The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Million Miles to Go Edition
Steve reached 2 million lifetime miles on United Airlines this week, which meant party hats and free drinks on his flight to Washington (yet still no invitation to join Global Services), but despite all that he botched the YouTube livestream of this episode, such that the 12 subscribers who tried to tune in live saw only Steve, could neither see nor hear John Yoo (this week’s hosts) or Lucretia. So we’ll try to get it fixed, hopefully before Steve reaches the 3 million mile mark in a month or two.
You can guess the topics: The Comey indictment (two-and-a-half thumbs up), the prospects for the upcoming government shutdown where, for once, Republicans have all the high cards, and then some extended discussion of Steve’s article on how to apply Max Weber’s famously dense lecture “Politics as a Vocation” to the deteriorating political atmosphere that contributed to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. More to come on that, including how Steve’s threat to grind up some Thomas Aquinas to put in John’s tea to see if it has any effect on him.
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