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The Heady Topper of the Antipodes
What to look for on your next trip to Sydney.Heady Topper is a beer from Vermont with three distinctive attributes. It is extremely good; it comes in large-sized cans; and it is available only in a...
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America Already Becoming Great Again: Nashville Airport Edition
If you could read the other side of this red marquee, you’d see it saying “Craft Beer on the Fly”Here’s something I hadn’t come across before: Not simply good local craft beer inside an airport, which...
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Could the Latest Trump Stories Be Different From the Rest?
Donald Trump in 1995 with then-wife Marla Maples and daughter Tiffany, about whose potential future beauty Trump was talking at the time. (Jeff Christensen / Reuters)The latest stories I’m talking...
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Solar-Power Plane Crosses the Pacific, and Other News From the Skies
The solar-powered Solar Impulse over San Francisco last month. (Solar Impulse)As a break from political drear, a festival of news from the skies.1) Good news: Solar Impulse. Last year the completely...
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Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm: Why Does This Ring a Bell?
AP website, May 18, 2016Previously in the Hmmmm series, please see this, this, this, this, and this. The theme of the poll reported in today’s AP story is summed up thus:Americans … are strikingly...
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It's National Craft Beer Week!
CraftBeer.comI had somehow missed the fact that we are already four days into American Craft Beer Week! Fortunately it runs all the way through Sunday evening. In its honor, these updates:1) Best Beer...
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Elizabeth Warren on the Second Gilded Age
Pro-suffrage cartoon by Hy Mayer in Puck, in 1915. That was during the Progressive wave that followed the original Gilded Age. (Wikimedia)This afternoon at the annual conference of New America, in...
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If You're Interested in Beer, and Web-Page Layout
Continuing the observation of American Craft Beer Week, this somehow seems appropriate:From HTML Beer GlassesIf you get the joke, you get the joke. I have ordered some, here!Meanwhile, if you are...
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Welcome Navy Fallows!
Navy Bennett Fallows, May 19, 2016.And then there were four! Please welcome young Navy Bennett Fallows, who was born late last night, May 19, in San Francisco. You see her above, freshly swaddled, not...
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RIP Alan Young, Horse-Whisperer to Mister Ed
Alan Young, the owner/horse-whisperer of the talking horse Mr. Ed in the Sixties sit-com of the same name, has died at age 96. As a sign how cheesy TV-production values were in its Boomer Era “golden...
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The Age of Trump: Graham, Madison, and Hart Weigh In
"The Signing of the Constitution of the United States," by Howard Chandler Christy (Wikimedia)Over the weekend a Washington Post op-ed titled “We Must Weed Out Ignorant Voters from the Electorate” got...
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The Daily Trump, a Time Capsule Series
Let’s get going! (Carlo Allegri / Reuters)People will wonder about America in our time. It can be engrossing to look back on dramatic, high-stakes periods in which people were not yet sure where things...
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Rob Schmitz, on the ‘Street of Eternal Happiness’
Last night, at the Atlantic’s offices in Washington, I had a chance to interview my friend Rob Schmitz, longtime Marketplace correspondent based in Shanghai, about his new book Street of Eternal...
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Trump Time Capsule #4: Vince Foster, or Birtherism Redux
Vince Foster (Reuters)As a reminder, for time-capsule purposes this is an ongoing chronicle of the things Donald Trump says and does that no real president could, should, or would say or do.Daily Trump...
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When Did Citrus-Flavored IPA Become Its Own Category?
I don’t know when it happened, but I’m actually glad that it did. Within the past ten days, four different citrus-infused IPAs, from four well-regarded breweries, have made their way into my awareness....
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Nominee as Tabula Rasa: ‘Gang of Eight? Never Heard of It!’
As a reminder, these dispatches are meant as a chronicle for time-capsule purposes, recorded at a time when no one can be sure that Donald Trump won’t become the 45th President of the United States....
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The Age of Trump: Graham, Madison, and Hart Weigh In
"The Signing of the Constitution of the United States," by Howard Chandler Christy (Wikimedia)Over the weekend a Washington Post op-ed titled “We Must Weed Out Ignorant Voters from the Electorate” got...
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‘Already and Not Yet’: Is America Becoming Great Again?
From Clarion: A Journal of Spirituality and JusticeAn ongoing theme in this space, most recently in discussion of citrus-flavored IPAs, is that America is “already becoming great again.”Reader Monte...
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Between Beer Greatness, and Orangina: The Citrus-IPA Era Walks a Fine Line
Grapefruit Sculpin, from Ballast Point: a carton of cansIn the previous post I mentioned that the new-to-me wave of citrus-flavored IPAs, which I’d looked on askance on the assumption that they were...
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Mechanics of Self-Government: Aussies Point the Way
Incumbent Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull at left, from the Liberal party (the conservatives, in U.S. terms), and his opponent Bill Shorten, Labour party leader, at a debate this month...
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