What We Love From Todd Snyder’s Black Friday Sale

Kick off the holiday season in style. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       Shop the Best of Todd Snyder's Black Friday Sale Right Now   Fresh off a collaboration with American icon L.L.Bean, Todd Snyder's wares have never looked better. Yes, there are turtlenecks aplenty, but the brand's also slashing prices on a whole lot of fall-ready fare so good even salty Uncle Brett can't hide his interest. Oh, a raglan sleeve topcoat in a wonderfully autumnal glen plaid? Don't mind if I do! Especially when discounts start at 20% off purchases above $200 and only go up from there (not including select items and, sadly, the aforementioned Bean collection). So starting right now, head on over to the Todd Snyder site armed with the code BlackFridayVIP and then make like it's election day: get in, get out, and walk away with no small sense of civic pride—or at least, like, a few tangible goods no one will dispute the validity of. 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They have strong opinions about single malts versus blends. They own every limited release from their favorite distillery, and they wouldn't dare settle for well whiskey drinks. And so it can be a little intimidating to try to choose a gift to get one of these big whiskey types, especially if you're not an expert yourself. It shouldn't be, not with the holiday madness approaching. Here are the 35 best gifts to get whiskey lovers that will fit into their whiskey-drinking lifestyle with ease. Read More           Amy Coney Barrett's Faith? Off-Limits. Raphael Warnock's? Fair Game.   One of the great strengths of the conservative movement is the capacity of the entire apparatus, from Fox News superheroes on down to the rank-and-file shitposter, to get intergalactically outraged in unison and on-demand. The resentment machine is so fine-tuned at this point that it is capable of kicking into high gear before the outrageous incident has even occurred. We saw this ahead of the nomination hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, when Republicans got pre-outraged about potential Democratic questioning that might probe Barrett's religious faith—including her membership in People of Praise, a Catholic group with rituals and traditions that...fall outside mainstream Church practice. Senator Dianne Feinstein blundered her way through some questioning on this front during hearings on Barrett's appointment to an appeals court in 2017, but there was virtually no Democratic probing here this time around, surely at least in part because the pre-outrage was so intense. This stuff works. Among the early outrage merchants was Senator Marco Rubio, who issued a statement on September 26 that was preemptively indignant. "Sadly, I expect my Democratic colleagues and the radical left to do all they can to assassinate her character and once again make an issue of her faith during her confirmation process," he said. Assassination by radicals! That does sound bad. Questioning someone's fitness for public office based on their religious beliefs is completely unacceptable, you see. It shouldn't factor into how you assess their candidacy at all. Just ask Senator Marco Rubio, who offered some thoughts on Wednesday regarding Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate in one of Georgia's two upcoming Senate runoff elections. Read More           40 Years of Republican Politics Came to a Head at the Wayne County Board of Canvassers   Today's riddle: what do you get when you combine 40 years of public contempt for the idea of politics with 40 years of attaching yourself to the remnants of American apartheid? Answer: The Wayne County Board of Canvassers! Or, two of them, anyway. The prion disease that afflicts the Republican Party has worked its way into every crack and crevice of our experiment in self-government. Late Tuesday afternoon, it manifested itself in the certification process of the election results in Wayne County, Michigan, which includes the city of Detroit. Charles P. Pierce examines the latest out of Michigan. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019