Happy Fourth of July to all three of you in class today! First off – kudos to you. Seriously, this takes some serious dedication.
I’m not even technically here today. I wrote this yesterday. I wasn’t even planning to take today off, but I looked at the schedule earlier this week and saw I wasn’t on it for today. Imagine my surprise. What a treat!
Anyway, I tossed around the idea of just skipping class altogether, but where would we be right now if our Founding Fathers did that? I assume somewhere in disgusting England, living under a king! Instead, we get to be in America … living under a king!
At least that’s what the wacky Dems are trying to tell us today. What, you haven’t heard? We’ve got another round of ‘No Kings’ protests happening as we speak! Incredible. Anna Paulina’s on it, though. Don’t worry.
Anyway, welcome to a Friday Nightcaps – the one where we hit the lake with NASCAR’s Natalie Decker, and go from there.
What else? I’ve got Anna Paulina, the best of the rest from a LOADED week of #content, and we’ll end the day with Annie Agar. I assume Screencaps will have already taken her this morning, but I don’t care. This holiday THIRST deserves a second look for the late-arriving crowd.
Grab you some milk punch to celebrate this great day (you’ll see), and settle in for a very quick, sparsely-attended Friday ‘Cap!
Anna Paulina doesn’t have time for your crap, Libs
So, I did some digging on this Friday holiday (not really, I did it yesterday afternoon), and discovered that Ben Franklin loved something called “Milk Punch.” True story.
From Smithsonian Magazine:
Benjamin Franklin was especially unabashed about his love of “the cups.” Though Grasse writes that he was careful to advise temperance, he regularly enjoyed wine and what some might argue were early iterations of craft cocktails.
His favorite, according to Alan, was milk punch, a three-ingredient brandy-based sip whose two non-alcoholic components – milk and lemon juice – washed and refined its third.
Turns out, this little drink is also a HIT in NOLA:
Obviously, this one sounds a little more palatable than whatever the hell Ben was sucking down back in the day, but it’s all the same for us patriots. A drink’s a drink a drink. And today, we drink.
And when we’re done drinking, we take a break, say the pledge of allegiance, and then head on out with Anna Paulina Luna to mock the Libs!
