After a few failed attempts, we sat down with Cocktail Hour contributor and author extraordinaire, Colette Moody to chat about politics. It seemed a fitting topic for inauguration day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Moody made a few appropriate drink suggestions and she and I tried a couple of them. Andy was booze free. I’m still organizing that intervention we discussed on the Highwaywoman show… Anyway, I had a shooter, simply called MLK and Colette had King’s Jubilee.
MLK Drink Recipe (found at sofakingdrunk.com – which is a FABULOUS name)
0.5 oz Amaretto
1 splash Lime juice
0.5 oz Rum (it calls for Bacardi 151 but I used standard light rum)
0.5 oz Jagermeister
Shake all ingredients with ice, and strain into a 2-oz shot glass, and serve.
Kings Jubilee (we found it here: http://drinkgal.com/2012/01/mlk-day-cocktails/)
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz Maraschino
1 1/2 oz Daiquiri Rum
Shake over ice and strain into cocktail glass
We talked a lot about congress and guns. I’m certain we’ll piss some people off but it’s bound to happen when talking about politics and guns. The Piers Morgan show featuring gun advocate, Alex Jones, was briefly mentioned and we wanted to make sure you could see it, too, so I’ve embedded the YouTube video here for your convenience. You don’t have to wait long for the guy to turn into a terrifying lunatic. Folks like this scare the shit out of me. I couldn’t stop watching. Wow.
Don’t forget to send Moody some love and reminders to write more and faster and to get those damn Last Calls submitted! (colette at cocktailhour.us)
Hope you enjoy the show and check back often for more Cocktail Hour fun!
15 responses to “Bar Rag – Politics with Colette Moody”
I for one would be all about it if you made a searchable drink database where I could keep track of my piddly booze catalog
Also, I think Alex Jones is someone even Glenn Beck thinks is an extremist
I thought I’d have to watch for a few minutes before he went bat-shit crazy but he just launched right into insanity.
Oh yeah, he wears his crazy right on his sleeve. Right next to his holster
Rev, try http://www.webtender.com/ and for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitaloutcrop.mixology&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5kaWdpdGFsb3V0Y3JvcC5taXhvbG9neSJd
Great show, guys. Wish I had been there to talk with y’all.
—>Susan
Thanks Susan! I briefly checked out the Webtender site and it’s pretty close to what I’m looking for. I’ll have to look more closely in a bit.
And thanks for the kind words!
For republicans it’s ok if kids get shot at school because every moron can carry and own a gun. However, It’s not ok for women to prevent pregnancy after a rape. I wish we would turn on our brain more often….
You make a great point, Alena. Many seem to only care about saving lives or helping people if they’ve not been born yet. Once you’re out of the womb, you’re on your own!
Moody! Listening to Rachel Maddow and, shocker, the VA senate jammed through some new redistricting and is working on getting the way the electoral votes are distributed changed to be based on congressional districts.
If the new redistricting goes through and/or the electoral vote distribution process changes, VA Dems are fucked.
One would think that would make them finally give DC people representation. But then that would help Democrats, so that’s not gonna happen…
I just recently found out that DC doesn’t have representation! That’s serious bullshit.
Hence the “Taxation Without Representation” license plates
I love that the president has one of those on his limo.
—>Susan
Great show! If you ;don’t have a little humor in your politics; you will lose your mind.
Alex Jones is the guy who said that it would be a bigger tragedy if he lost his guns than the mothers who lost their children in Newtown, I won’t even dignify this man and call him a putz, his rhetoric and buffoonery is what makes me think that they should take the guns away from everyone, the second amendment talks about a “well regulated militia” for defense of the state, because at the time we did not have a standing army. My niece went to school not even 20 miles from this school it could have been her school. what an unbelievable asshole he is.