I f you ever get the chance, search youtube for "The Beer Hunter." It's a BBC series with food/beer lover Michael Jackson (not the international pop sensation). He visits the Schlenkerla brewery, as well as a couple of monasteries. It's a six part series, with each episode in a different country, except for Belgium…

My problem with IPA is not the taste, but the ubiquity. There are so many different types of beer, and yet breweries seem to focus almost entirely on IPAs. IPA may not be bland, but it's ubiquity is making for a bland industry.

Tell 'em, Steve-Dave!

It sounds like its a fascinating documentary. It might be well-suited for a double feature with Louis Theroux's new Scientology movie, which I haven't gotten around to seeing yet.

I grew up near Fairfield, Iowa and have quite a few friends who were raised with TM and went to the Maharishi School of Enlightenment there. They are considerably more normal than the kids I grew up with that were raised evangelical. While I'd prefer that no religious or spiritual beliefs of any kind be forced on…

I see what you did there.

He's very good!

When I lived in the Midwest, I found that there was a pretty wide variety of beers available. So much so, that I didn't realize that IPA was meant to be something special. After drinking a number of IPAs, I still don't see what the appeal is. I mean, they're often good, but not so good as to be the exclusive…

Are East Coast breweries just as obsessed with IPA as the breweries on the West Coast? Pretty much 80% of beers on tap at any brewery is some form of IPA or other around here. It's depressing, since there are so many other different types of good, interesting beers.

Seems to me that as a former drug dealer, he would have direct insight on the problem and that we should value his thoughts. What is it about him that makes you disregard his insight?

I rarely go to Wallingford, only to go to Bottleworks, so I don't know the area well. But I know exactly where that erotic bakery was.

Maybe it's been commented on elsewhere but I haven't bothered to look, and since there's no comment section for Kevin's Bacon, I'll leave it here. Kevin's choice for best bacon prep of using the oven was right, but his method was wrong. The bacon shouldn't be on a rack, that just keeps it from frying in it's own…

I'm pretty sure they can get sponsors for food-based articles fairly easily.

It's unlikely because "violent criminal" is too specific, and not very catchy. Enough shitty right-wingers using it often enough could change the meaning, but that's not likely to occur when they'd be more likely to use something catchier. It's not that I don't think it could happen, it's that I don't think it would…

I suppose that depends on what "act like a thug" means. If one were acting like a member of an Indian gang of murderous thieves, I'd say it's a pretty spot-on term. It's a word that, like many others, has shifted meaning over the years. Recently, it has shifted into pretty unsavory territory, at least in the US.

I think that would be unlikely.

Sure, I've learned to bite my tongue when someone says "impactful" or uses "gift" as a verb, but then those things are pretty minor in comparison to implying the n-word.

You could also just say "violent criminal" and avoid the connotation altogether.

This was from a 1,000-yr flood. FEMA guidelines require protection up to the 100-yr flood to be certified, beyond that and levees become too expensive to be built at all. I don't know what they have for levees in Baton Rouge or if they are certified, but if they were, they would have withstood most natural…

The Kaine team maintained that the senator has not changed his views—he’s always supported Hyde. “He has also made it clear that he is fully committed to Hillary Clinton’s policy agenda, which he understands includes repeal of Hyde,” said Karen Finney, the communications director for Kaine, in an emailed statement.…