Cold Shots ...

... is one of the colloquial names for small short cans of stronger (6.0% alcohol) beer brewed in Canada.

Here are a couple of quick cold shots .. two brief quotes from the insightful and sobering Contemplations from the Cheap Beer Zone , in which Joe Bageant shakes his head in slow bemusement at the sheer madness of watching ourselves eat ourselves up, towards a media-driven death of consciousness.

"And our inaction bellows at the world, no matter how many Internet chat friends share our own personal shame and indignation."