According to the rules of publicsurplus.com—an Ebay for governments—if you bid on an item five minutes before the auction closes, it’ll extend another five minutes and so on ad infinitum until five minutes elapse without any new bids.

Currently, all of the Washington State liquor stores are in overtime. You can watch the action here.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....