I didn’t take a long vacation over the 4th of July, it’s just been an incredibly busy (oddly enough) July. Much of my spare time has been reviewing what is going on with American and world politics right now, which is as fascinating a read as some of my favorite pieces of fiction (wonder what that means?). Since this isn’t a political blog, I won’t get into it, even though it’s hard not to.

However, I am watching the other things going on that do represent this country and how it’s being played out on the world stage, not the least of which was InBev’s buyout of Anheuser Busch (below post). Being in St. Louis I felt the impact especially hard and have heard the nightly news and our regions reactions to the buyout, which even though the buyout turned out to not be hostile, the reaction to it has been.

But as these things often go, there are many people who are going to be very rich as a consequence of the buyout and face it, Anheuser Busch has been one of the last to go. For that we commend them. The beer industry in general though has been hard hit due to the beverage market expanding into way more options than just beer and the consumers appetite switching from beer to wine and hard spirits.

Mojito anyone?

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