The other day I bought a case of Coors beer at Bryants Supermarket in Greenville. It was cheap, something like $11 for an eighteen pack. That's a lot of beer to drink while camping and watching the night wind along and I ultmately fall asleep. It also was a terrible mistake.

The Coors family is a famously right wing family that supports all kinds of far-right wing ideas. It's good that they are involved in influencing politics, but it seems that their ideology is beyond the pale. The Heritage foundation and other groups that Coors have supported in the past such as the Independence Institute are simply not what I want to be supporting by my drinking.

There are many other beers that are widely avaliable that taste as good if not better and don't support vast right wing causes. The alternative to Coors is not Budwiser, which is a fancy name for horse piss in a can. Pabst Blue Ribbon competes well for price, and is pretty darn good beer for the price. More expensive but as delious is Corona for the summer and Sam Adams for the winter or cold nights in the woods in the fall where you want to get drunk relatively fast.

I will occassionally drink Coors when that's the best choice around. It's a pretty darn good tasting beer for it's price, and Pabst Blue Ribbon can be awful hard to find at times. At WGNA Countryfest 2006, your only choices where Coors or Mike's Hard Lemonade. Coors is pretty good beer, except for it's politics. Drink with extreme caution and look for alternatives whenever possible.