Celebrate Independence Day with craft beer

I'll take the opportunity on the Fourth of July to remind everyone that July is American Beer Month. So while you're celebrating our independence this weekend, why not drink American beer, the same thing our founding fathers drank? And try a craft beer, something made by the little guy, not a giant multinational corporation.

For those beer drinkers out there who "only drink imports," I can guarantee you that the best beer brewed in the world is brewed here in the United States. Any import you like has an American counterpart that will be fresher than a beer that's been shipped across the ocean.

So have a great Independence Day, especially those of you who have to work -- I work at a newspaper and know what that's like.

I'll end with the final -- totally unrelated to beer -- sentence of the Declaration of Independence, where the signers, knowing full well that they had committed themselves and could not turn back, wrote:

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.