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Dentist David Kennedy on Fluoride

This is an interview I conducted with David C. Kennedy, DDS, and former head of the... more

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Travel Bug Robert - Bruges Half Moon Brewery

In this Travel Bug Robert episode, Robert travels to Bruges' Half Moon Brewery.... more

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Ten Reasons We All Love PBR

Oh PBR, how I love thee, let me count the ways:

1) Price: You are ridiculously cheap. I can buy thirty 12oz cans of you for about $15 in Pennsylvania. In Wisconsin I’m pretty sure I can get the same amount for one foodstamp.

2) Taste: You actually have an identifiable taste. You don’t taste like carbonated water; I can tell you are beer. Beer is good.

3) You are from Milwaukee: I am also from Milwaukee, but I am not a refreshing adult beverage. You are.

4) A/C for my Mouth: As much as I love hoppy IPA’s on hot days, they usually don’t go well with doing weekend chores because they have such a high ABV percentage, which then leads to unintentional naps and/or BIADD (Booze Induced Attention Deficit Disorder).

5) No Gimmicks: You don’t feel the need to implement any kind of cold-notification technology into your packaging. I know you’re cold because I have a sense of touch, and luckily, since your beer actually does taste like beer, you don’t need to be ice cold to avoid a gag reflex.

6) Patriotism: You are owned, grown, brewed, and packaged by Americans. Also your colors are red, white, and blue, which is code for AMERICA.

7) Funk: Either through your support of art festivals or some other hipster-generated underground marketing campaign thing, almost all of the events you sponsor tend to be a hip funky time that has cool music and interesting activities.

8) Variety: I can buy you in 12oz cans, 12oz bottles, 40oz bottles, 16oz cans, kegs, and sometimes even on tap at a few local watering holes.

9) Boats: Captain Pabst sold his shipping company to buy into his father-in-law’s brewery, after which he changed the name to his own and charted a course for Awesometown, USA.

10) Ribbons: Most people think the Blue Ribbon (or BR) comes from the award you may or may not have won way back before the internets and modern medicine, but the truth is that you guys used to literally tie a blue silk ribbon around each bottle of beer. If only breweries nowadays had that kind of style, we could really take a bite out of our unemployment problem.

http://drinkphilly.com/index.php/drinks/artprofile/130Oh PBR, how I love thee, let me count the ways: 1) Price: You are ridiculously... more

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Shark Week Drinking Game

Do yourself a favor and just call off work this week now. Hosted by the Late... more

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Repeal the Drinking Age

Somehow, and no one seems to even imagine how, this country managed to survive and thrive before 1984 without a national minimum drinking age. Before that, the drinking question was left to the states.

In the 19th century, and looking back even before — prepare yourself to imagine horrific anarchistic nightmares — there were no drinking laws anywhere, so far as anyone can tell. The regulation of drinking and age was left to society, which is to say families, churches, and communities with varying sensibilities who regulated such things with varying degrees of intensity. Probably some kids drank themselves silly — and we all know that this doesn't happen now (wink, wink) — but many others learned to drink responsibly from an early age, even drinking bourbon for breakfast.

Really, it is only because we are somehow used to it that we accept the complete absurdity of a national law that prohibits the sale of beer, wine, and liquor to anyone under the age of 21. This is a restriction unknown in the developed world. Most countries set 18 as the limit, and countries like Germany and Austria allow 16-year-olds to buy wine and beer. In the home of the brave, the police are busting up teen parties, shutting down bars, hectoring restaurants, fining convenience stores, and otherwise bullying people into clean living. We read the news and think: crazy kids, they shouldn't be doing this.

And yet every day, young people are finding ways around these preposterous restrictions that are hardly ever questioned, imbibing with their booze a disdain for the law and a creative spirit of criminality, along with a disposition to binge drink when their legal workarounds succeed.

On college campuses, the industry of the fake ID thrives as never before. It seems nearly true that almost every student believes himself or herself in need of getting one. Do the restaurants and bars know this? Of course they do. They have every interest in having these fake IDs look as real as possible to give themselves some degree of legal immunity if someone gets caught. The whole thing is a gigantic fakeroo, a mass exercise in open but unspoken hypocrisy, and everyone knows it.

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Outrageous News Stories, Part 2

The Perspectives Panel discuss a recent outrageous lawsuit filed against Anheuser... more

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Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water

Do you drink tap water? What about bottled water? Then you might want to read this.

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Bruce Willis teams up with Sobieski Vodka

Only this time instead of bringing us classics such as "Bruno's Bop" or... more

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GLH3: A Drinking Club with a Running Problem

A documentary about the local Hash House Harrier group in the Greater Lansing area.

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Man Set on Fire After Losing Drinking Bet

A 47-year-old man's friends set his prosthetic leg on fire after he lost a... more

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Repeal The Drinking Age

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Drinking while pregnant can affect fertility of unborn fetus

In a study of almost 350 young men, sperm levels were a third lower in those whose... more

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Congress Mulling In-Car Alcohol Detectors

he New York Times reports that the U.S. Congress is considering a six-fold increase in... more

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iShot Machine iPhone App

Ever been out at a bar with friends, ready to do a shot, and no one can decide which... more

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Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification”

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, “You don’t ever... more

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Springtime in Athens Ohio

A look at fest season in Athens Ohio. Produced as a part of MDIA 486 at Ohio... more

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New Drinking Game: Vodka 'Eyeballing'

Shooting vodka not a quick enough path to drunkenness for you? Try shooting it through... more

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Boost Voter Turnout... with Beer?

The Czech Republic is a country of 10.5 million people with the largest beer... more

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24 hour drinking laws could be scrapped

From the Telegraph article, Theresa May blames the 2003 Licensing Act for the current... more

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Grab a $20 Backwash Shot While They're Hott

The rapidly growing eatery -- home to the most tatted among us -- has developed... more

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