Arizona’s Phoenix New Times previews next Saturday’s Maricopa County Libertarian Party Convention thusly:

“Democrats drink pinot. Republicans drink whiskey. Libertarians drink at bars. Even better, the grumblety-peg curmudgeons host their political conventions at watering holes –- or at least our local cranks will at the Maricopa County Libertarian Party Convention today at Ticoz Resto-Bar. Action items on the alcohol-stained agenda include the election of new officers and ‘speeches of interest on the future of the party and liberty in America’ by talk-radio host Charles Goyette and Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Buttrick. As always with politics, even the Libertarian kind, there’s a catch: To get in, you’ve gotta buy some grub.”