Reader Rants 'n' Raves

America for sale: Boost or bust for US economy?

It was a perfect American scene: a couple of buddies happily knocking back beers while watching a baseball game on a balmy summer's evening. Except for the fact that the beer they were gulping, the country's best-selling All-American Budweiser beer, is soon to be Belgian following the acceptance by Anheuser-Busch of a $52-billion takeover bid from Flemish brewing giant InBev.8:00 AM on July 27