Guinness, finally...

here in the US there's now, besides the tall draft cans and regular bottled Guiness, a new bottled version that comes in a plastic bottle and has the thingy in there that makes it pour like draft. but it's a complete racket as it's only, like, 9 ounces or something for the same price as the 12 oz., non-draft style. granted it is creamier and smoother than either the can or 12 oz. bottled version. but fer my money...

LA Times goes to Ireland and discovers things for itself.

At Davy Byrnes, the conversation has moved on to whether John McCain inappropriately placated his Vietnamese captors ("He sang like a canary," Winter declares); the mass suicide and massacre of Jews in York in 1190; Josef Stalin's execution of his top army officers in the run-up to World War II; and a song by the Waterboys on a similar subject. Someone tries to remember how it goes. An argument ensues over whether the Waterboys ought to be considered an Irish band, or Scottish, or English.

Delany, the barman, looks to be of the opinion that he's not getting paid enough to keep pouring the Guinness down here, but pour he does.