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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use VI

Brews you can use, and an historical miniature. Plus, I'd never heard of the drink, so I'm guessing others will find it novel, too:Â > The Sazerac, purportedly America's first cocktail, is the emblematic drink of New Orleans. As originally made in the

Helping Perverts

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Brews You Can Use V

Â Lighten up, ladies. It's a joke. I'm not even a big fan of Moosehead. Now I'm gonna have to go buy a case: > After complaints from a feminist group and incensed customers, New Brunswick's Moosehead Breweries has pulled an ad

Brews You Can Use IV

> Drunk drivers in Taiwan can now choose their penalty: Pay a fine or play mahjong with the elderly. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MAHJONG_PENALTY?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-16-19-26-07] Sounds pretty cool. But can you

Brews You Can Use III

> A rowdy Stanford University mascot was fired after being discovered drunk during a basketball game, university officials said. > Fifth-year senior Erin Lashnits, who dresses as a tree for the university's irreverent band, was stripped of her duties last week after her blood-alcohol level was

Brews You Can Use II

> Taking inspiration from Monty Python and the success of last year's "Big Ad" commercial, Australian brewer Lion Nathan has put together a $1 million advertisement that should please the beer gods. > The ad for Tooheys New depicts teams of people using huge catapults to

Brews You Can Use

> America's craft brewers sold 9% [more]Â beer in 2005 than in 2004, making craft beer the fastest growing segment of the United States beverage alcohol industry for the second consecutive year, according to the Brewers Association in Colorado. . . . > The craft beer segment includes more than

Caligula?

> The Spanish Prime Minister, JosÃ© Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been compared to the Roman Emperor Caligula by a leading Catholic Bishop over Spain's legalisation of same-sex marriage. > In a vicious personal attack on the Prime Minister, Bishop Antonio Algora told Spanish newspapers, "If Zapatero

Danish Pastries

We can snicker too much, afterÂ ridiculously trying to renameÂ fries "freedom fries":Â > Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."Bakeries across the capital were

Ghetto Blues

John McWhorter is interviewed in U.S. News & World Report about the ghetto blues [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060220/20qa.htm]. Good stuff. Best excerpt: > The people who think that black poverty and its manifestations are all about racism would be very surprised if they