Oooh, the Californians are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Californians!
My post opining that even if California does pass Wisconsin in terms of cheese production, the Chablis sipping Golden Staters will never match the Cheeseheads (or any other state in the Upper Midwest for that matter) in terms of drinking, drew a defiant response from Ben at Infinite Monkeys, as well as e-mails from all the usual suspects who reside on the left coast.
Rather then coming back with a lengthy rebuttal, let me just offer up this tidbit for you to chaw on. On Tuesday voters in Bolinas, California passed a measure which tells you all you need to know about the state:
Residents of this quirky coastal town north of San Francisco decided overwhelmingly to declare their love of nature, skunks and a few other things perhaps not as easily understood.
Sponsored by a local woman known for wearing hats made of tree bark and newspaper, Measure G won 314 to 152 in the town of 1,200, where residents are so protective of their isolated way of life that they regularly remove highway signs pointing into town.
The text of the measure, in its entirety: "Vote for Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean) and to make it beautiful."
Yeah, that sounds like a real hard drinking crowd.
Right now, throughout the Upper Midwest, scores of men (and women) are headed to the woods to kill deer. Although I'm don't participate myself, I wish them the best of luck. After they've slightly culled the grossly overpopulated deer herd with rifles, shotguns, and compound bows, they'll return to their hunting shacks to drink beer, whiskey, and schnapps and regale themselves with tales of the hunt.
In California they're worried about trying to save skunks.
'Nuff said.
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