Shaken, not stirred

The Martini: Why everything you know is wrong

Probably like a lot of people I had no idea what made a real martini. I still don't, but I can talk intelligently about it after reading this article. Good thing I'm not a purist about this sort of thing.

Really, when you think of it, gin is not traditionally known as the drink that the upper classes drink, so it's probably just a way to make gin trendy so the images of bathtubs and smelling like elderberries don't come to mind...

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This person

has a good attitude.

My Faithlessness: The atheist way through AA

The only required really is a desire to stop drinking, and all those program adherents who proclaim a necessity to believe in a specific god have forgotten that the steps say that a higher power is whatever you choose him (or it) to be. Many people have had a good life of happy sobriety with nothing more of a higher power than the group they attend.

Good for you, Marya. One day at a time...

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Good choice

I'm pretty sure I would have put him in jail without bail myself. I wonder if a good lawyer will get him off?

N.Y. man shows up to DWI hearing late, drunk, carrying open beer

Sillier things have been known to happen in the law...

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The mind boggles

Malaysia delays caning of woman who drank beer

Most people are fined, but they're making a lesson out of her. Still,

"In an interview with the AP last week, Kartika said she wanted to be caned because "I want to respect the law.""

Except that she doesn't want to respect the part of the law that says not to drink alcohol. Weird.

Malaysia. Another place not to go for vacation...

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