So the world is going to hell. The Democrats are getting crushed in special elections, Pennsylvania Republicans are seeking to game the system to guarantee Rick Perry's election in 2012, Israel's relations with its neighbors are increasingly fractured. But hey, at least it is cooling...
alcohol
It seems that Rhode Island is losing access to several excellent beers: Earlier this year, three major craft brewers - Avery, Dogfish Head, and Great Divide - announced that they.
I don't even know if Jimmy Carter drinks alcohol, but this Tom Philpott piece on the struggles of the beer conglomerates to keep control over the market suggests that no.
I can't say that I got quite as annoyed as Yglesias (or Farley for that matter) about this piece of drink snobbery that listed drinks one should never order in public. This is mostly my own snobbery because who really cares what someone orders if...
This is just outrageous: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed legislation that officially classifies beer as alcohol in Russia. The new law will allow controls on the sale of beer.
Rob's post inspired me to look up the WHO report on drinking in the USA, and to do some quick calculations. According to this data, American adults (defined as people.
We can all rest easy now, because in the Cricket, normal business has resumed. An analysis of player performance through the second test at Adelaide can be found here. Dated, obviously, as Mitchell Johnson no longer rates as "atrocious" following Friday's haul, so perhaps he...
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law..
It's not suprising how the interests line up, but here's a good account of why New York's irrational policy of banning wine sales in grocery stores remains in place.
Following up on Dave's observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking:(1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak correlations from observational studies as definitive proof of their pet hypothesis, and then turn around and come...
The New York Times reports that "some scientists" dispute the link between moderate alcohol consumption and better health on a number of measures. The key is the causality question, of course:"No.