Researchers Javier Morales, Luis Apátiga and Victor Castaño at the National Autonomous University of Mexico are conducting studies as to whether substances like acetone and ethanol can be transformed into diamonds. They happened to discover that 80 proof tequila...

As we mentioned earlier, we like America Day or whatever because it allows us to give the impression that we’re drinking in either celebration or commiseration and not because we have a terrible disease. As such, we’d like to...

The New York Times has put together a handy, step-by-step guide aimed at helping you celebrate / survive this election night. We think it’s a lovely way of excusing our rampant alcoholism as political involvement. In fact, we like...

The good people at Caribaya Rums sent us a little tip to our inbox, “Yo, you might want to drink less. We’re growing concerned.” Haha, kidding! They just wanted to let us know that they think Sarah Palin’s snowmobile...

Palin Syrah, a Chilean wine, has been getting all the wrong sorts of publicity as potential buyers would rather not drink something that reminds them of pigs, pitbulls, or Jesus-mandated pipeline driller Sarah Palin: Palin Syrah — pronounced Pay-LEEN...

Fernet-Branca, an Italian amaro popular in Argentina, has unveiled a series of ads across New York City advising Eurotrash-Guanabees to “Embrace the Bitter.” Because nothing perks up a Coca-Cola quite like the gastronomical equivalent of having someone hold your...

A new study shows that Hispanic high schoolers are shooting up, getting drunk, having sex and offing themselves at a higher rate than their Black or White classmates. Because, again, Hispanics cannot be Black, White or Asian: The study...

A new anti-drinking campaign posted in the London Underground warns women that “binge-drinking will destroy their looks for good.” The campaign poster, a product of London’s Drug and Alcohol Service, shows a (wo?)man hot mess with ugly skin and...

Big news for lactating alcoholics! A new product called “Milkscreen” is making it easy to test the amount of alcohol found in breast milk. No more midnight gin & tetas, according to the official website: Why use milkscreen? Because...

Video: Museum of the American Cocktail - 2006 Anthem Clip According to our new favorite Museum of the American Cocktail [Ed. Note: Suck it, MoMA!] today is the last day of “World Cocktail Week”, a project established to celebrate the...

Psychotic cross-dressing drunk and sometime basketball player Dennis Rodman has been arrested in California (not Florida!) on suspicions of domestic abuse. Rodman’s lawyer tells TMZ, lyingly: Rodman’s manager Darren Prince tells TMZ, “Last night Dennis and his girlfriend had...

What’s more delicious than waking up with that horrible tequila-soaked ass taste in your mouth? Why, waking up with that horrible tequila-soaked ass taste and knowing you were part of a stupid marketing scheme! Behold! Frida Kahlo Tequila: “Made...

Absinthe is making a come-back for the seventy-third time, it seems. We have no idea why, as it tastes like licorice left out in the rain, and won’t have any wormwood anyway. Anyway, here’s how to drink it, if...

You might remember we posted a little item about Hillary Clinton doing shots and writhing naked on pool tables or whatever, but now there’s video, too. We take issue with anyone who says that Hillary is doing this to...

Like any good alcoholic in denial, actress Kate Bosworth suggested she and 21 co-star Jim Sturgess have a few drinks to “loosen up” before their sex scene. And then her freaky-pretty eyes got all bleary and her brain got...

The only thing we like more than beer is a good ol’ marketing gimmick, so we were super excited to learn that Anheuser-Busch is launching Bud Light Lime, lime-flavored beer for those of us who prefer chemicals to the...

Tijuana often gets a bad rep. People think its little more than a place to buy cheap Vicodin and catch a horrific disease, but it’s so much more than that. There’s, like, culture and tradition. And Vicodin. So meet...

Christmas is right around the corner and we’ve found that nothing makes our families more tolerable around the Noche Buena dinner table than getting totally annihilated right before they show up. The New York Post has three suggestions for...

“Mexican Robin Hood,” Jesus Malverde, has the posthumous honor of having his very own beer. Why don’t you have your own beer, you ask? Because you’re not a thief, pal, nor does anyone except maybe your landlord consider you...

Nothing treats a Monday hangover quite like drinking even more. The New York Times understands this, and they’ve got our backs once again by telling us about a nice place to throw back a couple dozen glasses of Calimocho...

The New York Times’ “Dining & Wine” section features a recipe for a drink they call “Spanish Harlem.” Sounds positively other wordly. What’s in it?: 3 ounces bourbon, preferably “Maker’s Mark” Three dashes “Angostura” bitters 1 ounce “Pedro Ximinez”...

According to a study, Mexican Americans are more likely to become heavy drinkers and have alcohol-related health problems because of a particular haplotype (cluster of genetic stuff), labeled “H6.” Wait, give us a second to adjust this Moonshine IV...

Researchers in Honduras have discovered residue from a chemical compound that comes exclusively from cacao in pottery vessels dating back to 1100 BC - a residue that suggests chocolate might have originally been consumed by the Aztecs as a...

New scandalastic photos have surfaced of Prince Harry’s vacation in Namibia, where he’s shown snorting vodka, nipple licking his buddies, and hanging wine glasses from his man titties. [Ed. Note: Snorting vodka is this year’s Mojito, y’all]. The best...

A herd of eggheads has gathered in New York over the weekend for the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting 2007, whose most intriguing presentation so far is a study showing that Latinos who’ve “replaced their traditional cultural beliefs with...