FUNDAMENTALLY STRONG COCKTAILS

The Old Fashioned Bail-Out 

Serves one (you), right.

In a double old-fashioned glass, place a thick slice of blood orange (try to keep your hands clean; if you can squeeze blood from a turnip then use that instead), a large piece of lemon peel, and a teaspoonful of sugar. Add three dashes Angostura bitters and mix with a muddler until everything is completely muddled.

Toss in a pony of Cointreau and two jiggers of Old Overholt rye whiskey.  Shake with ice, or with trepidation, whichever is most handy, and strain into a cocktail glass. Add several ounces chilled champagne; the $700,000,000,000.00 Dom Paulson variety if you can borrow some, although the cheap stuff will do. The champagne will have bubbles, but at least they are small and cause no harm when they burst. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, for a bit of forced gaiety.

Drink it while you can, or you may have to share it.

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The Blackberry n' Soda 

Because you need all the distractions you can get when you don't know what to do about the economy, so why not make something up, something technological and cool that you invented. 

Fill glass with ice, 1/4-1/3 blackberry vodka, finish with club soda and maybe a squeeze of something naturally sour.

The Risky Manhattan

You trusted the market guys (its a bunch of dudes who want bigger jets!!), you deregulated them, they took us (not you) to the bank. Thanks "my friend".

Commonly used whiskeys include rye (the traditional choice), Canadian, bourbon and Tennessee. Proportions of whiskey to vermouth vary, from a very sweet 1:1 ratio to a much less sweet 4:1 ratio. Should be more like 400:1 salary for the CEO, invest heavily in him, they know how to regulate themselves. 

Stir with ice, strain into a glass and add a dash of bitter(s) reality. No matter how things go, leave a sweet sweet cherry at the bottom so even when the glass is empty for the rest of us, the CEO gets a nice sweet surprise on the way out. 

Black Russian 

Oil dependence and high gas prices are a big deal, but when you add a dash of fear concerning our old Cold war comrades... what economy? 

Begins with a glass full of ice, add  2/3 Russian Vodka, 1/3 Coffee liquor such as Kahlua. If you are broke like the US Treasury, you could just do vodka and cola, poor mans Black Russian. 

Wa-Mu Martini 

Extra dry like their Reserves, extra dirty like their executives likely were. 

5:1 Ration of Gin or Vodka to Dry Vermouth, mix with ice and strain into a glass and get ready for some straight up reality, garnish with olives and pour some juice in there for some dirt. 

Make up your own "Fundamentally Strong" cocktails and let us know, we will ad to the list!