The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Tautological
“Pollen Creates Painful Spring for Allergy Sufferers”–headline, WTOP-FM Web site (Washington), April 9
The Drinkers United Will Never Be Defeated!
“Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites,” the Associated Press reports from Copenhagen:
The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company’s new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites. . . .
Truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy–even though they are exempt from the new rules.
Well, at least Carlsberg isn’t so extreme as to prevent the drivers from drinking. …
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