No mention of martinis? After I moved on from Gin & Squirt, I went with Gin & Vermouth. Then I found it was better if I just waved the vermouth cap over the glass. Today, in homage in Winston Churchill I just pour the gin and bow towards France.

Gordon's London Dry has been the #1 seller in the UK for years. Hendricks has been around awhile; a better "New American" would be The Botanist which is out of Islay, Scotland. Any alcohol from there deserves your attention.

And speaking of Gordon’s London Dry and the medicinal properties of gin:
Gin-Soaked Raisins­

It works.

I'll alert the media.

I cannot argue with any of the above logic, although we're running out of time with James Cromwell. As for deeper reading - What’s the most untrustworthy animal? - That would be a human.

This seems to be a great book to have during a drinking game.

Could be updated or will be updated? Pretty much everyone in Maine knew this was coming. Senators were involved in getting it added. Judging by today's front page in the Portland Press Herald, guess no one really looked at it until after the announcement. . .

One could do a whole article on the Zucker brothers, Abrahams, and their Kentucky Fried Theater. Airplane! was their second movie collaboration; the first being The Kentucky Fried Movie­. Anyone remember that? The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven.

Sadly, I could probably rank Airplane! only as high as #2. Not funnier than Groundhog Day.

“Uninhabited wilderness had to be created before it could be preserved.”

Well said.

I always got kick out of Mary's answer to her mom's question "What's he doing down there?" In It's a Wonderful Life."

"He's in the parlor mother; making violent love to me."

"Well you tell him to stop! Sam Wainwright's going to call.

Timely. I'm supposed to be up in Randolph, ME smelting along the Kennebec River right now. Got a call this morning that an ice jam was heading downstream directly towards the smelt shacks and there was a mad scramble going on to get them off the river. Maybe next week. .

For me, this gets interesting when I scroll so that only one-half of the dots at the top are visible.

Eliminating comment sections at pretty much all news sites would be an excellent step in fixing society as we know it. Nearly all comments on Fox, CNN, The Washington Post, et. al, are worthless. I don't believe for a minute that those sites use comments to encourage open and constructive dialogue. If it was my site, I'd be embarrassed by what was being posted and would have shut it down.

I’m reminded of my favorite story from Robert Fulghum­.

One of his first jobs was working the night shift at NYC hotel. Janatorial stuff. He was assigned a partner; an older man who was also a holocaust survivor. They’d do their thing every night and break for lunch. The meal was free, provided by the hotel, and was always whatever was left from the night’s dinner menu.

One week they had chicken three nights in a row. On the third night Fulghum loses it. “I’ve had it” says. Chicken three nights in a row. I’ve got a real problem with this. You’d think they could find something else to give us.”

His coworker listens silently until the rant is over and then says “Fulghum, your house is on fire; that’s a problem. You can’t feed your family; that’s a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Learn to tell the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.”

The (awful) power of the internet. I'm thinking that because of what those twelve (12) year old girls did - slenderman deserves nothing other than a deep dark spot within the ash heap of internet history.