Just A Nice Old Man With Whiskers

by | Dec 23, 2023 | Beer, First Amendment, Food & Drink, Liberty, Media, Rule of Law | 120 comments

This will likely be the last of the holiday movies this year, unless someone has a suggestion for a “New Year’s” movie that isn’t About Last Night.

Gratuitous full frontal nudity is fine, but when it also involves Rob Lowe during his cocaine days…*shudders*

This is my review of The Bruery Arbre:

Miracle on 34th Street, a movie capturing the imagination of children throughout every generation since Hollywood became a thing, primarily because they remade it multiple times

During Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade an old man with a beard admonishes the parade’s grand marshal:  Santa Claus.  Turns out the guy Macy’s hired to wear the suit was not up to par for this old man. After a brief kerfuffle Doris, the Macy’s corporate toad running the parade, lets the old man, named Kris Kringle, don the suit and be Santa Claus for the duration of the parade.

I love it when women wear …shoulder pads.

Turns out everyone loved the guy.  Doris then hired Kringle to be the department store Santa and as it turns out everyone loved the guy—until they didn’t.  Was he a pedophile, a sociopath, a mass murderer that kidnapped children to a secret location where they would be subject to unconscionable acts by the worlds elite?  Yes, but actually no.  They are very clear Kringle claiming to be the actual Santa Claus was completely insane and therefore could not in good conscious be allowed around children.  Put the old man in the nuthouse they said!

This is really a subplot, the main plot was focused around Doris’ daughter, coming around to the belief Kringle was exactly who he said he was.  This was actually a bigger deal in 1947 than it sounds because as it turns out Doris is a divorcee, a struggling feminist succeeding in man’s world (or something) and Kringle’s influence on her daughter would ultimately lead her and her daughter into becoming a Trad-wife (again). Doris filled the girl’s head with lies.  Its terrible, really.

Ultimately, this becomes headline news when the State of New York gets involved with determining Kringle’s sanity.  Doris’ neighbor, Fred, happens to be a lawyer that defends Kringle in court and ends up winning…by presenting as evidence the federal government recognized Kringle as Santa Claus.  By federal government, I mean the US Postal Service, who collected every letter in New York addressed to Santa Claus and sent it to his jail cell to be rid of the letters.

 

Can this be made again today?  Yes.  They remade it twice in the 1950’s, in 1973, re-released it in the 80’s after adding color, and again in 1994.  The most recent version starring the tycoon from Jurassic Park as Kris Kringle, the guy from Hamburger Hill as Fred, and the generic redhead that’s in every “family film” in the 90’s.  It was controversial for having deviated too much from the original story, having religious undertones, and the fact that Macy’s wanted absolutely nothing to do with it.  The trouble is our culture is now so obsessed with tolerating, if not celebrating “my truth.”  Anyone claiming to be Santa Claus is probably the most sensible sounding thing from the crackpots of today.  So there’s really no conflict to drive the plot forward.

Another thing I found interesting was the original was controversial in its time for portraying a divorced woman; Doris was played by Maureen O’Hara.  Even though she was in dozens of movies I only recognized her from three:  this movie, The Parent Trap, and Big Jake—all of which her character was divorced…or separated.  Jake was old school and simply abandoned his family like a real man.  This now is so commonplace its almost become unheard of for people to be married to one person for life.  I’m sure someone will get around to remaking it starring a fat lady (I’ll let you pick one) as Kris Kringle.

 

The Bruery puts out a ton of limited releases and I haven’t really come across one that I found disappointing.  Aside from the price, these tend to be around $25-$30 now.  Typically they specialize in Trappist styles, but this one from 2017 is more of a barleywine but not quite to that level.  There are three versions each corresponding to the level of char on the barrels used to age the beer.  These are not reused bourbon barrels, so its not a whiskey focused flavor.  Medium char, according to the brewer is the standout.  Certainly a holiday beer but good luck finding it. The Bruery Arbre: 4.7/5

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120 Comments

  1. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Bridget Jones’s Diary

    • Ted S.

      The original Ocean’s Eleven.
      Cavalcade.
      Night Train to Paris is an obscure Leslie Nielsen movie set on New Year’s Eve; that and Cavalcade will both be on FXM on January 4.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Never seen it, and Renee Zelweger annoys me.

    • DrOtto

      I refer to it as Bridget Jones’s Diarrhea to my wife’s consternation.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    This will likely be the last of the holiday movies this year, unless someone has a suggestion

    There’s always this one.

    I might watch it tonight if I can find it.

    • Ted S.

      TCM, tomorrow at 3:45 PM ET.

      Oh, and The Apartment, set between Christmas and New Year’s, is on Dec. 25 at 1:30 PM.

  3. Brochettaward

    Slight carry over from the now dead thread – it irks me to no end that libertarians have a kneejerk opposition to all war. Not only an opposition. To be more precise, they take it is an article of faith that war is ineffectual at solving problems. They pump up their chests and point to Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Iraq (the story on that last one is not yet written, I’d add – it took decades for functional democracies to grow in places like Korea, Japan, and Taiwan).

    A huge part of the problem is that modern warfare has tended to be a powerful nation, mainly the US, fighting against far weaker nations with a great deal of restraint involved and that the powers that be were fine with this arrangement because they were great opportunities for graft.

    Vietnam was entirely winnable. I’ll go to my grave arguing this.

    Israel can use brute force to solve its problem with Palestine. And no, that isn’t genocide or ethnic cleansing. That is propaganda employed by people who have no problem engaging in actual no shit genocide or ethnic cleansing.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      And no, that isn’t genocide or ethnic cleansing. That is propaganda employed by people who have no problem engaging in actual no shit genocide or ethnic cleansing.

      Yeah, I haven’t seen anyone say this out loud, but it certainly seems that, like “racism” before it, “genocide” has been redefined to include a lot of convenient equivocation about Muh Power Structures so that everything the designated villains do is genocide, while excusing everything done by the designated good guys.

      • Chafed

        You’re right and this is straight out of the CRT playbook. The designated oppressor is always wrong while the designated oppressed are never wrong.

    • Chafed

      I mostly agree with you. War is the last best choice, IMO, but sometimes necessary. When it is necessary, it should be fought to be won. Where there is an existential threat, like WWII, tactics that were previously unthinkable get used.

    • Derpetologist

      Vietnam was winnable, but it still wasn’t worth it. Best case scenario, it’d have ended up as a repeat of Korea, with all the problems that caused. Permanent US bases in South Vietnam and a never-ending stalemate with the north? Hard pass.

      The world didn’t end when the commies won in China, Vietnam, Cuba, Hungary, and a dozen other places. I’m glad South Korea and Taiwan are free and prosperous today. It was a mistake for the US to get involved then and that mistake has continued. No entangling alliances was and is good advice.

      I’d say the only two good wars in US history were the American Revolution and WW2. The latter would not have happened had the US stayed out of WW1, which was on track to end in a stalemate.

      On an unrelated note, I’m at my parent’s house for xmas. My mom is mobile again, but I’ll be helping her over the next few days. For the time being, I plan on staying in Florida as I don’t feel like moving again, there are more jobs there, and the dating pool is deeper. It’s a 11-hour drive to my parents’ place in Tennessee, which is unpleasant, but bearable. If I could live closer to them more easily, I would. I guess if either of them becomes permanently incapacitated, I may reconsider.

      As for the topic of this post, I never got the Santa thing as a kid and never believed it. My brother has been very gung-ho on it for his kids. If I ever have a wife and kids, I will let her take the lead on Santa and tooth fairy stuff. All I ask is no dogs pissing and shitting in the house.

      • Brochettaward

        WW2 often gets called a good war, but if we were to take an extreme libertarian position, our involvement was unjustified. You could very easily argue we provoked the Japanese into an attack even ignoring arguments about whether we knew one was coming. Our own empire building clashed with Japan’s empire building and it led to war.

        You aren’t going to find many libertarians dying on this hill because it was a war against an obviously evil set of opponents in Germany and Japan and the fact that we clearly won.

        I’m not here to argue for any specific war as much as the very ridiculous and childish notion that war is never a solution.

        I also don’t know how war wasn’t justified after 9/11, even if Iraq shouldn’t have been the target. Afghanistan was a legitimate target.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The US began conscription in late summer 1940.

      • juris imprudent

        FDR moved the Pacific Fleet out of home ports on the West Coast to Pearl Harbor (which was not equipped to support it) as a “demonstration”. It was supposed to be for a couple of weeks that stretched into a year.

        We would not have gotten into the European fight had it not been for the Germans declaring war on us.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Both the peacetime conscription and NG mobilization were only supposed to last a year.

        O H I O

      • juris imprudent

        And Washington’s precedent meant FDR should not have been President in Jan ’41. So much for that.

      • DEG

        US companies were selling weapons to Britain and China (and I think the Soviets too) long before the Germans declared war on the US.

      • Derpetologist

        I agree on both counts. The war on Bin Laden and his followers should have been a brief, punitive raid. He was allowed to escape because our local allies refused to fight at night and there weren’t enough Americans or British forces there to pick up the slack.

        ***
        The strategy, as with the whole Afghan campaign, was to limit the number of American boots on the ground.

        Instead Afghan fighters would operate under the direction of the small CIA/Special Forces teams, supported by air power.

        But at Tora Bora, the Afghan mujahideen proved unreliable allies. They refused to fight at night leaving al-Qaeda to reoccupy ground that had been painfully won.

        At one point they agreed a ceasefire which may even have secretly assisted Bin Laden. “I don’t think they were properly trained,” recalls the anonymous Special Forces soldier. “And I don’t think their heart was in it.”
        ***

        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14190032

        “Unreliable allies”

        The gym closest to my old barracks room on the base formerly known as Fort Gordon is named the Nelson Fitness Center. According to the memorial plaque at the entrance, he was killed by enemy fire. Here’s what really happened: he fell asleep on guard duty and one of our “unreliable allies” shot him in the head and ran off to join the Taliban. A guy who was stationed with him when it happened told me, and the brass made up a bullshit story to avoid embarrassment. It happens a lot. Note the lack of detail in the following report:

        ***
        DoD IDs soldiers killed in green-on-blue attack

        The Associated Press

        JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Three of four soldiers killed Sunday in an insider attack in Afghanistan were from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

        Their position was attacked with small arms fire, the Pentagon said. NATO and Afghan spokesmen said earlier that an Afghan police officer turned his gun on soldiers during an attack at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country.

        The dead were identified as Sgt. Sapuro B. Nena, 25, of Honolulu; Pfc. Genaro Bedoy, 20, of Amarillo, Texas; and Pfc. Jon R. Townsend, 1, of Claremore, Okla. The three were members of the 3rd Stryker Brigade from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. It deployed in December from the base near Tacoma, Wash.

        Also killed was Spc. Joshua N. Nelson, 22 of Greenville, N.C., who was assigned to the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Fort Gordon, Ga. Bedoy, Townsend and Nelson were on their first deployments. Nena was deployed in Iraq in 2009-2010.
        ***

      • R C Dean

        Following Wilson, there’s no way weren’t going to war against both the Germans and the Japanese. Wilson was a moralist who permanently changed American foreign policy to one focused on going abroad to find monsters to slay.

        FDR wanted only a pretext, and those are never hard to find. Before Pearl Harbor we did everything we could to provoke that pretext.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Listening to the Hardcore History on Imperial Japan and WWII – it does seem that US involvement in the pacific was inevitable even absent Pearl Harbor – given our holdings in the Philippines and elsewhere and the increasing reports of atrocities in China and elsewhere.

        The international order of alliances in the 20th century – shifting though it was is very difficult to avoid entirely and Churchill’s “English speaking peoples” as a whole re the western liberal order demands action at some point.

      • juris imprudent

        Churchill himself was an anomaly amongst British politicians. Subtract him and you almost assuredly have a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany with no aid to the USSR post Barbarossa.

      • prolefeed

        That’s — wildly out of touch with the history of that time. Hitler’s M.O. was to make treaties, grab the benefits, then break the treaty as soon as he felt it was in his best interests to do so. You can’t negotiate peace with someone who has no intention of being peaceful.

        Here’s the land areas Hitler grabbed bloodlessly:

        The Ruhr Valley, which allowed the raw materials to build up the Wehrmacht.

        Austria.

        The heavily militarized mountainous areas of Czechoslovakia.

        The rest of Czechoslovakia, now that their military had been gutted.

        When Hitler tried to annex the western half of Poland, that’s when it became so overwhelmingly abundantly clear that he wasn’t gonna stop, that war was declared.

      • rhywun

        The Ruhr Valley was long German/Prussian territory.

        /quibble

      • juris imprudent

        When Churchill became PM, his foreign minister was inquiring of the Germans about terms. It was even brought up within the Cabinet. Churchill of course quashed it, but absent him, there was no other politician clearly committed to what appeared a hopeless war effort. Remember, Dunkirk was a miraculous deliverance for manpower, and a colossal loss of materiel.

      • prolefeed

        @rhywun:

        I was referring to this: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland (German: Rheinlandbesetzung) began on 7 March 1936.

        It was a colossal bluff by Hitler, where he marched troops into there, in defiance of the treaty of Versailles, and dared the French to fire back. Hitler’s generals were horrified at this risky gambit. But when the French caved, the Germans started cranking out military weapons and supplies, leading to the bloodless land grabs above.

      • rhywun

        Huh. Shows you what I (don’t) know.

      • prolefeed

        The only way the Vietnam war was “winnable”:

        Nuke a major city in North Vietnam, starting with Hanoi, at irregular intervals, with a demand for unconditional surrender, until whichever surviving leaders were left caved. Which would have made us perpetual villains from there on out.

        Anything else, including a full scale invasion of the North involving the entire U.S. military, would have started a proxy war with China, which had a whole lot more soldiers they could sacrifice than us.

        As for whether war or violence ever solves anything — of course it does. Initiating violence as the aggressor might give you a “solution” you bitterly regret.

    • juris imprudent

      Vietnam was entirely winnable. I’ll go to my grave arguing this.

      As pointless and futilely as your firsting.

      I suppose VN might have been winnable, if there had been a southern govt with an ounce of legitimacy, instead of the succession of losers we pinned our hopes on. Try sorting out who the play-nice-with-the-Imperial-Japanese were first, and avoid them.

      • kinnath

        Vietnam was entirely winnable.

        In the same way the American west was one. Kill every fighting age male in the country; put the rest in reservations; and replace the population entirely with “white” people.

      • juris imprudent

        I mean hell, the French knew when to get out. That we went bumbling in after that is no credit to us.

      • Brochettaward

        The main point about Vietnam is it has become the ultimate card played by anti-war folks left and libertarian. It’s a symbol of futile and, to accept their argument, impossible to win war.

        The question isn’t whether it was worth fighting, but the notion that it couldn’t have been won is stupid. And I don’t think it requires Kinnath’s solution. Legitimacy of the government is kind of laughable to me. How legitimate was the North’s government? How many people did they have to kill and reeducate and how many people in the South didn’t want to live under them even if the other choice was a corrupt, feckless southern government?

        The people in Vietnam who didn’t want to live under communism, and they existed in large numbers, are conveniently forgotten when people make these arguments attacking the South and America’s involvement.

        But if the lesson people take from Vietnam is that all war is futile, that is absolutely wrong.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The northern government had zero legitimacy either but were ultimately successful.

      • juris imprudent

        More legitimacy than the south, even if that isn’t saying much. You had the people in the north that resisted the Japanese and the French.

    • juris imprudent

      And we did ultimately win. The wife loves watching Wheel of Fortune, and they have segments of wheel around the world – one was in VN.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Yes but even the Eldar gods like Wheel of Fortune.

        Ph’ngl_i mglw’n_fh Cth_lh_ R’lyeh wg_h’n_gl fht_gn”

        I’d like to solve the puzzle.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Why must we use this limited alphabet? It has no symbols that convey the true horrors of reality”

        “Because that’s the game format, Mr. Nyarlathotep.”

    • creech

      Goldwater would have won the Vietnam war. And today Vietnam would be a great trade partner, providing the U.S. with many inexpensive goods. Minus 50000 U.S. deaths and uncounted Vietnamese deaths, of course.

      • juris imprudent

        No he wouldn’t. You can’t win a war for a govt that has no legitimacy with its own people. Jesus, how many times are we going to do this before we learn?

      • Brochettaward

        You sure as hell can prop up a government lacking in legitimacy and do it long enough for it to gain said mythical “legitimacy.” Legitimacy itself can come simply from resisting communism in this case and providing a better quality of life than the alternative.

        There are even examples from the 20th century!

        You seem to be using resistance to the colonial powers as some proxy for legitimacy as if that’s what South Vietnamese in the 1960’s and 70’s were hung up on. Some undoubtedly did care, but plenty of others did not.

      • Brochettaward

        Christ, if Nixon isn’t impeached, there’s likely no invasion of the South and it would have survived a lot longer if not till today.

      • juris imprudent

        Are you saying Germany and Japan? Because neither one of those was a civil war where we chose sides. So by all means, tell me about countries we have meddled in so successfully. Then we can count the ones we’ve made a mess in.

      • Brochettaward

        What was Korea?

        How long was it before dictatorship gave way to prosperous democracy?

        You can list all the failures you want. You didn’t argue that Vietnam was a difficult win. You argued it couldn’t be won.

      • juris imprudent

        The South Koreans supported that govt, the South Vietnamese did not. It’s a pretty big difference.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A huge part of the problem is that modern warfare has has become a game with artificial rules and limitations that end up prolonging conflict and death and destruction in the name of “civility”. The laws of war are an outgrowth of the European nobility’s wish to have sporting like wars to settle quarrels with no permanent harm to themselves in most cases.

      • juris imprudent

        Didn’t industrial warfare render those rules mostly moot?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Slight carry over from the now dead thread – it irks me to no end that libertarians have a kneejerk opposition to all war. Not only an opposition. To be more precise, they take it is an article of faith that war is ineffectual at solving problems.

      There is a high probability the difference is one who has read Heinlein, vs. one that has not.

      • Brochettaward

        I don’t go to Heinlein to determine the effectiveness of war itself.

        A lot of libertarians go from opposing war on principle to outlandish statements about what is or isn’t possible that are really detached from history as a whole. They use one or two cherrypicked examples and their own preferred historical narrative to support their arguments.

      • juris imprudent

        The problem is you are arguing for war in a country that really shouldn’t ever be at war. The beauty of being a continental nation with pacified neighbors.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I’m speaking in generalities, not you specifically. Heinlein isn’t as commonly read with the younger crowd and most just assume the portrayal in Starship Troopers was close enough.

        I bring him up, and that book because it specifically cites history as the reason why war is often necessary, and the society he describes where only prior military service determines who is a citizen might result in a society that balances natural aversion to fighting with the idea that sometimes…you have no choice. That choice is best left to only those demonstrating that will to fight when needed.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Israel can use brute force to solve its problem with Palestine. And no, that isn’t genocide or ethnic cleansing. That is propaganda employed by people who have no problem engaging in actual no shit genocide or ethnic cleansing.

    Yessir, General Comfy Chair.

    [insert snappy salute]

    • Brochettaward

      General Comfy Chair enlisted and put his money where his mouth was when it was his country at war.

      So I kind of got to see the enemy-as-a-child approach to warfare hands on. How about you?

      • Brochettaward

        Israel isn’t fighting a war against an insurgency. They are fighting a war directly against Palestine. The two conflicts are entirely different outside the fact that the usual crowd is out in force to tell the modern nation dealing with barbarians that they need to use limited force out of some misguided sense of humanity.

        It is not humane to doom generations after you to forever war and the constant risk of death at the hands of barbarians.

  5. CatchTheCarp

    I watched O’Henry’s Full House recently on TCM, it was OK and I guess it could be considered a holiday themed film. Good cast and 3 out of the 5 story lines held my interest. My favorite segment had Richard Widmark hamming it up by playing his quirky Tommy Udo tough guy persona.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Marilyn’s natural voice!

  6. The Late P Brooks

    TCM, tomorrow at 3:45 PM ET.

    Don’t have TCM. And I’m a cheapskate who doesn’t like to do pay-per-view movie rentals, for some reason. We’ll see.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    It is not humane to doom generations after you to forever war and the constant risk of death at the hands of barbarians.

    I decline to accept any claim that there are good guys in that mess. They’re all a bunch of primitive tribalist savages, as far as I’m concerned. Israelis included, if that wasn’t clear enough.

    If they can’t find a way to live together, fuck ’em. Let them all die together. I’m in favor of open warfare in the Middle East, as long as the rest of the world agrees to kill the survivors.

    Merry Christmas.

    • Chafed

      Nothing screams primitive, tribal savages like Tel Aviv.

      I don’t know what’s eating at you Brooksie but I hope you get better.

    • Sean

      Spicy.

    • Derpetologist

      I’m mostly pro-Israel, but we shouldn’t be giving them or any other country military aid.

      Brooks and some others here may enjoy this ham-fisted cartoon allegory:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxmDFG0ZGw

  8. CPRM

    Strange Days is the perfect New Years movie. I mean NYE 2000! The Future!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ah yes, great movie, Tom Sizemore previewing his death!

    • rhywun

      👍 There it is.

  9. J. Frank Parnell

    The Bruery Arbre: 4.7/5

    I have a friend who grew up in Placentia who insists that everything from The Bruery tastes distinctly like Placentia tap water and, therefore, he finds it all to be undrinkable swill.

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m not sure I want to know how Placentia got its name.

      • rhywun

        lol

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Interesting. He’s going to hate this.

  10. Sean

    Don’t go out there today folks.

    Traffic sucks. Lots of cops out.
    Supermarkets mobbed and long lines at the liquor store.

    • rhywun

      Just got back from Wegmans. Holy shit it was mobbed.

      • juris imprudent

        Even our local chain market was as busy as I’ve ever seen it.

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m hoping I can get away with a commando raid down to the drug store to grab some gift cards to fulfill an obligation I didn’t know I was going to have. 😒

      • Ted S.

        Make some donations to the Human Fund.

      • DrOtto

        Money-for people

    • R.J.

      Tomorrow the cruise ship docks and I start the drive from Galveston to Dallas. It will be raining and filled with traffic. I need many coffees.

  11. kinnath

    One Way Or Another

    I have half a case of this and the partner version from Cascade Brewing.

    A lovely brew.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Or McClintock!, also featuring a young Stefani Powers.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I heard of it, watched some of it a long time ago, but I haven’t seen all of it. Therefore I can’t say I’ve seen it.

  12. juris imprudent

    starring a fat lady (I’ll let you pick one) as Kris Kringle

    There can only be one – Lena Dunham!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hoe Hoe Hoe

    • Tres Cool

      If only she wasnt such a retard….

      *sigh*

  13. Trigger Hippie

    Nice little video from a fairly well-known guy in the YT sports talk world about the general scumbagery, wild inconsistencies, and overall corruption of the NFL and its fining and suspension practices. Basically agree with most of it and it sheds a little more light as to why so many games have become unwatchable:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RjffFEFwQbY

      • Homple

        Enlightening, not depressing.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t know of this talking Youtuber. But I laugh at someone who says he didn’t start paying attention to this until the Kareem Jackson suspension this year.

      This has been a problem building since the 2000’s.

      • Grumbletarian

        Ronnie Lott would have been kicked out of the league if he were playing today.

      • Grumbletarian

        Add in Lawrence Taylor, Richard Dent, Dick Butkus, Mean Joe Green, Rodney Harrison, Junior Seau…

      • juris imprudent

        The entire Raiders defense from the early 70s.

      • Tres Cool

        Lyle Alzado

      • Grumbletarian

        On the offensive side of the ball, Jim Brown, Jerome Bettis, Christian Okoye, Mike Alstott, Earl Campbell, Craig “Ironhead” Heyward…

      • Trigger Hippie

        He was referring to how the fines and suspensions were being doled out, did some light journalism as a result, then posted a video. Not that the game has been getting softer and more punitive to defensive players.

        But hey, never let a change to be a smug, condescending prick slip bye. Right, Bro?

      • Brochettaward

        actually, the line I referenced was preceded almost entirely by talk about how defenders weren’t allowed to hit anymore. Not the stuff on fines.

        Maybe that’s what he was referring to, but that wasn’t at all clear to me. He could have been harping on this as long as I have. I don’t know. It’s why I preceded my own comment with a statement on how I have no clue who he is.

      • Mojeaux, font of all evil

        I noped out after he demonstrated that people who did not have penalties called on them during the games were still fined after Monday-morning playback. That’s sick and twisted. Then the question, “Where is that money going?”

  14. Gustave Lytton

    Holiday Affair with lovely Janet Leigh as a single mom. Widow, not divorced though.

    • Ted S.

      The idea of Wendell Corey as a love interest, however….

  15. DEG

    Typically they specialize in Trappist styles, but this one from 2017 is more of a barleywine but not quite to that level. There are three versions each corresponding to the level of char on the barrels used to age the beer. These are not reused bourbon barrels, so its not a whiskey focused flavor. Medium char, according to the brewer is the standout.

    Sounds delicious.

  16. Homple

    Do Hallmark movies provide the answer to the question, “What do women want?”

    • R C Dean

      Never been a mystery. They want a hot guy, preferably on the tall side, with lots of money, who is smart, funny and faithful.

      • juris imprudent

        That does not explain Tom Cruise.

      • R C Dean

        “Tall” is only a preference easily offset by “rich”.

      • Beau Knott

        And creative camera work

      • prolefeed

        Wanting the almost mythical unicorn R C Dean described isn’t the same as getting said unicorn. The faithful part is the stickiest thing — a young guy in the top 1% in looks, money, intelligence, and sense of humor — good luck with hoping he’ll marry you, much less be faithful. Resisting hordes of women throwing themselves at you is gonna be tough.

      • Mojeaux, font of all evil

        I write these dudes.

        I would not marry one of the dudes I write. Too much drama.

      • Tres Cool

        And competition, amirite ?

    • Mojeaux, font of all evil

      Hallmark movies aren’t for that. They’re a nice, sweet, safe escape from the shittiness of life. Also, endless autumn colors.

      And you can pry my Hallmark streaming subscription out of my cold, dead hands.

    • Derpetologist

      The invisible ink of the constitution says only politicians whose last name is Kennedy can drive drunk.

    • DrOtto

      He certainly handled that well.

    • RBS

      “North Dakota’s Democrat-NPL Party insinuated Rios should resign for his abhorrent actions on Thursday.

      “It used to be that when public servants disgraced themselves, they resigned rather than bring shame upon those they represent,” party Chair Adam Goldwyn said in a statement.

      “It seems the Republican Party no longer has a sense of shame. The Democrats are committed to governing with honor and dignity for all of us.”

      I can’t believe he said that with a straight face.

      • juris imprudent

        Written statement I’m sure, he couldn’t have said it without busting up.

    • rhywun

      Rob Zombie’s new take on The Munsters

      Oh, lord. 🙄

      • Tres Cool

        Rob Zombie and The Munsters?
        Id watch that for a dollar.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I wonder how the theme song will sound once it’s been remade into shitty numetal.

  17. Tres Cool

    Cincy 0-21 v Pittsburgh

    Glad Im not disappointed.

    • Tres Cool

      And the fact that they haven’t released who was at fault tells me a lot.

      /going to watch Die Hard