I like a Tom Collins, but replace gin with whiskey. Pretty good. Scotch neat. Martini perfect that with equal parts sweet and dry Vermouth and an olive. Bloody mary spicy. I can't think of what they are called but they are little white stones you put in the freezer to use in place of ice. So melted ice don't water down the drink.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe