Quicks Hits and Brews

Ghostly stuff: A yacht has been found off Australia with its engine running and a table laid for dinner - but no sign of life.
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A Dutch escort service has set up a whore line for virgin customers. I loved this line: "[M]ost of them work in the IT sector."
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I hope it's ready by the time my oldest turns 16: "Tata Motors is developing a car it aims to sell for about $2,500--the cheapest, by far, ever made."
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This girl was at Columbine and Virginia Tech when the killings occurred. I feel bad for her. The first time I was a victim of a crime (car broken into when I lived in South Bend, Indiana), my radar for danger went up three-fold: started locking my doors and doublechecking them, considered buying a gun, etc. I can't imagine what subtle forces are acting on this girl's mind.

Brews You Can Use

Good lawsuit. A broken beer is worth at least $200K:

A man injured by his beer bottle after tripping out of an Alton tavern last year is seeking more than $200,000 for neck, face and chest injuries. . . .

He claims that as he was leaving the premises at 2505 State St. on April 8, 2006, he tripped over a toejam at the exit, causing him to fall onto and fracture the beer bottle he was carrying. He was exiting the tavern with a bottle of beer to consume on the parking lot area, the complaint states.

Probably not related:

A woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test - nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record.

I'll be honest: I loathe the 21-year-old drinking age. Always have, always will. I'm not bitter about it. By the time I was 19, I had a foolproof set of I.D.s (drivers license, library card, college i.d. card), so it didn't affect me much. But it's simply hypocritical (the fundamental observation: old enough to die in war but not to order a beer, is accurate). I also think it leads to unhealthy forms of drinking among the young. At least one other guy agrees. Excerpt:

[T]he drinking age of 21 has moved drinking to settings away from parental instruction and supervision. Among college students, drinking has gone off campus and underground, increasing risks while decreasing institutions abilities to manage the risks.

I've always thought a good age would be 19. That way, you keep it out of the high schools. (Reminds me of an old joke: "Did you hear they're raising the drinking age to 28 in Mississippi?" "No, why?" "They want to keep it out of the schools.")
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The weather here in Michigan is turning gorgeous. Good outdoor drinkin' weather: warm, but not hot, and the mosquitoes aren't out in force.