Beer and the Supreme Court
More Americans are putting down Buds and Coors, instead grabbing wine, liquor, Corona and Michelob.
Americans'
changing drinking habits have been taking shape for years, but the
trend accelerated in 2018. Beer shipments from US breweries are down
3.5% so far this year, according to The Beer Institute,
an industry trade group.
The big four US brands — Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coors Light, and Budweiser — have been hit particularly hard.
Do you drink the big four? I don’t. I
drink Corona and Heineken. Of the big four, if I drink one, it’s
Miller Lite. If I drink a Miller, and know ahead,I like to add a V-8 to
it. Corona? I need a lime, of course. But Heineken?
I love to dip Ruffles in Heineken.
Pour a cold one into a mug and sip on it between dipping Ruffles into
it. The Ruffles taste better to me that way (plain Ruffles, by the way)
and the beer too.
(Yes, I’m someone who adds a pinch of salt to a glass of chocolate milk to make it taste even better.)
Okay, Supreme Court. The useless
Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Some are acting like it’s the end of the
world. He’s light-right-wing. I’m not going to lose any sleep. Joseph Kishore (WSWS) reminds:
The
claim that electing Democrats will do anything to alter the trajectory
of bourgeois politics is belied by
history. In 2006, under conditions of widespread hatred of the Bush
administration, the Democrats won major victories in the congressional
elections that gave them control of both houses of Congress. In 2008,
they won the presidency and expanded their congressional
majority.
But
what followed was a continuation and expansion of the reactionary
policies of Bush. The Obama administration
bailed out the banks while ensuring the continued erosion in the living
standards of the working class. His signature domestic policy, the
Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has increased health care costs for
workers. Social inequality soared to levels not
seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Internationally,
the administration continued the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while
launching a new war in Libya
and organizing the CIA-backed civil war in Syria. Its contempt for
democratic principles was embodied in the assertion that the president
has the power to assassinate anyone, including US citizens, without due
process.
The
Democratic Party is a party of lies and cynicism, of millionaires and
billionaires, whose main fear is of
a social explosion in the United States, which would not only
negatively impact stock values, but pose a threat to the entire
capitalist system. As a result, they are incapable of defending any
democratic rights, including the right to an abortion and gay
marriage.
Amen.
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