Distilling Essence

Teach your child to drink and you may make him or her drunk. But teach him or her to distill a grain and there might be a living in it. So is the lesson from Kentucky hill country where bourbons are born.

Elsewhere in dadworld there's a fenderbender at the intersection of Drunk St. and Talent Waste Blvd. Lindsey Lohan — whose paroled former-addict dad accuses the hard partying mom of setting a bad example — is reportedly and repeatedly (if only temporarily) snogging famous-for-being famous Calum Best — son of Georgie B.. The father, of course, was the legendary Irish footballer of the 60s and 70s who allowed drink to ravage a talent argued to be the world's best.

** Roll models do not good fathers make. **