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Grappling with Grapes My grape vines arrived yesterday. I opened the box and read the instructions: "After the plants are set, select the largest, strongest cane and cut it back so that two nodes or buds remain. Cut off all other canes." Great. What's a "

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Neo-Prohibitionism in Different Shapes Mormon morality run amok? Big Brother Syndrome? Stupidity? Not sure, but I've never heard of anything like it before: Utah bar owners must run "an electronic scanner on driver licenses of anyone who looks 35 years old or younger. The penalty for failing

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Dinner Beers My father waged a thirty-year battle in favor of beer. When he moved to our micropolitan area, it was understood that classy people didn't drink beer. Everyone drank hard liquor. That was 1969. But he stuck to his guns, drinking water if they didn't

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I Need a Drink The baseball season is only four days old, and I'm already burned out. My son's appearance at the plate last night would've driven me to a big bottle, but I was still vomiting from the spectacle. You ever work on

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Only a Few Are Chosen A loyal TDE reader and friend from my Gilbert Magazine days sent along the most-interesting beer story of the young year: Dark Lord beer. Ratebeer.com says it's the best beer in the world. It's "brewed with hundreds of pounds

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Wikidrunk By chance, I started cruising around Wikipedia yesterday. It has some great drinking references. There is, for instance, this post [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine] about Buckfast Tonic Wine. I'd never heard of the stuff, but I guess it's (i) brewed by

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America's Drunkest Cities I was in Fresno last year. I didn't appreciate that I was amidst drunken greatness: "Fresno was near the top in every measure of dangerous drinking, including the body count caused by booze-fueled car crashes (Fatality Analysis Reporting System), the number of

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Bones and Beer One of my favorite GKC points: "If a man drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, he is trying to obtain something exceptional, something he does not expect every hour of the day, something which, unless he is a little insane, he will not try to

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Western Civ 101 I'm a drinker, and I'm a (somewhat lame) student of history (B.A., University of Michigan, 1988). So I guess it's no surprise that I found this interesting: How Alcohol Changed the World [http://humor.gunaxin.com/how-alcohol-changed-the-world/43758]. I think

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Salvador, My Friend! I've always found Salvador Dali a little too freaky for my tastes. Oberon, however, is perfect for my tastes (though too many Oberons make me feel a little Dali). In any event, I'm looking forward to seeing Dali grace my backyard this summer: