on October 28th, 2007 filed in alcohol, crime, politics, right wing dingalings

Via Atrios, we learn that Fred Thompson spent much of his early days chasing moonshiners
During a candidate debate this month, Thompson said he spent those years “prosecuting most of the major federal crimes in middle Tennessee — most of the major ones.”
But a review of the 88criminal cases Thompson handled at the U.S. attorney’s office [...]

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Drinking Liberally, October 2

Posted by Brendan on October 1st, 2007 filed in Philadelphia, alcohol, blogs, direct action

Drinking Liberally gets together this Tuesday, October 2, at the Tangier bar, corner of 18th and Lombard Streets at 6:00 PM! Drink specials and free wings for early birds!
Sometimes, you need to take a break from ugly politics and crass calculation, so this week’s DL bulletin will be fairly devoid of rhetoric and bile. Let’s [...]

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Drinking Liberally, 9/25

Posted by Brendan on September 25th, 2007 filed in BAH, Democratic Idiocy, Philadelphia, alcohol, big business as usual, calling bullshit, politics

Drinking Liberally: this Tuesday at 6:00 PM at the Tangier Bar at 18th and Lombard. Drink specials and free wings for early birds.
No one ever said Bob Casey was going to be the most progressive voice in the Senate, and a number of us actively worked for his opponents during the primary season. Yet most [...]

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“Stomach Virus”

Posted by Brendan on June 8th, 2007 filed in alcohol, hypocrisy, impeachment, right wing dingalings, snark

Iced tea doesn’t have a head
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Stricken with a stomach ailment that confined him to his hotel room,
President Bush still met Friday with France’s new president and prepared for talks in Poland on a new missile defense system.
The president was already dressed when he began feeling ill in the morning, White House counselor [...]

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Answering Tinsley

Posted by Brendan on February 7th, 2007 filed in alcohol, calling bullshit, comics, hack, right wing dingalings, snark

Angry drunk driver/ right wing hack Bruce Tinsley is leveling one of his typical scurrilous, unfounded, and utterly false attacks at the Democrats, this time accusing the party of racism under the guise of promoting Walter Williams as a GOP Presidential contender. It’s been going on all week.
Today’s steaming pile of offal [...]

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Day 4

Posted by Brendan on January 27th, 2007 filed in alcohol, meta, personal well-being

On Wednesday morning, after a hard night of drinking and mocking the Pweznit’s widdle speechy-poo, I decided it was high time I took a break from the booze.
Today marks day 4 without a drop of the sauce. Not a bad start for someone who’s been putting away anywhere from 4-6 beers a day, every [...]

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Taking a Break

Posted by Brendan on January 25th, 2007 filed in alcohol, meta, personal well-being

On Tuesday night, I got ridiculously, fantasticly shitfaced while playing the State of the Union Drinking Game, in which the Pweznit’s stock phrases, stock lies, and numerous facial tics and twitches are the foundations upon which one drinks a lot of booze. “Bipartisanship”? Knock wood and drink. “Mispronounces ‘nuclear’”? Drink. “Mentions a [...]

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Joe Sweetland Takes a Dive

Posted by Brendan on January 5th, 2007 filed in alcohol, biography, writing

Joe Sweetland was a punk rocker and former high school wrestling star who lived around the corner from me on Hall Avenue in 1989, the year I had my first apartment, the same year I banged Nicole Grand in a schoolyard, a few days after she gave Candle Randall a blowjob on her sofa while [...]

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Drinking Liberally, 12/10/06

Hey everyone,
Drinking Liberally is this Tuesday December 12 at the Tangier in Philadelphia, corner of 18th and Lombard Streets. We start around 6:00 PM, and go until things wind down. Bring a friend, and win a chance to give Noz a lift home (really, he needs one).
Anyway, I tried to write a light, snarky DL [...]

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