Enjoy? Maybe not a requirement, but knowing what you are talking about is. Or at least it should be. Unless you want to make a fool of yourself, that is. For instance: “cowboy drink”. Do you even know where whiskey where first distilled?!? Or, better yet: “unmistakable smokey flavor”. Sure, because everybody knows…

Oh, the irony! Just last Friday you posted a clip from Kurt Vonnegut explaining the “emotional shape of creative stories” (http://lifehacker.com/watch-kurt-von…) and now this?!? As if we needed any more paint-by-numbers literature...

Kristin:

It took me all of 5 minutes to find http://europa.eu/about-eu/count… and learn that the only “prosperous Scandinavian country” not part of the EU is Norway, but hey! never let facts get in the way of an argument! ;-)