Wednesday, April 26, 2006

No drinks allowed

By the Nanny State in the house. OK, what next?
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4 comments:

Mr roT said...

This is of course completely crazy. I wonder if any conviction like that could stand.

Still, I have heard (and not bothered to verify) that in Massachusetts it is prohibited to give your own kids alcohol.

In Texas there was an interesting law. If Pop and boy went to a bar together and boy was underage, everything was OK. But if Pop had to go to the can, then the bartender had to take the glass from in front of the boy, just in case a cop comes in he's doing the CYA, you see?

4/26/2006 10:04 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

...my home state of Connecticut has upped the ante to new heights of socialist nanny-statism. It took all of three hours for state representatives to pass a bill that, if the State Senate concurs, could send adults to jail for up to a year for serving alcohol on their property to those under 21 years of age.

Tell the State the booze is part of religious ceremony — like communion but only in bigger doses. If they still prosecute, I'll bet the whacky ACLU and other groups would be interested in the case.

Now, it'll be interesting to see if this law does pass, and further to see if binge drinking increases in the long duration.

4/26/2006 10:35 AM
Mr roT said...

I'd be on the ACLU's side bigtime. Politics makes for strange bedfellows and all that. These dangerous puritan assholes must be stopped and I will fight with my very last drop of whiskey to...

4/26/2006 8:26 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Right, right, JJ: always beware of those who wear their religion on their sleeves, collars, or as shoe-laces.

4/27/2006 1:45 AM

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