tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post2512097473423279921..comments2023-11-02T07:13:53.064-07:00Comments on Beervana: Beer Is Not PoliticalJeff Alworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-81394877599671723482008-07-11T08:43:00.000-07:002008-07-11T08:43:00.000-07:00Pipes in Native American culture were generally lo...Pipes in Native American culture were generally loaded with tobacco or kinnikinnick, it's worth noting....Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-88761697645785499962008-07-10T21:25:00.000-07:002008-07-10T21:25:00.000-07:00I dunno about the Native Americans… I've heard tal...I dunno about the Native Americans… I've heard tale of a certain type of gathering called a "pow-wow," often heald around a "peace pipe." Seemed to work pretty well for them… until the alcoholics showed up and ruined the party.<BR/><BR/>Different drugs for different thugs…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-22368412935710347852008-07-10T15:23:00.000-07:002008-07-10T15:23:00.000-07:00And isn't that itself a kind of politics??Well, it...<I>And isn't that itself a kind of politics??</I><BR/><BR/>Well, it's true that all human endeavors are fraught with internal politics. But I'm going more for the sense of, to refer to Webster "the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government." From the Greek polītikós, modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state." <BR/><BR/>To argue about the best beers Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-79814234466129046662008-07-10T13:20:00.000-07:002008-07-10T13:20:00.000-07:00Darn it, Jeff. You've penned too quality a piece. ...Darn it, Jeff. You've penned too quality a piece. Hours later, I'm still thinking about it.<BR/><BR/>You said "let us not drag politics to our beer."<BR/><BR/>But in fact . . . haven't you and many others already done precisely that? <BR/><BR/>Your blog, for example, is devoted to a particular KIND of beer: craft beer (as opposed to "corporate" beer, for lack of a better term). <BR/><BR/>In yourAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-23195652893881986962008-07-10T10:03:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:03:00.000-07:00He's sort of arguing that, but it's through a very...He's sort of arguing that, but it's through a very dense filter of conservative political ideology. As a reader of Will's for 15+ years, I am quite familiar with his market filter. For Will, everything looks beautiful through the lens of individuality and free competition. Since I was <I>so</I> familiar with this story, his weird warping of it stood out.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I caught the bogus Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-4091148566911647322008-07-10T10:02:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:02:00.000-07:00Sure, George, roughly half of Pacific Rim Asians h...Sure, George, roughly half of Pacific Rim Asians have difficulty in metabolozing Acetaldehyde, leading to rapid intoxication. It's not like their population is growing robustly or anything....oh, hold on.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281298507815598958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-70406652593648521822008-07-10T09:57:00.000-07:002008-07-10T09:57:00.000-07:00Well, there's another way to look at it: Will is a...Well, there's another way to look at it: <BR/><BR/>Will is arguing, albeit indirectly, that alcohol has been a friend to humans for millennia, and hey, we survived daily consumption of the stuff. <BR/><BR/>In doing so, he's demolishing the illogical, irrational neo-prohibitionist argument that alcohol is evil, that it's "bad" for us, that pregnant women ought not drink, etc.<BR/><BR/>And hey, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com