In the latest installment of my "Civilization and Its Discontents" column for Mutineer Magazine, I sing the praises of Jameson Irish Whiskey. A snippet:

Let’s face it, the Irish are no strangers to misery — witness the Great Potato Famine and Sinead O’Connor’s entire musical catalog, for instance — but they sure have developed an effective method of coping with it. John Jameson began producing his signature whiskey in Dublin way back in 1780, and for the past 230 years his people have been drowning their considerable sorrows in its toasted woody goodness. But in recent years, Jameson has become quite fashionable worldwide at the trendy watering holes of the breezy beau monde, where it’s not uncommon to see happy hipsters shooting it straight or enjoying it in a gimlet or sour. In places that cater to manly men such as myself, you’ll often find Jameson being used as one of the three ingredients in that most leg-wobbling of grog-shop concoctions, the Car Bomb.

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