Thanks to the perspicacious Alder Yarrow over at Vinography, I now have a better idea of who my competition is, out there in the world of wine punditry. Somehow, though, I never expected it to be a character in a Japanese comic book. Kami no Shizuku...

Forget what all of those advance polls are predicting. It's going to be a long election night until the final verdict is in, and you're going to need to keep yourself occupied during the endless drone of punditry. Sure, results will start dripping in at 5...

Forget what all of those advance polls are predicting. It's going to be a long election night until the final verdict is in, and you're going to need to keep yourself occupied during the endless drone of punditry. Sure, results will start dripping in at 5...

Thanks to the perspicacious Alder Yarrow over at Vinography, I now have a better idea of who my competition is, out there in the world of wine punditry. Somehow, though, I never expected it to be a character in a Japanese comic book. Kami no Shizuku...

Thanks to the perspicacious Alder Yarrow over at Vinography, I now have a better idea of who my competition is, out there in the world of wine punditry. Somehow, though, I never expected it to be a character in a Japanese comic book. Kami no Shizuku...

Ok...I'm not sure where I am...I'm definitely disoriented... So Richard Cartiere's Wine Market Report comes out today...and...and... ...BEST CALIFORNIA CHARDONNAY at the California State Fair went to.... ...Bronco's Charles Shaw (aka "2-buck-Chuck") Chardonnay! Certainly the current wine punditry would have called it "impossible", but you can safely bet your fattest paycheck that Fred Franzia...

... relevant/punditry oriented wine comic anywhere.  The new site has a universal Feedburner feed which...

Regular readers will recall that last year I undertook a fairly extensive redesign of my web site. I planned to turn ProfessorBainbridge.com into a landing page that would serve as a planet (a.k.a. hub) site for three content blogs: StephenBainbridge.com : my journal, focusing on politics and culture BusinessAssociationsBlog.com : ...

Over at MoJ, Michael Perry cites (seemingly approvingly) the following report: THE DOMINICAN Order in the Netherlands has issued a radical recommendation that lay ministers chosen by their congregations should be allowed to celebrate the Eucharist if no ordained priests are available. In a booklet posted to all 1,300 parishes ...

Here at PB.com , as regular readers know, we intersperse cutting-edge legal analysis that not infrequently is cited in judicial opinions and right-of-center punditry that has been called a "strong, respected, and demonstrably conservative voice" (although, I must admit, has also been called things I don't care to repeat), with wine tasting notes, recipes, and general culinary commentary. Being...