It's not a perfect irony, but it's interesting: It is being reported that researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in San Francisco are moving closer to not only understanding alcohol and nicotine addiction, but toward developing drugs that inhibit the dopamine-induced pleasure our brains experience when alcohol and nicotine hit it. This development would, presumably, lead to severely lessening the addictive impact that alcohol and nicotine might have on a person. Call me insensitive or innappropriate, but…

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I've been blogging now for nearly seven years. And as a blogger and as a  publicist who concerns himself with the wine media, Ive been watching the wine blog evolve. I concern myself with the wine blogosphere's evolution because I need to serve my clients' needs for reaching out to media. But in addition, I feel very connected to the this wine blogosphere. All this observation has led me to conclude that the very idea of a "wine blogosphere" may…