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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Test post after so much inactivity.]]></description>
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		<title>Crushed Expectations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a dumb technical question: how do you crush ice from cubes for stirred drinks? I&#8217;d hate to take a hammer to it. &#8212; Wolf Young fellow, in the past, I have done exactly that&#8211;wrapped ice cubes in a dish towel and hammered away until it was limp and soggy and my latent aggressions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Fire with Kerosine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suffering celebrants have this morning two options: going it again or going without. Mr. Eric Felten of the Wall Street Journal discusses the options. I myself am partial to the &#8220;liquor-egg-dairy lines&#8221; favored by Mr. Frank Sinatra.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designateddrinker.com/2009/01/fighting-fire-with-kerosine/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Very Bright Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the world is too dark And I need the light inside of me I&#8217;ll walk into a bar And drink fifteen pints of beer &#8212; Shane MacGowan, &#8220;Streams of Whiskey&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designateddrinker.com/2008/12/its-a-very-bright-light/</link>
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		<title>Rifkin on Good Citizenship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I had three cans of beer along. I drank them slowly in the increasing, savage heat of midday, dropping the empties into the slow river. I was not a good citizen. I didn&#8217;t flatten them first.&#8221; &#8212; Shepard Rifkin, The Murderer Vine]]></description>
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		<title>Will &#8220;Blago&#8221; Replace &#8220;Blotto&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some events current, some less so. Mr. Eric Felten of the Wall Street Journal commemorates the &#8220;delightfully vulgar Blagojevich affair&#8221; with the cocktails du jour&#8211;and of yesteryear. His recipe for Cohasset Punch, itself an ingredient in Saul Bellow&#8217;s Dangling Man: 1Â½ oz dark rum 1 oz sweet vermouth juice of Â½ lemon Â½ oz syrup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brillat-Savarin on Fermentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Burgundy makes you think silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them; and Champagne makes you do them.&#8221; &#8212; Brillat-Savarin]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designateddrinker.com/2008/11/brillat-savarin-on-fermentation/</link>
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		<title>E Clampus Vitus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satisfactory &#8220;doin&#8217;s&#8221;: â€œItâ€™s a common saying that no one has been able to tell if they are historians that like to drink or drinkers who like history,â€ said Dr. Robert J. Chandler, a senior historian at Wells Fargo Bank and a proud member of the groupâ€™s San Francisco chapter. â€œAnd no one knows because no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designateddrinker.com/2008/11/e-clampus-vitus/</link>
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		<title>Fernet Bars: A Trend I&#8217;d Like to See</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Atlantic Monthly, Wayne Curtis explores the bitter truth of Fernet Branca&#8211;which, contrary to popular misconception, is not the older brother of Glenn. Other than that, itâ€™s hard to describe what Fernet Branca tastes like; it mostly tastes like Fernet Branca. But to give you an idea: in 1960, Betsy von Furstenberg was suspended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designateddrinker.com/2008/11/fernet-bars-a-trend-id-like-to-see/</link>
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		<title>O&#8217;Neill on Portion Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ANNA: Gimme a whiskeyâ€”ginger ale on the side. And donâ€™t be stingy, baby. LARRY: Shall I serve it in a pail? ANNA: That suits me down to the ground. &#8212; Eugene O&#8217;Neill, Anna Christie Recalled to mind by the Web log of Ms. Iris Iris, who refers us to a third location, where you may [...]]]></description>
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