Michael Davis provided it.
Background: Michael still hasn't gotten over the fact that I can drink him under the table. I'll never forget those evenings at the top of the Hyatt watching him slowly drown ... LIKE A GIRL.
(Witnesses tell me that wasn't at the Hyatt. On the off-chance they're more right than I am, though I doubt it, slight edit.)
Meanwhile, there are other places to drink in town, which matters at the moment due to other things going on in the state and that's all I'm gonna say about that because I generally don't like talking about day job stuff on the blog even though I drive friends up the wall with way too much day job-related chatter when we get together and also in far too many emails which means sometimes they go OMG STFU and so I allow them to lower the hammer for a little bit.
Then I start right back up again because you know what? The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the bedrock of this nation. For me, the First Amendment *particularly* matters - it's my Black Helicopter People issue. Fuck with those and you destroy the country. Civil rights and civil liberties are not static concepts, and I think our nation's Founders knew what they were doing when they constructed a guiding documents flexible enough to account for the Future they believed in but could not specifically account for. They are living, breathing documents. They are not fossils. Here's another one.
When it comes to the Marriage Equality and so many other fights, it once again comes down to a simple truth. Have whatever faith you want. Just keep the tenants of your faith the fuck out of my public policy. But these people have a problem with that. They do not believe in - to borrow a phrase from another religious tradition - so you harm none, do what you will.
Anyways. I actually have two official drinking HQs, neither of them hotels. Most of the hotel bars suck.
