“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The
lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the
lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its
powers to [...]

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  On October 15, 2005 more than 6 million bottles of wine stored at the Wine Central Warehouse in Vallejo were destroyed when Marc Anderson, a Sausalito, California business man set fire to the warehouse in order to destroy evidence of earlier crimes.
Entire inventories of wineries productions were destroyed as almost 100 wineries kept their [...]

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I tend to talk a loud game here at Fermentation about the corruption that surrounds the politics of wine distribution. I tend to accuse politicians of being in some people’s pockets on the issue of the three tier system. But rarely do I have the opportunity to point my readers to an example of [...]

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The American legal system really is a mess. Whether it’s the reluctance of the two parties in congress to address nominees for various federal courts or the constant tort claims, it seems that justice comes at an obscenely slow pace.
One of the reasons, however, that justice is often very slow in coming is due [...]

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A big concern of mine when I chose to stop smoking two weeks ago was that sometime about now I’d find myself balled up in the corner of my office, sitting on the floor combating withdrawals. My biggest concern was that I’d give in and start smoking again. Turns out neither of those things [...]

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