Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the lede paragraph of the year so far:
“If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose,” the comedic philosopher Jack Handey once theorized.
A messy eureka moment like that wasn’t the point for the White House beer drinkers Thursday night.
If you know and run into AP writer Calvin Woodward, please thank him for me.
Blithe Spirit 