Late-Breaking Boozing…(Tonight in DC Edition)…

In what is arguably the "the most extraordinary collection of talent" since Thomas George Jefferson dined alone, Reason staffers Ron Bailey, Kerry Howley, Julian Sanchez, Jacob Sullum, and me, along with Reason Foundation president David Nott and Reason magazine publisher Ron Burr, will be meeting for drinks tonight around 9pm upstairs at Soussi on the corner of 18th Street NW and Kalorama.

Stop on by if you've got the time and a thirst.

Comments

[Rusell]

Perhaps the Iraq desk should advise the Under Secretary of Cunning Plans to
appoint Saddam _as_ the Iraq Olympic Boxing Team.

After a few dozen quarter-final rounds with Kurdish Heavyweight hopeful Hurricane MacKirkuk ,Israeli Welterweight Goliath Ben-Gath,and Kuwaiti palooka Sandman al-Monsoon, Saddam should gladly cop a plea on a few thousand counts of aggravated mayhem.

[Rush]

Oh Crap would that be a BLAST. Too bad Matt Welch just left for the LA Times, probably because he is in LA. Damn I would love to be there. I owe you guys a number of beers. Or scotches.

[Crusader Rabbit]

What part of L.A. is that?

[mtc]

i'm pretty sure it's the part of LA in Washington, DC.

[mk]

Around here "LA" means Lower Alexandria

[Stevo Darkly]

I hate to nitpick tangential minutiae, but re:

Jefferson compiled tables comparing the weights of American animals and their European counterparts, pointing out the size of the American bear (twice as big as its European counterpart) and the buffalo (utterly without a European counterpart).

...either the writer of the item at strangescience.net or Thomas Jefferson himself was mistaken. The American buffalo, or bison, has a similar-sized and closely related European counterpart in the European bison, or wisent. Although it was already pretty rare in TJ's day.

[Sandy]

They still live in Poland, and the grass they prefer to eat is a key ingredient in Zubrowka, the finest vodka money can buy. To bring this fully home, it's available at W Domku, a Polish restaurant in DC.

[Stevo Darkly]

To bring this fully home, it's available at W Domku, a Polish restaurant in DC.

Wisent is?

[Stevo Darkly]

Oh, and just to take this away from home again, "W Domku" has an awful lot of vowels in it for a Slavic name.

One of my favorite ethnic European restaurants in St. Louis is a Bosnian place called Grbic. I say their slogan should be, "Grbic -- it's fckng fntstic!"

[Sandy]

It's the Serbs (and hence Croats and Slovenians) who think r is a vowel, not the Poles. But then they have rz as a vowel sometimes (chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie).

[Grabowski]

Zimne Piwo!

[smacky]

"Grbic -- it's fckng fntstic!"

Strzvr,

Thrzt's frzckrn' hrzlrzrrzrzrzs.

[Strzvrzdrzrkly]

Thrznks, smrzcky.