Quick Hits

• A great gallery of pictures from Prohibition and upon repeal. From the Daily Mail, along with some fairly rubbish historical perspective.

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  Someone (maybe you) has been given instructions to argue guns or health care with your family this Thanksgiving. Pour this Cranberry Old-Fashioned on the troubled waters, so you'll all be able to fall asleep in front of the football game in the same room.

• The top ten cheap "bourbons", ranked. Of these, only my father's brand, Early Times, has ever passed my lips.
  "Have you ever had a Boulevardier? It's like a Negroni but with bourbon in the gin's place. It's a great drink, but you have to make it at home lest you find yourself pronouncing "Boulevardier" in public."
  H/T: @JMGIII

• The Washington Post's Tom Sietsema gets it. Only thing is, Tom, it's not just for the holidays!

• Sword-wielding man breaks into a bar and steals nothing but the booze. Samurai wannabes have priorities. Or something.
  Note: This was a burglary, not an armed robbery, so why the toad sticker?