Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Same 'ol...

A co-worker orders me an Old Bushmills whiskey. When the bartender begins to pour a Jameson instead, my co-worker balks. "No, that's Catholic whiskey, Pat! We want the orange, the Protestant."

Behind us, on the television, a Rudy Giuliani campaign commercial features footage of gun-toting insurgents, explosions, and Iranian president Ahmadinejad. The voiceover: "Hate without boundaries. A people perverted. A religion betrayed."

1 comment:

bioephemera said...

I totally did not know about the religious overtones of whiskey until a few weeks ago! Probably because I grew up in the West. Where I did not have to look at Rudy Giuliani. Sigh. . .