Another week, another story about Bud Light tucking its corporate testicles into furry, rainbow colored panties.  This time they are now offering a $15 rebate on a 15 pack, which makes it effectively free after the rebate.  They also appear to have gotten Harley Davidson in the mix as well.  I will say one thing with certainty:  if Rob Halford of Judas Priest doesn’t figure out a way to cash in on the Bud Light – Harley Davidson fiasco, nobody will.

This is my review of Grand Canyon Dead Hanger Pale Ale:

Team Obama gave us plenty of reasons to hate on Team Obama, but one that was particularly irritating was the concept of “food deserts”. That is parts of the country that lack access to food determined by the government to be healthy.  Never mind the presence of a Wal-Mart within walking distance of these areas, or their commitment to build new Wal-Marts in the areas identified.  Nobody could possibly buy something as nutritious as fresh produce at the local Wal-Mart out of their own free will.

Well, they’re pulling the same stunt with playgrounds:

About 10% of the country is designated a food desert. But the new research shows a similar percentage of the U.S. lacks playgrounds, parks and other areas for kids to run around.

Many of the counties lacking access to play areas were clustered in the Southeast and Southwest. Additionally, pockets of play deserts were most common in rural and suburban areas throughout the country. But in the South, even urban areas lacked adequate play space.

“Parents often consider a park the first place to go for their children to get some exercise and to play,” said Jue Yang, lead author of the study and a doctoral geography student in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

“But even if you have the park near where you live, if the environment is not safe or it’s very difficult to access, then people will not use it,” said Lan Mu, corresponding author of the study and a professor of geography.

This actually makes a lot of sense to me, a lifetime resident of the Southwest.  My favorite park to play at growing up had a deteriorating fighter jet sitting in the sand where we would play king of the hill on the wing that was still attached.  The winner got to burn their ass on the metal chair bolted in the cockpit.  It was freaking awesome.

Capitalism failed because there aren’t enough man made lagoons to go around

Anyways, of the four public playgrounds within walking distance to my house—in the Southwest, only 2 of them have multiple baseball fields open to the public.  Only two have multiple fields where one could play soccer or football.  All of them however, have playground equipment under an overhang but only one of them sadly contains a manmade lake.  The other two it would never occur to me to use because they are located at public schools and are shared with the public schools which close down in the summer because they’re goddamn public schools that close down in the summer.

Its not like I live in this bourgeois neighborhood, either.  Even assuming I did live in a shitty part of town, there’s a 72 acre public park in a part of Phoenix I don’t want to be at after dark—unless I want to buy meth.  Maybe the reason normal people hate academia is it’s primarily written by people writing authoritatively about places they never been, in the relentless pursuit of publishing “studies” that only identify problems that don’t actually exist, to be solved solely by people in government to justify their meaningless existence.

 

Do you like Dead Guy Ale?  Its really good, and chances are pretty good even if you are not a fan of American Pale Ale, you DO like Dead Guy Ale.  Now….do you like PAYING for Dead Guy Ale?  Yeah, it can be hard to justify in these trying times where we lament these old videos of Hulk Hogan slonking $80 worth of eggs per day.  Yeah brudder!  Its dead ringer for Dead Guy Ale at a price I am not wincing at.  Hopefully they don’t get sued. Grand Canyon Dead Hanger Pale Ale:  3.8/5  ≈6-7% ABV