Kevin Rudd, it seems, is not unique.
Alcohol
Political snippets: Woolworths’ ACDC wine brain fade
Perhaps Woolworths will ask the producers to add a Bon Scott label drawing attention to the coroner’s finding that the original lead singer for the band died of “acute alcohol poisoning”
Political snippets: Rudd’s memory loss regarding John Faulkner
Short term memory loss is a helpful attribute for a politician.
Alcohol in the Alice: the drink destroying a city
In Alice Springs, locals drink double the national average of alcohol per year. Therefore it’s no surprise that 70-90% of the assaults in the town are alcohol-related. How do we stop the grog? asks Russell Goldflam.
Only parents and guardians should be able to buy booze for minors
Sarah Jaggard from he Australian Drug Foundation, is hoping that a new call to ban the secondary supply of alcohol to minors may be taken up by the Victorian Government.
US drowns their economic sorrows
The US is still in very tough times economically and when the going gets tough, the tough get boozed. Alcohol consumption in the States is up, but people are drinking cheaper brands and boozing at home.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The legal drinking age: stout Crikey readers whine
Crikey readers weigh in on the prospect of raising the drinking age to 21, the Green Loans scheme and Barnaby Joyce’s role as Opposition financial minister.
We’re drunken violent yobbos, no matter the advertising
Getting wasted on Australia Day isn’t some inherent national right that the liquor industry must defend, says Jeremy Bass. The businesses serving the booze — from pubs to supermarket grog shops — need to widen their tunnel vision.
Drugs vs. booze
Debate is heating up in the UK after the government’s former chief drugs adviser, Dr David Nutt, was sacked over his views that cannabis is less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol. Now the scientific community is coming to his defence.
Intervention lets Territory grog runners walk free
Canberra is weak as piss on grog in the Northern Territory, and several NT Magistrates are angry that their sentencing options for grog-runners have been seriously compromised by the Intervention.
13 types of booze you can brew in your own kitchen
Most people have made abortive attempts to brew their own beer, but what about apple cider, Irish cream, mead, gin or sambuca? Sloshpot explains how to make 13 alcoholic beverages in your own home.
Video of the Day: Drinking like Mad Men
How do the characters on Mad Men spend so much of their work-day drinking booze and still get any work done? The ladies of Double X try it and see — all in the name of science, of course.
Video of the Day: Getting tanked at The New York Times
Former NYT journo Gay Talese recalls the alcohol-fuelled newsrooms of yore, which he claims made the characters on Mad Men look like amateurs. But did a diet of booze and smokes really make for more creative writers?
The best Bloody Mary on the whole bloody planet?
With a whopping 17 ingredients — including Guinness, pickled okra and beetroot — bon appetit magazine reckons it’s landed upon the greatest Bloody Mary recipe in the world. The Bitten Word lads put it to the test.
Which famous author would you go boozing with?
Literary figures are long time lovers of drinking and alcoholism. Would you have been more likely to share a tipple with Oscar Wilde or a rum with Ernest Hemingway? Take the quiz!
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Economists on the economy?
Crikey readers weigh in on where economists know anything about the economy, John Della Bosca jokes and the joys of ABC’s Respectember.
Russia’s new war on drinking
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is taking on the unenviable task of breaking the country’s vodka-guzzling ways, in an attempt to lower the staggeringly high level of alcoholism and alcohol-related deaths and illness. Can the convince the country to sober up?
What’s Elvis Presley got to do with alcohol labelling?
Health Minister Nicola Roxon could do with ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’ when it comes to health warnings on alcohol labels, writes Jennifer Doggett.
Why alcohol should carry a health warning
We provide consumers with information that some foods contain traces of nuts; that excessive consumption of some mints has a laxative effect, and that some products cause drowsiness. Why let alcohol off the hook? asks VicHealth CEO Todd Harper.
Ice goes gourmet
In Canada, bartending just got wankier, with bartenders — sorry, “beverage consultants” — creating their own “designer ice” for drinks.
Why is some whisky so exey?
Once you start seeing prices for whisky above, say $500, it has more to do with human nature than the quality of the drop, writes Kate Hopkins.
Political snippets: The Age finds communists in China
The Age investigates and finds communism in China, Australians are not drinking any less and headline of the day!
Here’s to vintage London
London’s first commercial vineyard since medieval times was planted yesterday.
Bottoms up! Cocktail recipes for the recession
Drown your sorrows with a Nasdaiquiri.
