A completely unnecessary state agency wastes money:


The first state survey of who visits North Carolina wineries will help tourism officials market the wineries to those who like them, typically well-educated people in middle age, officials said.


Gracious, how ever did the wineries manage without state officials taxing us and paying state functionaries to do the wineries’ jobs of advertising?

Here’s my favorite quote in the article:


“When we looked at what they enjoyed most, it was tasting the wine and buying the wine.”


What a revelation! People interested in wine like tasting wine and buying wine. Thank you, NC Wine and Grape Council, for distilling the facts from this mystery!

As Holmes regaled me with the account in the Press, I remarked with some sarcasm that the lot of it was, in fact, not excrement at all.