Weed smokes federal agency

“Weed fought the law and Weed won!”

That congratulatory exclamation sounds strange coming from an ex-cop.

But the ex-cop is now a microbrew master who found himself in trouble with the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

Vaune Dillmann’s Mt. Shasta Brewing Co. is located in the town of Weed, and he uses the name in his brews and his advertising.

The feds, however, didn’t like his plan to stamp his bottle caps with the phrase “Try Legal Weed.” Regulators said federal law prohibits drug references on alcoholic beverages.

Thus began a six-month fight, in which Mr. Dillman appealed the bureau’s rulings, earned worldwide fame (well, almost) and eventually forced the feds to back down.

They agreed to concede that “Weed” referred to the town and the beers, not to marijuana.

Mr. Dillman has six Weed Ales and plans to enter his Abner Weed in a state contest.

Weed the town was named for prominent citizen Abner Weed. But in recent years the town has enjoyed punning around with its name. There are “High on Weed” T-shirts, and a sign on the way out of town reads “Temporarily Out of Weed.”

Job for Supernanny?

Did you hear about the UVa grad who accepted a nanny job that sounds like it was posted by the Mom from Hell?

Give Manhattan mom Rebecca Land Soodak points for candor, at least.

“I can be a tad difficult to work for,” she wrote in her ad on Craigslist. “I’m loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure.”

The title of her ad: “My kids are a pain.”

To the rescue comes 25-year-old Christina Wynn, a product of the University of Virginia.

“I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year,” she told the New York Times, which covered the story after the ad became famous online. “I met the oldest child, but not the others, which my mother said was crazy… . So we’ll see.”

There are three “others,” including 6-year-old twins.

A year’s commitment to a woman who told prospective applicants that they’d better be able to multitask and better not be judgmental about wealthy women or Ritalin for kids? Who warned, “I have all sorts of theories about how to stack my dishwasher”? (Bet she reserved the right to be judgmental about how to load the glassware.)

Good luck, Christina. Let us know how it turns out.