Here are a couple of surprising stories that may be related. Or drug-related.
For the first time in 16 years, California’s wine industry saw its shipments fall in 2009 by some four million cases of wine. Unbelievable but true!
Industry analyst Jon Fredrikson said, "Usually, we're raving about how great the year was, but this was probably the worst year you ever had."
And the news may further ferment for wine country...
...As supporters of legalized marijuana in California announced today that they have gathered about 700,000 signatures, virtually guaranteeing voters will see a vote for legalized pot on the state's November ballot (they only needed some 400,000 signatures).
According to Richard Lee, a highly successful Oakland marijuana mogul, “This is a historic first step toward ending cannabis prohibition. I’ve always believed that cannabis should be taxed and regulated and that our current laws aren’t working.”
Stand by for yet another fabulous Hollywood sci-fi adventure featuring tangly California grapevine mutant monsters doing battle with giggling and drooling large-leaved cannabis sativa creatures...in..."Star Trek: Wrath of Grapes".
(With apologies to John Steinbeck)
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Ever notice there are some people who reach for the salt shaker before they even taste their food? I don't get that. It's like they have to have a little snowfall on whatever their eating!
Well, here's something of interest...
A modest reduction in the mountains of salt consumed by the typical American each year could lead to 155,000 fewer heart attacks and strokes annually, according to a new research study from the University of California, San Francisco.
The reduction in croakees would come from reducing salt-intake by about 3 grams a day.
It turns out that the average man consumes about 10 grams a day and the average woman, 7 grams. That adds up, gang...to like 8 POUNDS A YEAR!
Jeepers, let's just rent ourselves out to horse stables as a salt lick.
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Yet another black mark for "gas-guzzlers"...
But this time the aggrieved driver was a U.S. Army soldier based at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
It seems he was driving a military Humvee from Georgia to Central Florida where he ran out of gas. (What do Humvees get - about 23 gallons to the mile?).
So, a county cop saw the stranded soldier by the roadside and stopped to give a helping hand.
Well, let's make that a hand-cuff.
It turns out the soldier was illegally off-base and had stolen the Humvee earlier in the week.
Like Aesop's Fables, there's a moral to this story:
Humvee Dumbvee in-stolen-car, stalled
Humvee Dumbvee, caught AWOL, was hauled
Gas-guzzling his tank
No bucks in the bank
It would never be us.
'Cause we'd swipe a Prius!
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Joan Rivers. Gotta love her.
But I wish she'd get the backbone to express an opinion....
In the latest Vanity Fair magazine, Joan went into gory detail about why she thinks Jay Leno is "not funny" (her words) and even more vicious analysis as to why Conan's getting fired was the best thing that could have happened to him.
Remember the other day, I mentioned how Leno and Letterman are expecting to have a booking war - with Dave saying he won't book anyone who goes on "The Tonight Show".
On who's show do you suppose we'll next be seeing Joan Rivers?
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