The news is dreadful: According to the Census, since 2006 we have been living in a republic where, for the first time in the history of the republic, Americans drink more bottled water than we drank beer.Why is this important? It’s important because beer is a socially oriented beverage, and bottled water is a privately oriented one . . . .
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