try it, you'll like it. I mean craft beer, not gay marriage.

How about Pepsi and Coke? I had a friend who claimed he could tell the difference between them, so I poured a couple glasses of Royal Crown when he was out of the room, and had him come in to tell which was Pepsi and which was Coke. He took a taste of each, shook his head puzzled for awhile and then said they both tasted like Royal Crown to him. So maybe he could tell, but certainly I couldn’t.

I have a friend in Missouri who brews beer and is an expert. When I challenged him to a taste test of lawnmower beers he refused the blind test. I suspect he knew that even he could not tell the difference.

Old Milwaukee was Schlitz’s cheap beer, like Busch to Budweiser. The beer distributers used to come by the bar to promote their beers and we though the Stroh’s guys were cool, but the Schlitz guy was an asshole. That’s where I got my dislike for Old Milwaukee, and from there to Milwaukee’s Best, though like I said, I’m sure that I couldn’t tell in a taste test.

But have you ever tried a craft beer, a pale ale? I have my favorite brands of craft beer, but that is not as important to me as what kind of beer it is. If you haven’t I suggest that you try it. It might cost you ten bucks a week more, but your beer drinking experience would more than make up for that.

You know the bible has been written and translated from various languages and councils of mere mortals have decided what goes in it and what to leave out, but the hardcore literal bible guys maintain that even if it was mortal men doing the writing and editing, the hand of god was right there at every step making sure they wrote it right, so it’s really the same as if god sat down on a rock and wrote it.

The constitution we pretty much know who wrote it and when. There are some who think the hand of god guided every word but most of us don’t. However there are many who think it is some mystic thing, the product of these far seeing wise men, but if you read their biographies there was nothing super about any of them. And may I remind you it was written by a committee, during a hot summer, way before air conditioning.

I’m not saying we should scrap it, and I would agree that it has served us well, but I don’t get all tingly about it. And it’s really all about how you interpret it. Twenty years ago nobody would have thought that the constitution called for gay marriage and anymore it is fast becoming the law of the land.

Going down to Missouri on Sunday and won’t be back until late Tuesday, so I’m going to miss a few of our exchanges.