At 7PM this evening, Governor Rick Snyder will be delivering the 2013 State of the State address laying out his vision for 2013. If you’re like me, you’re very excited to hear what is going to happen; hoping all the while that we won’t have to wait until the last few weeks of the year for all of it to happen.

Since there are drinking games for all sorts of nonsense (and I couldn’t find a drinking game for the State of the State address), it only seems fitting to have one for tonight’s festivities.

Because of the breadth of topics, I am proposing there be both beer and hard liquor components to the game. One might think that because we live in the State of Michigan and have many craft beers to choose from, that I am recommending a local brew. To the contrary, I think it is only fitting that one should consider drinking a brew that is not made in a union shop or in a place where there are safety practices in place.

In honor of Governor Snyder’s time running Gateway Computers into the ground, I am selecting a beer from China. Tsingtao seems like the obvious choice because you get it just about anywhere, but I have decided to buck the norm and have selected Harbin mostly because it’s watered down, bland, and owned by a corporate conglomerate — sort of like Michigan right now.

As far as the hard liquor component goes, I am going to drink whatever is the cheapest because cheap liquor might convince people who drink in Indiana to consider drinking in Michigan.

TAKE A SIP OF A HARBIN EVERY TIME GOVERNOR SNYDER SAYS:

Re-invent Michigan
Jobs
Detroit
Bridge
Infrastructure
Personal Property Tax
Job-training
Vehicle registration fees
Accomplished a lot
Environment for success
Pathways to potential
EAA (Education Achievement Authority)

CHUG A HARBIN EVERY TIME GOVERNOR SNYDER SAYS:

Bipartisanship
Gun control
Right-to-work
Unemployment rate
Tax breaks
Revitalize cities
Detroit lighting authority
Placemaking
Balance sheet
Regulatory reform

TAKE A SHOT EVERY TIME GOVERNOR SNYDER SAYS:

He doesn’t use notes
Pure Michigan
RTA
Vitual cities
Fired up

TAKE TWO SHOTS EVERY TIME GOVERNOR SNYDER:

Acknowledges your State Representative of State Senator
Shoots a gray wolf