You have to wonder what the rest of the day will be like when you wake up, go to the Campbell’s Condensed Soup News (USAToday) website and see the following item in the “Offbeat News” column:

Libation taxation without representation
SALT LAKE CITY – Call it the Great Salt Lake Beer Party. Saying he was a prime target of the beer tax bill that mostly Mormon state lawmakers passed last month, brewer Greg Schirf says he will assert his free-speech rights by pouring the first kegs of his new 1st Amendment Lager into Great Salt Lake. On Thursday, Schirf says he’ll dress up as founding father and notorious tippler Ben Franklin, and, in an updated version of the Boston Tea Party, protest taxation without representation. With the tax now $12.80 a barrel, Utah suds are among the most expensive in the nation. That’s fine with Waddoups, who said Friday his main reason for the tax hike proposal was to continue funding the state’s anti-drunken driving measures.