Your important Saturday roundup of this week's beer stories.

On other comestibles: yes, really, attempting self-sufficiency in foodstuffs raises their price.

How to translate a formal business letter into collquial English (even if of the American variant).

Yes, regulation really does impose a burden upon business.

As of course governance itself imposes a burden upon everyone.

And my oh my, unintended consequences of government and regulation. Who would have thought it possible?

And finally, this week's stunningly good invention.