This article in the P-I today lays out several attractive possibilities:1. Gregoire, faced with a massive budget shortfall, proposes to open 10 new state liquor stores (five government run, five privately run). More stores, easier-to-find booze. No word on whether any of them are in King County.2. Not only is the guv’nor proposing more stores, she’s proposing that the stores actually sell cocktail-making supplies so customers won’t have to make 20 million stops in order to make their Sazeracs. In addition to ice cubes, may I also propose bitters? It took me years to figure out where I could buy them, since neither my local grocery store nor my LCB store carried them (De Laurenti’s wine shop has an amazing selection).3. Best yet, every time the Liquor Control Board proposes some new change, state legislators take it as an opportunity to remind us all that privatization of liquor stores might make the most sense. Doubt the state’s going to do anything to disrupt the $322 million in annual sales and fees the LCB brings in at a time like this, but maybe one of these times we’ll gnash our teeth loudly enough to make a difference.