All American Cocktails

What better way to celebrate American Independence than getting hammered with America's greatest invention, the cocktail?  OK, I have no idea if the cocktail was invented in America, but it was certainly perfected here during prohibition when bartenders had to add mixers to hide the horrible taste of the hootch.  What cocktail do I recommend today?  The one that honors America's greatest city, the Manhattan, made with American Rye whiskey.  Check out this article by Tony Sachs:

"With July 4th at hand, it's time to pay tribute to those uniquely American inventions that have made this country great. Baseball. Jazz. Blue jeans. Match Game '76. Loaded baked potatoes. Tina Louise. And perhaps the greatest of all -- rye whiskey."

Read the rest here.  Anyone who can tie together Match Game '76, Tina Louise and cocktails is my kind of guy.  Don't know how to make a Manhattan?  Let that great American Rachel Maddow show you:

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Gay Like Me

A while back, I re-connected on Facebook with a high school classmate.  He and I were pretty good friends back then, but lost touch when we went to different colleges.  I was pretty sure he was gay like me, although we certainly never talked about it or acted on it, unless you call dancing to Manilow in his bedroom "acting on it."  He was absolutely obsessed with Manilow and Cher and was crushed when Sonny and Cher got divorced.  See what I mean by gay like me?

According to his Facebook page, he's married with kids and lives in South Carolina.  He lists "spending time with family" as his favorite activity and posts about all the wholesome family time he spends with his wife and kids.  Wife, wife, wife, kids, kids, kids.  Could a boy who kept a scrapbook on Cher's divorce possibly grow up to be heterosexual? 

Then, the other day this 50ish southern straight dude joined a Facebook fan page for...

wait for it...

wait for it...

Tina Louise.