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Japanese booze corporations are weird. They will buy a tradition brand because of nostalgia/feels and sometimes try to turn it into something and wildly succeed. Other times, they will just totally misunderstand the market and let it die on the vine. for every Four Roses, there’s a Anchorsteam.

Anchor, as far as I know, was the only company that made a commercial Small Beer, which is a second brewing off the dregs of Barley Wine. It's an ancient English style and not well known, Very low ABV. I had it in San Diego about a decade ago on tap. Just the kind of stuff Fritz Maytag loved to do: "People are demanding a high ABV beer!" "Cool. We will give it to them. Then we will make an extinct style of beer that I've been wanting to do for years off the second runnings"

Buckle up, because a lot of craft beers you either know or love are going to disappear over the next few years. I was taking to a local brewer this weekend and he basically summed up the industry this way: if you are a macro, or a tiny tap room, you are doing fine. Everyone else is getting squeezed six ways from Saturday by inflation, leveraged PE, and over saturation

Good stuff. Fun fact: I got to see Shane Warne destroy the English from the hill at the Gabba in 94. Got a hell of a sunburn. RIP Warnie.

Not only that, I’d move the NASA facilities as well.

Looks good Chef, but need to watch the browning on the eggs. Let’s not summon the tiny angry ghost of Escoffier.

Remember Elon: the Dildo of Consequence rarely arrives lubed.

Sorta. The Senate needs unanimous consent to move the previous question. Without that, the majority leader must invoke cloture to end debate on the topic at hand. Failing that, they can table the question and move on to other business, and then bring it up later if they want, because technically the question remains unresolved. Without a cloture procedure, whatever the vote required, the Senate can not move on to the business at hand without unanimous consent. It’s Robert’s Rules on steroids. For non major legislation, there is an honor based system that allows any senator to block anything. If you reduced cloture to a majority from 3/5ths as it currently is, then 50 senators plus the VP can move the question and call a vote on the resolution/bill/whatever, which is also based on majority vote for passage. This all is because Aaron Burr thought the emerging rules of debate were duplicative and had the senate change its rules to eliminate a vote to move the previous question (end debate). Two decades later John Calhoun realized that meant any senator could basically stop procedure. In the 1910s the created cloture of 2/3. In the 70s it was reduced to 3/5.

Hunter Biden’s Giant Dong and an 8 ball is an unstoppable combo.

Talking filibusters are actually worse than the existing situation. It prevents the senate from moving on to other business. I won’t get into the weeds, but they eliminated the talking filibuster so the senate can do two things at once. Rn, if McConnell objects, Schumer can lay the issue aside and take something else up. If you have talking filibusters, the senate literally can not do anything u til the objection is resolved.

Nein. Most of my family are UT grads. I went to Bates to strike out on my own. Neither of my kids even looked at Bates. boy 1 might do UT law after Trinity. But that’s not really legacy in the way you mean. Interestingly, Amherst was notoriously legacy friendly, even by NESCAC standards, but they abolished legacy admits 2 years ago, and it’s putting pressure on all the other Baby Ivies. funny story, when the Williams rep talked to my sons school, he was asked about legacies and his reply was to the effect: “it can be a small boost, but it doesn’t compare to all A’s. We don’t like to see B’s at Williams.” what an ass

Travel hack: Get a cheap ass pocket knife sharpener and keep it in your suit case. Like an accusharp or something. it will put an edge on those dull ass ikea knives in every airbnb if you plan on cooking. Just be sure to get one that will get through airport security.

A watch is literally the only jewelry I wear, and I wear it whenever I leave the house. I rolled a Hamilton Khaki on a Nato for close to 15 years, which I only took off at bedtime. I now have a Sinn 856 UTC, which I wear whenever I go out, but it's kinda heavy on my tiny, child like wrists, so I take it off when just sitting around the house. I'll wear a mechanical watch until they put me in the ground. I'm strongly considering a Tudor Pelagos 39 as an everyday watch now that I've have some disposable change. I digg the Sinn, but as I mentioned, it's kinda heavy and uncomfortable for me.

Danke, sir.

That's my point about East Coast Becky. The further from the top 10 you get the more schools have to start accepting lower qualified men than women in order to keep some gender diversity. As my wife put it: not every girl want to be consigned to four years of 'experimenting with girls" because the talent pool of male applicants was so poor.

I had a good friend whose brother worked Admissions at Princeton before heading off to law school. He told me one year they let in all the qualified tuba applicants because they were graduating a bunch of tubas. He said that after some point, there is literally no difference between the applications, so you start doing shit like that. So yes, a random lottery is probably appropriate for the top 10 schools once you set the pool. I was being reductive and jokey about Y chromosomes, but my point about gender still stands: one you get outside the Top 20 universities, and the Top 10 liberal arts, balancing the gender in your class starts becoming an issue, Men just don't apply and go to higher Ed in the same numbers.

As a related aside, a group, which does not need a hand up, but is also discriminated against, is high achieving women in higher education. When my boys were applying for school, one of the jokes is the worst demographic to be in if you wanted to go to an elite school is "East Coast Becky" ECB is vice president of student council, captain of the field hockey squad, first chair of the clarinets, and lead in the high school play. Becky is from an East Coast state with garbage public higher ed, like Maryland or New Jersey, and desperately wants to go to Stanford or Michigan, but she definitely doesn't want to go to Smith or Bryn Mawr. Her opposite, who does get a hand up, so the class isn't 75% women, is literally any chump with a Y chromosome.

I mean, your points are valid, but the Asian Tax is real. And to my mind, no different than discrimination against Jewish students 100 years ago. That doesn’t mean this decision is correct, but to be clear: admissions offices are terrified that if they don’t trim Asian acceptance rates, they’ll dominate an incoming class after you reserve sits for legacies, athletes, donor kids, etc.

Did we have a shot at him? If so, what happened? Didn’t want to take on Colt? Did Butterteeth fuck it up? If he went to Michigan, wouldn’t have been pay for play.

Look at the ocean. Swim in the pool. RIP. Sorry for his family.

Part of the reason I have Max is so I have access to the full WB animated back catalogue

I always interpret it as he has a weird strike zone, but he calls it pretty consistently. As opposed to Thomas and Alito, who are Angel Hernandez on roids.