Comments on: Americans! Celebrate the Repeal! http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: endrest http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1600776 endrest Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1600776 "To alcohol!  The cause of and solution to all life's problems!" -H. Simpson “To alcohol!  The cause of and solution to all life’s problems!” -H. Simpson

]]> By: bill_mcgonigle http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599978 bill_mcgonigle Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599978 Prohibition isn't close to over - if anything it's worse than ever.  Just read yesterday that there are now more people locked up for drug-related offenses than were locked up for all offenses in 1980.  Because it was unconstitutional to ban alcohol without an amendment, but everything else is just fine (right?). And regarding alcohol specifically (America's second-favorite drug): in my state, people aren't even allowed to sell liquor (the State maintains that monopoly).  There are dry towns, liquor licensing laws that keep small startups out of the business, etc.  All remnants of Prohibition. Prohibition isn’t close to over – if anything it’s worse than ever.  Just read yesterday that there are now more people locked up for drug-related offenses than were locked up for all offenses in 1980.  Because it was unconstitutional to ban alcohol without an amendment, but everything else is just fine (right?).

And regarding alcohol specifically (America’s second-favorite drug): in my state, people aren’t even allowed to sell liquor (the State maintains that monopoly).  There are dry towns, liquor licensing laws that keep small startups out of the business, etc.  All remnants of Prohibition.

]]> By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599904 Dlo Burns Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599904 And Utah was the 36th to sign (and yes, there were others who didn't, mostly in the south). And Utah was the 36th to sign (and yes, there were others who didn’t, mostly in the south).

]]> By: Keith Tyler http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599866 Keith Tyler Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599866 Ironically, or perhaps not, marijuana becomes de jure legal in Washington state tomorrow. (I say de jure because it will remain theoretically illegal under federal law.) Ironically, or perhaps not, marijuana becomes de jure legal in Washington state tomorrow.

(I say de jure because it will remain theoretically illegal under federal law.)

]]> By: Sam http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599801 Sam Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599801 In that case: I propose a big boozy toast to all the extra pedantic posters out there. In that case: I propose a big boozy toast to all the extra pedantic posters out there.

]]> By: agrovista http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599799 agrovista Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599799 Thats tomorrow, today is the 5th of december not sure how you are in the future. If you want to get extra pedantic it wasn't adopted till the 18th of dec. "Class" Thats tomorrow, today is the 5th of december not sure how you are in the future. If you want to get extra pedantic it wasn’t adopted till the 18th of dec.
“Class”

]]> By: Sam http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599782 Sam Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599782 Anniversary of the 13th amendment and we're talking about boozing... Class. Anniversary of the 13th amendment and we’re talking about boozing… Class.

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599753 dragonfrog Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599753 That confirms my own bias toward cocktails - if you don't want to drink it neat, it's probably not fit to drink at all. Except if you're making eggnog, or getting your fruitcake drunk.  Those are different things altogether. That confirms my own bias toward cocktails – if you don’t want to drink it neat, it’s probably not fit to drink at all.

Except if you’re making eggnog, or getting your fruitcake drunk.  Those are different things altogether.

]]> By: wetitnpetit http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/americans-celebrate-the-repea.html#comment-1599749 wetitnpetit Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=198686#comment-1599749 Here's to letting the ladies into the bar! Can you imagine a bunch of dude's drinking in a dark smokey bar in secret somewhere. Sounds like a Freemasonic Sweat Lodge. Whew. Here’s to letting the ladies into the bar! Can you imagine a bunch of dude’s drinking in a dark smokey bar in secret somewhere. Sounds like a Freemasonic Sweat Lodge. Whew.

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