56 min
Whiskey and...Republicanism! "WhiskeyAnd DotDotDot"
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- Gastronomía
Just in time for the election of a lifetime, my drinking companion Dan Eckman is a whiskey guy and...a life-long Republican! Who knew? Dan picked a superb bottle - the discontinued Compass Box Eleuthera Blended Malt (ripe fruits wrapped in bacon smoke) - and we got down to it: From Ayn Rand (and her stinker namesake Rand Paul), to Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, Bush and all the way to....well, that guy that's there now.
It gets lively as we both joust, parry, feint and weave over what the GOP is; what makes a good Republican (hint: they're nasty and like war); why Democrats can't find their way out of the tent (hint: they're confused and too open); why Reagan is burning in hell; and just what does Lewis Black and David Mamet have to do with it? In between there's solipsism, begging the question, appeals to emotion and enough strawmen to surround the children of the corn. That bottle got crushed in the meantime and Dan laid the trap for Part II...
Just in time for the election of a lifetime, my drinking companion Dan Eckman is a whiskey guy and...a life-long Republican! Who knew? Dan picked a superb bottle - the discontinued Compass Box Eleuthera Blended Malt (ripe fruits wrapped in bacon smoke) - and we got down to it: From Ayn Rand (and her stinker namesake Rand Paul), to Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, Bush and all the way to....well, that guy that's there now.
It gets lively as we both joust, parry, feint and weave over what the GOP is; what makes a good Republican (hint: they're nasty and like war); why Democrats can't find their way out of the tent (hint: they're confused and too open); why Reagan is burning in hell; and just what does Lewis Black and David Mamet have to do with it? In between there's solipsism, begging the question, appeals to emotion and enough strawmen to surround the children of the corn. That bottle got crushed in the meantime and Dan laid the trap for Part II...
56 min