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POPSA Loved One "As the outrage over his gruesome death settled in, so did testimonials about the disheveled homeless man with a Buddha-like frame known in the neighborhood as "John," "Mr. John" or "Grimley." People spoke about his piercing blue eyes and his kind, quiet manner. The owners of the local convenience store spoke about how conscientious he was. "He never paid a penny less," said Anjana Bhowmick, owner of Bengal Liquor store "I feel that it has been a great comfort to myself and my brothers and sisters to know that he was not alone, unnoticed, untouched by other humans -- because that is what we had imagined," McGraham-Paisley said in an e-mail to The Times."
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POPSin praise of REAL fruitcake Not those nasty commercial things that are better used as doorstops than as food, this is real fruitcake made with real fruit and real liquor. Yum. Don't miss the comments, as there are a number of tasty-sounding recipes there as well.
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POPSPot Advocates Fired Up by Hill Salute to Legal Booze This item, penned by Roll Call's Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton, has a lighthearted tone, but it underscores that alcohol distributors, as we noted here http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2006/05/08/beer-tradegroup-lobby-cx_atg_0509beer.html a few years back, are a serious force inside the Beltway. The legislation passed last week lauds legal liquor's generation of "billions of dollars in Federal and Sales tax revenues" annually. With the red ink flood in Washington, maybe legal pot will get a harder look from Congress.
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POPSSin Stocks a Good Bet What to do when times are tough? Double up on life's vices, of course. That makes sellers of booze and tobacco happy.
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POPSMaking Moonshine! No comment, even though that is hard for me...moonshine would make that worse! http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/moonshine.htm
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POPSTop 10: Things Only Men Can Do At a potential risk of losing all female appreciation, I think this one was too hilarious to pass...as usual, the best ones are saved for the last!
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POPSAbsinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal Liquor Breaux's research — finally published this spring in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (.pdf) — and that Wired story have helped change absinthe's image from drug to drink. The US has been slowly peeling away its ban, and in March, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the sale of absinthes that were "thujone free" (containing less than 10 parts per million).
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POPSExplorers, Daredevils & Record Setters of the 30's The Twenties and Thirties have always been an area of interest to me. The Roaring Twenties, where we drank Bathtub Gin and danced the Charleston. Speakeasies everywhere! (One reporter did an experiment in 25 different US Cities where he timed how long it would take to be able to buy illegal liquor. Shortest time was 21 seconds. Longest was 3 hours and 19 minutes. That must have been a "Dry County.") America was in love with the "new" vogue and any fads it could find. Just a few examples: phone booth stuffing (25 college students at University of Chicago), Marathon Dancing, Flagpole Sitting, Racecar Driving, Monopoly, the :"Talkies," Radio Programs, Coney Island, Daredevil Flying, Long-Distance Swimming, Harry Houdini, Solo Flights, Self-Made Millionaires, the Gangster (especially Al Capone who courted the media), Exploring the Unknown, and Political Radical Causes! History is amazing!
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POPSmethanol intoxication & visual loss -Patients of methanol intoxication also develop high anion gap metabolic acidosis -Clinical features and acid-base disorder occurring in methanol intoxication are due to toxic metabolic products whose production can be inhibited by giving ethanol -Methanol intoxication is associated with visual loss
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POPSSex Industry booming in Jamaica I dunno, these stories are all upbeat and positive, for the most part....but it kinda makes me sad to think this is the only way to make ends meet for many women there. Having said that, I know people who work in strip clubs, and most of them lead really fulfilling and successful lives.
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POPSMoon Bats on a Bus The people at the liquor store are always asking, "Hey Rodge, why do you call Liberals pud-pulling canker-blossoms?"
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