Holy cow: According to the Beer Institute, beer has an annual "economic impact" in Indiana of $2.36 billion a year. That group has an incentive to make the figure seem as big as possible, but, still, that's a lot of suds. Never mind all these other silly economic-development ideas like downtown hotels and football teams and luring new companies. Let's just put a place on every corner where we can buy beer. Oh, wait, we've done that. Then maybe we should do the reverse of Gov. Daniels' privatization binge and have beer places go public, get government permits. Oops, done that, too.
Can you imagine how deserted the Three Rivers Festival would be without beer? How boring baseball games would be to sober fans? Reminds me of the only Grateful Dead joke I know. What did the Deadhead say when he finally ran out of marijuana? Say, you know what? This music sucks.
