Bo And Luke Make Glass, Wine

The Dukes of Hazzard was a TV show in the late 70s and early 80s. The plot, at least the way I remember it, always involved Bo and Luke, two brothers, getting tangled up unexpectedly in some nefarious scheme cooked up by the local Mayor, Boss Hogg. A sub-plot always involved Daisy Duke, their sister, wearing shorts and running around in a jeep, but hey, I was a teenager back then. At some point, the boys would end up crossing the state line and so be free of arrest by Boss Hogg. That "crossing the state line" has featured in many hundreds of American TV shows and movies.It always seemed to me that governments are not unlike the Dukes of Hazzard. Not so much the smuggling of moonshine and driving fast cars, although I guess that happened in some places too, but in the idea that there's a "state line" and when you cross it, your problem becomes someone else's or, at the very least, there's a whole new set of law makers involved. Cross the post code/zip code barrier and whether it's healthcare, drug availability, housing taxes, bin collection, dog poo removal or whatever, it's different. In most countries that I've visited, the consequences of this are near identical business processes supported by

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