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Posts Tagged ‘booze’

Even Think Tank People Play Debate Drinking Games

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

'Facts are stupid things.' - WonketteWe were planning on doing a GOP debate drinking game, sort of, but it’s hard to predict what a bunch of senile old men will say about anything, or if they’ll just drift off to sleep, or start beating each other with canes. In fact, a security-camera feed from the “community room” of any American rest home would be indistinguishable from the ABC feed tonight. MORE »


Metro Section: A Is For Angry

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

* “I walked out of my first AA meeting last night. I was restless and disgusted by a few of the people there …. Lately, I’ve been wondering if I even belong in AA at all.” [Journey to Self-Improvement]
* Skip your AA meeting and drop by this local press book party for free food, drinks and single moms. [The Happy Booker]
* “Every morning, I see bicycles run red lights, ride the wrong way down one-way streets, weave in and out of traffic, cut people off …. Are you driving a vehicle or not? Make up your mind.” [Night Writer]
* In spite of classy and sweet smelling RFD & Fado, a new bar opens in Gallery Place next month. [Gallery Place Living]
* DC’s #1 web novelist SethJ checks in: “‘No goin, Smokes.’ The hitchhiker had to cut in, and he had to use that hated universal moniker he lavished on all Negroes. “The whole place is heatin’ up on us, and the strip is definitely a no-go. We need to go with your guys all the way, or we’ve got no deal.” [American Night]


Most of Army Drunk, Fat

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

More than a quarter of members report that they regularly drink “heavily,” drug use is up, there’s been a 20% increase in fat people, and outrageous slapstick football games are happening more frequently than they have in 30 years: the ’70s are back in the Army! MORE »


Daily Briefing: Lists, Fists, Mist

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

* Alberto Gonzalez looks down at the flag pin on his lapel and realizes he could’ve saved one more. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Halliburton gets the hell outta Dodge. [WP, NYT]
* House drops the pointless language about not invading Iran from funding bill. [WSJ]
* Another guy in a green suit gets fired over Walter Reed clusterfuck. [WP, NYT, USAT]
* Nancy Pelosi turns the sprinklers on the hippy dipshits camped outside her house. [NYT]
* Republicans don’t like being “bottoms,” pray to Reagan to deliver them from this fate. [NYT]
* Iraqi firewater will make you crazy. [NYT]


To Do: Do All Three

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

* Free Grand Marnier at Tapatinis. [WP]
* Ken Alder discusses the invention of the lie detector and our culture’s obsession with crime at Politics & Prose. Free at 7PM. [P&P]
* Castanets (on Asthmatic Kitty) with Shapes & Sizes and Soft People at the Warehouse Next Door, $8 at 9:30PM. [WND]


Rumors On The Internets: Sober Advice Is Really No Advice At All

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

* Al Gore is planning a global warming concert/rally that will “dwarf Live Aid.” Hopefully, it won’t feature that dwarf from live aid, Bono. [FT]
* Next time Barry Hussein is dropping a deuce and thinking, “Gee, I wonder how I should run my Presidential campaign,” GQ will have him covered. [GQ]
* Donatella Versace thinks Hillary Clinton should wear more skirts and dresses. Donatella Versace also thinks a half ounce of yay is breakfast. [Suitably Flip]
* Wyoming plays the “I know you are, but what am I?” game with New Hampshire. [Election Central]
* John Edwards’ campaign bloggers were a hard target, new softer enemies include “subversive knitters.” [Michelle Malkin]
* Dennis Hastert ruined the free Air Force plane use for everybody. [Think Progress]
* Tonight’s book party for Terry McAuliffe is totally crashworthy, for the guest list and for the two-grand bottles of cognac. [Washington Whispers]


Metro Section: Some of My Best Friends Are …

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

* The beginning is nigh. [Casual Catharcism]
* The end is nigh. [DCist]
* Join DC Drinking Liberally, the DNC and the New Organizing Institute for a happy hour tomorrow night. [DCDL]
* Prepare to be exterminated, pedestrian. The master has a plan for you. [DC sidewalk blog]
* “We need White People Month.” [A 'Feel Good' Production]
* Blogger bravely digs out a few other bright, clean and articulate African-Americans to tell the grand kids about. [The Latest Obsession]


Rumors On The Internets: May No Sorrow Be Undrowned

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

* Outside the beltway naiveté rears its cute little non-partisan head as most Americans respond, “I don’t know,” when asked who they want for President in ‘08. [The Swamp]
* It’d be nice if for once we didn’t have to say it — Robert Gates is richer than you. [TPM Muckraker]
* The blog-commenter race wars continue as some feriners stank ass forces a plane to make an emergency landing. [TalkLeft]
* Rudy Giuliani: America’s “hyper-authoritarian narcissist with a lust for overkill verging on the sociopathic” Mayor. [Salon]
* William Jefferson is still running for Congress and from the FBI. [Election Central]
* Christopher Hitchens outs himself. [Echidne of the Snakes]
* Happy birthday, Booze! [Hit & Run]


Ask a Lobbyist: Open Bars, Open Roads

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Every week, our Anonymous Lobbyist answers your questions about how laws get made and why they probably shouldn’t. If you have a question about the dirty business of doing business in Washington, ask her.

This week: Breaking the law, professional bullshit, and lipstick lesbians.

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Barbara Bush Triple-Fists

Monday, November 13th, 2006

barbarabush1.jpgNow that the midterm elections are behind us, Wonkette can get back to our true purpose: obsessive analysis of the Bush Twins’ drinking habits. Today, IvyGate directs us to a couple photos of Barbara tailgating at Saturday’s Yale-Princeton game. With a red cup always in hand — and, more importantly (and highlighted at right), an additional beer in her back pocket — Jenna demonstrates, as IvyGate puts it, “true Bush-caliber commitment to drinking.” MORE »


BREAKING … BRIT HUME IS ALMOST CRYING

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I'm so lonesome I could cry - WonketteFox has been crap tonight, due to Too Much Talking and not enough giant TV screens and people calling a race every few minutes. (MSNBC hasn’t been so swell, either. CNN takes the prize, as much as we hate to admit it.) MORE »


West Coast Bureau Now Begins Drinking

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I inhaled the shit out of that joint. - WonkettePolls are starting to close out here — Nevada and Montana and Iowa (among others) at 10 p.m. Eastern time, California at 11 p.m. A whole new wave of Exit Polls are coming every hour. MORE »


Wonkette’s 2006 Midterm Binge Drinking Game!

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Booze = Freedom - WonketteYou asked for it, repeatedly, so here’s your Election Night Drinking Game.

Take a hit when:

* DailyKos makes a crazy fraud accusation.
* Rick Santorum shows up on TV for no apparent reason.
* Katie Couric mispronounces a U.S. state name.
* Chris Matthews’ spittle becomes visible to the home audience.
* A black voter is interviewed about not getting to vote.

And then we get serious, after the jump.

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Christopher Hitchens Is Depressed

Monday, November 6th, 2006

'The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics' - WonketteThe drink-soaked popinjay’s latest column for The Observer is so glum that we nearly slit our wrists, and we still can’t figure out what he’s going on about. But he is depressed, and bored, and powerless to control the forces of American idiocy that surround him. Some highlights, or low lights: MORE »