Inspection- Of Beer, Wine and Society
by Ken Carman I've been pouring through Denny Conn's book on experimental brewing. We started homebrewing in 1979. Books on homebrewing these days are light years beyond what they used…
The Supremes and Marriage Equality: Alito and Scalia, Have You No Sense of Decency Sirs?
In the 1940s and 1950s, countless people in the US were being bullied and brutalized by the anti-communist scare tactics and character assassinations of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The end of…
USDA on board with shipping U.S. chickens to China for processing, then re-entry to States for human consumption
Chinese chicken" will soon have a whole new meaning, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and…
Fiorina Has High Name Recognition Among Thousands She Fired
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) --- One day after the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, a new poll shows that she enjoys…
All or Nothing Liberals, Nixon, and Déjà vu All Over Again
Bob Dylan has littered my consciousness with damn near as many quotes as I got from studying Shakespeare. One Dylan bon mot that often comes up because it's so often…