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...Time Pit Bar-B-Que in Llano, Texas, pouring bottles of it for a group of ribs-chomping patrons. "Now, that's good. I can't believe that's wine," said a brawny man as he sipped a glass of California sparkling wine in place of his normal beer. MacNeil, author of the best-selling book The Wine Bible and host of a series on wine that debuted in the fall on public television, was delighted. Turning the average American on to wine is her mission in life...
...than the roughly 20% of voters who cited "moral values" as their top concern. Never mind the tizzy of soul searching it has provoked among party officials. (Why do churchgoers hate us? Is Howard Dean too godless to head the Democratic National Committee?) You can't even have a beer with a rank-and-file liberal these days without the conversation degenerating into paranoid fantasies about how evangelical leaders are at this very minute hunkered down in Bush überadviser Karl Rove's office plotting to institute an Old Testament theocracy overseen by Attorney General Jerry Falwell...
Instead of hating FM, as I had anticipated, I ended up loving it. Early closeouts, a fun crowd, food, beer, TV—and all I had to edit was witty, light-hearted remarks, articles about tomatoes and guys who study in elevators...
Dartboard would say, however, that Bush has a mandate in one area—that most oft-cited reason for voting Bush over Kerry: People would just rather have a beer with (the recovering alcoholic) Bush than (the craggy war hero) Kerry. Dartboard for one disagrees, but at least Dartboard can appreciate the logic. If Bush’s mandate extends only so far as taking millions of people out for beer, things could be, at least, far worse...
...floppier than the auburn locks of its star. The campaign’s online profile of Matt alternated serious paragraphs with personality statements about Matt’s hair and middle name. Surprisingly, on a website filled with fun facts, Capp’s council nickname—The Beer Baron—didn’t get much play...