Apr 1, 2009
It's important for me to note that I endorse THIS in no way. THIS only minimizes the serious nature of wine and wine drinking. In fact, THIS purports to be humor, but in reality THIS is just another blow to the industry when the industry needs nothing like THIS. Is THIS really what people want to read? Only a few years ago THIS sort of thing would never fly. THIS would have been condemned. THIS really is harmful to a…
Mar 24, 2009
Almost every day, as the nation’s media scrutinizes the fallout of the economic downturn, we read somewhere that while sales across most industries are down, alcohol sales are up—at least sales of lower priced wines, beers and spirits are up. Almost every piece I read on this subject explains this seeming anomaly the same way they do in the Daily Collegian: “[Our sales] have been increasing since the economic situation started,” said Tim Kramer, manager of Beer Depot, in Ann…
Mar 13, 2009
No, not that kind of scum. This kind of scum:"FRENCH WINE TERRORISTS ATTACK MERCHANTS SELLING FOREIGN PRODUCE" The most telling part of this article on the children that call themselves CRAV is this: " While nobody will own up to being a CRAV member, it is not hard to find sympathizers." It used to be that disobedient civilians understood that the very nature of Civil Disobedience entailed paying the consequences fo your actions. Remember Martin Luther King, the civil rights…
Feb 18, 2009
If you've ever been to the Tadich Grill in San Francisco then you know the feeling of being enveloped in the crushing embrace of old school epicurean culture. You know that feeling of wading into a pool of hedonism soaked humanity of the rough and proper sort. The 21 Club in New York, though probably more compelling to the swinging proper crowd, is also said to exude an old school crush of culinary and imbibiious delights. Mention of these two…
Feb 16, 2009
The process by which rules, laws and regulations concerning alcohol sales and distribution are created is, of course, the very best argument for public financing of campaigns—or at least for drastic reform of campaign financing.This assumes, of course, that legislation ought to be enacted with the goal of serving the broad public interests. It also assumes that laying waste to the democratic process by means of one group of constituents flooding lawmakers with money isn't the best way to communicate…