Today is a wildly popular day celebrated with festive parties the world over. As many enlightened citizens of our global village know, today's the birthday of Austria's most famous vegetarian artist, Adolf Hitler. While one would think, with Austria's rich history of wonderful beer halls (several of which have had me crawl out of them), that there would be some use of history's most legendary hops fueled beverage in the ceremonies, it turns out that isn't the case. For reasons that can only be explained in a wafting cloud of smoke imbued with a Grateful Dead soundtrack, it seems that a certain segment of society celebrates the day by smoking … [Read more...]