Politics and beer

"I don't know why anyone would want to be a politician," said the person sitting on the next bar stool over. "Our democratic republic, as fragile as it is, survives because there still are citizens who do," I replied, and returned to the beer at hand.

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries began in January 2008 when I noticed that I had been posting quite too often on matters political over at my beer blog Yours for Good Fermentables.

Here are links to some of those past cross-blog political posts.

• several here
• and Respect for Democracy here