Brews You Can Use V
 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
Eric Scheske
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, José 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, after ridiculously trying to rename 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
Driving the LDS to LSD
Interesting piece at the LA Times about DNA testing striking at the very roots
of Mormonism's creative history
[http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mormon16feb16,0,5561316.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-california]
:Â
> From the time he was a child in Peru,
Pets as Children, Episode 1,980,444
> They already have their own designer clothes, health insurance and therapists
and now more and more American pets are enjoying their own birthday parties as
well.
> A surprising number of pet owners host birthday parties - complete with party
hats, cake and guests for their dogs, cats and birds,