An interesting piece in New York magazine about how NBC bigwigs tried to muzzle Williams before he hung himself -- or at least his career.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... -host.html

I think he's in Florida these days

Anyone seen Deutschland 83?

oh, come on... get Tina Fey on there tomorrow and no one would remember Jon Stewart by Valentine's Day

I should probably do a poll on this, but I am afraid I would leave out some of the more interesting possibilities on the list.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... ?tid=sm_fb

I am assuming he's still drawing his $10 million annual salary, or $192,307.69 a week. Or, put another way, nearly four times the U.S. average median annual salary ($51.9k) in a week. One of my buddies, a top writer and a 30- year veteran for a mid-size daily, makes in a year what Brian Williams ma...

Okay guys ... Here's where you can weep and gnash your teeth!

It's teabagger and teabagee.

Okay, I am kind of the same way with Scotch. I do buy the some inexpensive stuff, but I've been keeping a $120 bottle of Highland Park 18 on hand in case of emergency.

I am assuming he's still drawing his $10 million annual salary, or $192,307.69 a week. Or, put another way, nearly four times the U.S. average median annual salary ($51.9k) in a week. One of my buddies, a top writer and a 30- year veteran for a mid-size daily, makes in a year what Brian Williams mak...

i wasn't under the impression that tea bagging someone involved plunging an erect penis into someone's mouth and bouncing his balls off of his/her chin. I thought it had to do with football players, frat boys and English boarding school lads holding down their friends and rubbing their scrotums agai...

Yea, but Miles was Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis's greatest alum.

I prefer Dewar's, Pinch, Famous Grouse and Johnny Black over single malt which,to me, tastes like medicine. .......... Try a Speyside single. Or if you can find it, a Lowland. If you like a light -- non-peaty -- single malt, I'd go for Old Pulteney or Glenmorangie, both Highland Scotches. Both are ...

yea, I can't stand the blends, which are almost always blends of single malts and grain whiskey, and the grain has utterly no flavor. It is just a way to dilute the the flavor out of single malts. JW Black might be the exception because I think it's -- unlike JW Red -- is a blend of malts, and it do...

Anybody watch this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgen_(TV_series)

i searched the Internet for best bang for the buck Scotches and found a site -- dramming.com -- that had a list. On this list was this: Glendronach Revival 15 yo by OLIVER KLIMEK on NOVEMBER 29, 2009 Recently re-introduced. 46% My Tasting Notes: Nose: Very rich, Christmas pudding, dried figs, pipe t...

Claude, I'm with you on Blake.

Wish we could get Frank here doing the "ask musician" thread like he did at the old place

Where are the lederhosen?

Rita -- I used to shop at Safeway all the time when I lived in Arkansas. I live in upstate New York now, near Albany, and we don't have them. We don't even have a Wegman's which is supposed to be an excellent chain, and it is based in New York state. Hannaford is HQd in Maine I think. Safeway is HQd...

Okay, this is a kind of spin-off of the "retirement" thread. I am on a quest to find less expensive versions of the good things I like. I am having a hell of a time with single malt Scotches. It would be great if I liked bourbon as well as I like Scotch, but I just don't. You can get good ...

Jimmy -- that's pretty much the way my wife feels, too. My oldest daughter is a nurse practitioner, my middle daughter, only 26, has saved around $40k for her retirement ALREADY. And my youngest is going back to school to get her BSN to become a nurse. All three should do okay, so I know I shouldn't...