I'm not drinking any fucking merlot!

I agree with the general thrust of what Markos is trying to get at in this post, which goes on to provide some very positive national poll numbers for Nancy Pelosi courtesy of Rasmussen:

It looks like people are realizing that it's not so bad having leadership that represents a corner of the country that has brought us the personal computer, iPods, Pixar movies, Star Wars, Google, eBay, Yahoo, the mass blogging tools (like Blogger, MovableType, and TypePad), NetFlix, TiVo, WiFi, Treos, Palm, Levis, Gap, LeapFrog, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Ghirardelli, sourdough bread, the best wine in the world, redwood forests, and all kinds of other goodness.

I'll begrudgingly grant him Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo for the furthering of his point. But "the best wine in the world"? Sorry. Any even-wannabe oenophile knows that the California wine industry's willing catering to (or worse, collusion with) the dull-tongued masses' penchant for varietals has led to a dearth of truly fine wines coming out of the region. Maybe, and it's a big maybe, Sonoma County has by concentration the best wines in the country (Fuck Napa). But the world? Oh, Lordy. Let's just hope that not too many French folks read Daily Kos.

It reminds me of the "conventional wisdom" that New Yorkers espouse as to their city having the best Chinese food in the country. Even the New York Times concedes that it's not even a close call. The best Chinese food outside of China is right here in sunny Southern California in the San Gabriel Valley.