My daughter and I are back from Brownsville, Oregon, after our annual orgy of small town Americana—a 4th of July weekend filled with horseback riding, softball, fireworks, swimmin’ holes, community pancake breakfasts… and of course, about five and a half hours straight of tossing pizza by a backyard, wood fired oven.
And let’s not forget the beer, a keg of some hoppy, ever-so-slightly fruity elixir from Ninkasi Brewing in Eugene.
Yum.
Now some might argue that the way we Americans tend to celebrate our nation’s birth—with fun and food and lots and lots of beverages—somehow trivializes our founders’ daring and dangerous struggle for independence, and the many hardships they endured, but I’d argue exactly the opposite. For what freedom is greater, and more worth celebrating, than a freedom we are free to take for granted? And what better way to honor this freedom than to do exactly that?
We live in the wealthiest, most powerful and most secure nation in the history of the world. I hope you enjoyed America this weekend as much as I did.
Why would anyone want fruit-flavored beer? What’s wrong with beer-flavored beer? I don’t know about you, Goldy …
Hope your hoppy beer from Eugene was prepared with Roger’s finest hippety hops.
My dad was co-captain of Eugene’s smokin’ leather helmet football team in 1926. Perhaps your hoppy-ever-so-slightly-fruity contributed to his success, and certainly hope you brought a mini keg back for the Shark. You owe him.
The divine Ms. Sarah would have been easier to take with lots of fruity flavored beer or lots of beer-flavored beer. Wish I’d had some.
I wonder if Sarah Quitter will be indicted for embezzling funds in the construction of a Wasilla, Alaska, sports arena? I’m certainly not suggesting she embezzled funds in the construction of a Wasilla, Alaska, sports arena; I’m just curious whether anyone has any information about this.
@4: LOL. Be careful, methinks I hear the pipes getting ready to pipe up again.
BTW, agreed to the post. Wave the flag all you like; freedom and liberty is not having to.
@5 I’m not worried about the banging pipes; when pipes bang it’s just hot water making corrosion creak. I’m worried about that Van Flein guy threatening to sue the New York Times and Washington Post for asking questions, though, because if asking questions is now actionable in this country, then I might be next.
Not to worry. Actionable presupposed action. In your case — that of an on-his-back old slacker — they know you’re not worth the trouble.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Nice try trying to put the focus on Palin.
Obama however, is president and tanking.
Biden says they miscalculated on economy.
Colin Powell told Obama to STOP DEFICIT SPENDING Rampage.
It’s coming apart at the seams.
Roger @1,
I said the beer was ever-so-slightly fruity (technically, yeasty), not fruit flavored. There’s a big difference.
Actionable presupposes action.
Fruity beer presupposes fruits.
@9…Goldy…
At the NW Brewers’ Fest held at Kenmore’s St. Edwards State Park over Fathers’ Day weekend, one of the craft brewers had a nacho-flavored brew that they said tasted like Doritos. It was gross.
Sure weren’t no Sierra Nevada…
The Piper
Nacho beer? Sounds as bad as bacon ice cream or turkey gravy flavored pop.
Goldy, I like how you want everyone to appreciate our freedom and not take it for granted. How is it that everything you are for politically is against our freedom? Are you conflicted? Did you have a stroke? How was the pizza?
Nacho beer? Not mine, either…..
I just wanna see the pic of Goldy after that first toss…. you know, the one where he missed it on the way down and it hit him in the face?
I wouldn’t describe Ninkasi as “fruity”, but I do like it quite a bit. You can drink it on tap at the Monkey Pub in the U District or by the bottle at Full Throttle Bottles in Georgetown. Good stuff.
You want a fruity IPA, try Lagunitas Hop Stoopid IPA, also at Full Throttle. I don’t go for lemon in hefe, but I do like that slighty citrus tangy IPA.
Uhhh-huhhhh.
And where was Powell when Bush and the Reagan Republcians in congress ran up $11 Trillion dollars on America’s credit card at the Bank of China??
You’re such a moron.
Goldy
Puddy agrees wholeheartedly. But when “the messiah” gives away 1/3 of our nuclear arsenal for what, do you continue to feel safe with Iran and North Korea beckoning?