No, I am not talking about a Ukrainian drug smuggler. I am talking about the tasty and refreshing summer cocktail to enjoy as the Republic shows signs of collapse all around. I think the way to get through the GOP convention in Cleveland this week is vodka, plenty of it and keep it coming. Given […]

I thought we were done with senseless violence and murder this week, but I guess I was wrong. I had just climbed out of the pool. I wanted to get the cardio workout done and out of the way on what promised to be a spectacular edition of gem of a day in July. I […]

Well, I will be hornswoggled. We got tagged, and are official locals at the Front Page. It was a Friday crowd and we were drinking and watching the dozen or so flat screens to see of the BLM protests scheduled for that evening were real, or some hoax perpetrated to stir up trouble. I have […]

This is a sad, but necessary read, forwarded to me from a retired senior officer. I read it in disbelief. The alternative was to write about the other elephant this has taken up residence in our collective living room, and to that I can only offer my sympathy to the people of Nice, and say […]

I was torn between writing about making the perfect dough for Piergois, the tasty polish dumpling, in Rose Wysocki’s nice cook-book, or attempt to describe the assembly of some of ancient cocktail concoctions contained in the re-print of the 1935 Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. And I have been meaning to talk about some of the sure-fire […]