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Moonshine, that most illicit of drinks, is shedding its hick reputation, and making it is becoming a popular (and illegal) project for do-it-yourself hobbyists eager to distill their own hard liquor. Into this new paradigm steps journalist Max Watman, whose new book, Chasing the White Dog, chronicles hooch's colorful history and its place in modern culture. Watman talked to TIME about his moonshine misadventures and the difficulties of producing or procuring illicit booze...
What if the 2000 presidential election had hinged not on a diverse, messy, weird and slightly creepy hick state like Florida but on the most organized, practical and cordial one in the Union: Minnesota? What if, instead of going to court after court over hanging chads and butterfly ballots and whether a recount should happen, election officials had just calmly looked at each ballot and tried to figure out what the voter wanted...
...healthcare or how to use intellectual arguments to critique the Democratic position on abortion. But when we talk about what he wants out of his own future, suddenly Caleb is affirming his love for country music and telling me, “I’m just a hick from west Texas.” BUT REALLY...
When I tell him about Caleb’s “hick from west Texas” line, Alexander I. Burns ’08 chuckles and shakes his head. Alex is a friend of Caleb’s and a writer for The Politico, a Capitol Hill paper. During the Republican National Convention this summer, Alexander and Caleb were having dinner when a NBC camera descended on Caleb. The convention had been canceled that day because of Hurricane Gustav, and an NBC reporter asked Caleb, a Republican delegate, “Are you looking forward to getting things...
...blind tasting he plans to stage in France. There he finds, among other good wines, a Chardonnay bottled by cranky Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) at his debt-ridden family winery. You probably don't need a spoiler alert to see where this tale is going - us against them, the hick underdogs vs. the clueless snobs, with results that (how to put this gently?) will not displease any soft-hearted (or do I mean to say soft-headed?) populists who happen to wander into a showing of Bottle Shock...