Rioting: is it impassioned activism or groupthink-escalated violence? Locke McKenzie notices that Germans like to riot about, well, everything.

Locke McKenzie relishes in the glory of Budweiser, the great American beer… which is now owned by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev.

In the tradition of Hank Williams (or the Allman Brothers, depending on who you ask), Locke McKenzie, an expatriate working as a freelance English teacher in Germany, introduces his new column, The Rambling American.