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“We have returned after a brief gratitude and bird-related holiday hiatus,” says James Lileks, and indeed we are. This week, Ferguson, Staten Island, and the grand jury system. Then, author William Voegeli stops by to discuss his new book The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal CompassionLater, Ricochet member Vicryl Contessa asks the musical question “what’s your favorite scotch?” and the men of the Ricochet Podcast rally to the cause.

Music from this week’s episode:

Let The Whiskey Take The Reins by Old 97’s

The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

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  1. Grendel Member
    Grendel
    @Grendel

    That’s Vol. 5 Number XLIII.

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  2. Guruforhire Inactive
    Guruforhire
    @Guruforhire

    I brought back a 28 yr old scotch from my trip to scotland, that was finished in port pipes.  Quite the experience.

    http://www.whiskyscores.com/whisky/12823/benromach-28-years-old-port-wood-finish.html

    This stuff is a swift kick in the tastes buds

    http://www.laphroaig.com/default.aspx?ReturnURL=/whiskies/cask-strength.aspx

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  3. kaekrem@aol.com Thatcher
    kaekrem@aol.com
    @VicrylContessa

    Thanks for the hat tip, guys!

    As a S0utherner, I am equally loving of red-blooded, American bourbon. No “pinko” here!

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  4. kmtanner Inactive
    kmtanner
    @kmtanner

    Bourbon is not a whiskey. It wouldnt even exist without dumb rock stars. It tastes like your vomit.

    And you forgot The irish.

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  5. Kim K. Inactive
    Kim K.
    @KimK

    Third Ricochet podcast with William Voegeli and third pronunciation of his name. I hope I never have to introduce this guy.

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  6. user_657161 Member
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    @

    Anyone got a lead on any of those champagne drinking chicks in the background?

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  7. Hartmann von Aue Member
    Hartmann von Aue
    @HartmannvonAue

    It’s Ricochet, the booziest podcast on the web! And Lileks said “gams”!!!

    Maker’s Mark, folks, Maker’s Mark. Glad to hear it mentioned. And Glenlivet. Let’s not be too provincial in our tastes.

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  8. Peabody Here Inactive
    Peabody Here
    @PeabodyHere

    To Peter’s point about bourbon, a lot of the small batch bourbons are deceptively marketed and from large factories (at least that is what I have read)–hence way overpriced (in my opinion).

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  9. Peabody Here Inactive
    Peabody Here
    @PeabodyHere

    kmtanner:Bourbon is not a whiskey. It wouldnt even exist without dumb rock stars. It tastes like your vomit.

    And you forgot The irish.

    I like Bushmills from N. Ireland.

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  10. mezzrow Member
    mezzrow
    @mezzrow

    calling EJ Hill.

    Thinking about Peter and this line:

    “The Balvenie.  It works with the ladies.”

    Something in Billy Dee Robinson will do.

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  11. Troy Senik, Ed. Member
    Troy Senik, Ed.
    @TroySenik

    For the record, I’m a big fan of podcasts containing speculation about whether I’m underpaid.

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  12. James Lileks Contributor
    James Lileks
    @jameslileks

    Mezzrow: Billy Dee was what I was trying to reference, or at least an SNL parody of those malt-liquor commercials.

    Peabody: you’re right – there was a story about how most of the “artisanal” bourbons are coming from one huge distillery, but as I understand it, the recipes vary. It’s not one spout and a hundred labels, or they’d all taste like Old Overcoat.

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  13. user_653084 Inactive
    user_653084
    @SalvatorePadula

    So the big takeaway from this podcast is that Peter’s favorite whisky selection is based on its ability to get women liquored up.

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  14. mezzrow Member
    mezzrow
    @mezzrow

    Peabody Here:

    kmtanner:Bourbon is not a whiskey. It wouldnt even exist without dumb rock stars. It tastes like your vomit.

    And you forgot The irish.

    I like Bushmills from N. Ireland.

    Bushmills is the one to have when you’re having more than one.  Goes down eeeeeasy.

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  15. Sabrdance Member
    Sabrdance
    @Sabrdance

    I missed the earlier Scotch post, but as a Kentuckian, I should put in a plug for Woodford Reserve as your basic Bourbon.  Everyone here raves about Pappy Van Winkle for the high life.

    I’m not a drinker, though, so take that for what it’s worth.

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  16. Eugene Kriegsmann Member
    Eugene Kriegsmann
    @EugeneKriegsmann

    On the issue of drinks, I love Bulleit Frontier liquor in the realm of bourbon. For scotch I am with Peter, I love Glen Livet. I also got a gift of Oban single malt which has an intriguing flavor which I very much enjoy. It is heavier and more fruity than Glen Livet.

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  17. user_258275 Member
    user_258275
    @BoneyCole

    I have developed a real affection for Old Crow. Now the Tulamore Dew that I keep for special occasions feels like the flutter of fairy wings on the back of my throat.

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  18. user_258275 Member
    user_258275
    @BoneyCole

    I’ll buy Old Crows all around for the Welch, WV meet-up.

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  19. schwartz@oakland.edu Member
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    James,

    I was taken with your observation that we have seen a cultural shift from the father to the mother. I have been trying to get a handle on that from a psychoanalytic point of view.

    What we find there is that, in the beginning of life, the infant is tightly bound with mother, but the father stands in the way. The child at first wants to kill him, but that is not in the cards, so he identifies with him and tries to become like him. The premise is that, if he becomes like father, he can have someone like mother.

    That works nicely enough if mother loves father. But if she disdains him, hates him, has contempt for him, and so on, becoming like him is no longer seen as the route to her love. Rather, the child joins her in her contempt for him and undertakes to destroy him. That becomes the key to her embrace.

    The problem is that the father represents social reality.

    If you, or anyone else, obviously, is interested, permit me to recommend my books:

    Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organization Self-Destruction (http://www.amazon.com/Society-Against-Itself-Organizational-Self-Destruction-ebook/dp/B005TQSSJU/)

    The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry in the Roots of Political Correctness (http://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Primitive-Inquiry-Political-Correctness/dp/0765805375)

    and some working papers:

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1989593

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  20. kylez Member
    kylez
    @kylez

    Boney Cole:I have developed a real affection for Old Crow.Now the Tulamore Dew that I keep for special occasions feels like the flutter of fairy wings on the back of my throat.

    Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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  21. kylez Member
    kylez
    @kylez

    I couldn’t find any SNL skit, but this commercial for “Bolt 45” from In Living Color, apparently only run the one time and removed from re-runs. Perhaps it’s what Lileks was thinking of.

    http://youtu.be/IlR-I57nmr4

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  22. Foxfier Inactive
    Foxfier
    @Foxfier

    Better information on the Garner case, from Breitbart.com, although I heard the information it on our local news station, and it’s there’s a similar story on NewsMax.

    He was not killed by the “choke hold;” the theory is that the submission hold (which is supposed to slow the flow of blood) and other attempts to arrest him triggered the heart attack that killed him.

    There was no damage found to his windpipe or neck bones, as would be caused by being choked.

    When he started to yell that he couldn’t breathe- the very fact of being able to say it is proof that he could, in fact, get enough air; that’s basic training for telling if someone is having a panic attack or actually can’t get air in– he was probably experiencing the symptom of his heart attack, which the coroner concluded was triggered by, among other things, half-breaking the submission hold the (smaller) cop had tried to apply to him.

    Yelling at the cops to announce that you won’t let them arrest you again, slapping an arm away and ramming another man who’s on your back against a brick building is actually rather enthusiastic resistance, especially if you’re twice the size of those you’re fighting and in such bad shape that you can’t walk a block without panting.

    know that the ram-against-a-wall-to-dislodge thing hurts, even if it doesn’t look impressive, because I’ve been that smaller person hanging off the back of someone that’s bigger.  They’re using their weight, and yours— the cop is lucky he didn’t go through the window you can see in Ben Shapiro’s video.  If you’re not sure if that’s enthusiastic enough, go find a self defense class that has a suitably large guy and get him to let you re-enact it.  Please use padded walls, though, and start out very slowly, because it really does hurt.

    For extra points, try to hold the original submission hold that the cop had through this exercise, and see if you manage to even keep an arm locked around his neck, let alone properly around the neck and under the arm.

    That cop seriously needs training in how to deal with people that aren’t his size, jumping on someone’s back is a horrible idea if it’s not followed by something like “and try to rip their ear off while gouging out an eye.”

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  23. Big Ern Inactive
    Big Ern
    @BigErn

    Gents and ladies, you might take a moment and reflect on what the crash in oil prices is going to mean for towns like Fargo. There are many of the shale wells that are only profitable as long as prices are high. There are a vast number that need oil to be over $70/barrel to be profitable. If we are looking at a sustained period of sub-$70 oil, or sub-$50 as many expect, then the oil companies are going to shut down those fields faster than the mortgage refi offices did in 2008.

    I know Fargo is the great American boomtown, now, but the times, they are a-changin’.

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