commentary
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Naked Wines And The Cult Of “Fake News”
One of the worst aspects of the current state of political “discourse” in the USA is the penchant of leaders in our government towards vocalizing complete and total falsehoods, whenever and however it furthers their individual and/or party agendas, with seemingly little consequence for their…
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Scores Still Kinda Suck – Now With More Better Science?
There’s been a good bit of discussion lately on the Global Interwebs over a recent blog post by the wine-data-focused David Morrison (to which I was alerted by intrepid friend-of-1WD Bob Henry). In that post, Morrison puts the scores of two of Wine Spectator’s then-critics-both-named-James,…
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Thoughts On Instant Pot “Wine”
A few of you intrepid 1WD readers have brought to my attention, in whoa-check-this-out-dude! fashion, the intrepid endeavors of foodie David Murphy, who recently blogged about using his popular-with-the-cool-kids Instant Pot to make wine from Welch’s Grape Juice. I have some thoughts on this: 1.…
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And You Were Expecting What, Exactly? (Thoughts On The PA Pay-To-Play Scandal)
“The most endangered species – The honest man” -Rush, Natural Science In the great room of my house, there are two 5″x7″ framed prints in Chinese script, each of which represents one of the two “house rules” of the home shared by me and my…
