Great idea; wrong cause A South Dakota rancher empties a bottle of Yellow Tail (looks like chardonnay from here) on the ground as a protest against Yellow Tail’s donating $100,000 to the American Humane Society. “Front group man extraordinaire Rick Berman and his attack group, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), have launched a new Web site, HumaneWatch.org, to harass the Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS), the country’s largest animal welfare organization. In pursuing
its mission of stopping animal cruelty, HSUS has apparently run afoul
of some large, wealthy business interests, and now it is getting some
major pushback.”

(Thanks, Sourcewatch and PRWatch!)

Gotta keep those homeless people we forced into shelters sober for the hockey games British Columbia’s Liquor Licensing Branch has been forcing private liquor stores in downtown Vancouver to close early during the Winter Olympics

I don’t know much about art but I know what I like One of the Vancouver Olympics art installations is the Candahar, a working replica of an Irish bar.

But Bullwinkle, that trick never works Charlie Sheen is back in rehab. “Sheen did not show up for work on Monday and his bail — which requires
that he not consume drugs or alcohol — could be revoked in Colorado,
where he is awaiting trial on domestic-violence charges. The actor’s
spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, described his client’s decision to enter
rehab as a ‘preventative measure’ and added he would ‘take some time
off’ from [his TV] series.” In a semi-unrelated story, actor Rip Torn has entered rehab after breaking into a Salisbury, Connecticut bank while armed and drunk. “A court heard Men In Black star Torn, 78, was allegedly so intoxicated that he believed he was at home and had left his hat and boots by the door.”

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