Monthly Archives: April 2010

There are a lot of Hispanics in Arizona: 30% of the population according to the latest census, which is double the rate for the country as a whole. Thats almost two million people, legally in the country, who will be subject to questioning any time a police officer gets the urge. All the officer has [...]

One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold’s care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then [...]

I’ve been writing a lot of blog posts lately. I just haven’t been posting many of them. Why? Because haven’t been completing many of them. I’ve been coming up with a lot of ideas, but they all seem to be incomplete. I’ll get halfway through a post (or more) and then realize that I don’t [...]

Lunch-only beer policy prompts Carlsberg strike – Yahoo! News. The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company’s new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites. I, for [...]

In short, if a beer is not protected by the right kind of glass, it quickly becomes “light-struck”, or in the beer biz what we call “skunked”. Beer, as it turns out, is very sensitive to light. Or, more accurately, the hops in beer are sensitive to light. Here is what happens. Hops contain something [...]