Wine Drinker? Take a look at these

I know I haven't delivered on the reasons why wine drinkers should be in favor of privatization. I just don't know enough about it. Besides, there's that big safety valve in southeast PA; the biggest concentration of population in the state is right up against two state borders, and the liquor stores right on the other side keep folks from getting too angry about the PLCB. I really wonder if privatization wouldn't already be here if the BLCE did serious border patrols...

Anyway, here are two good recent pieces about how the PLCB affects wine drinkers. The first, by Dave Falchek at the Scranton Times-Tribune, is about how the PLCB warps even the forces for freedom in the wine world: Free The Grapes won't fight for freedom in PA. The second, by freelance wine writer Mark Squires, is just a flat-out screed about why the PLCB is obsolete, why it's bad for wine and wine drinkers, and why it simply has to go.

Read up! And catch me this Monday on the 10 AM show of WHYY's Radio Times (91 FM in Philly, or listen online at www.whyy.org); I'll be providing counterpoint to PLCB chairman PJ Stapleton's alternatives to privatization. Should be fun...