Posted on 03/20/2005 7:35:56 PM PST by tbird5
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
-- Humphrey Bogart
HOW DID IT come to this? When was it decided that the dorks and the squares, the button-down mediocrities for whom a third Friday-night beer is the height of excess, would be calling the shots? Who empowered these teetotaling chumps, these jogging crypto-fascists with spotless livers and unblackened lungs, to decide where we smoke and how we drink and what we eat? The Declaration of Independence professes a commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But apparently when it comes to substance abuse and foods of dubious nutrition, all bets are off. America is in very real danger from a creeping neo-prohibitionism, a systematic snuffing out of our beloved vices. It can only end badly.
It’s happening in Boston. It’s happening across the country. It’s happening abroad. Smoking bans are everywhere. Happy hours are history. Colleges are drying out. Fast-food chains are excoriated for exercising their right — their duty! — to serve big-ass burgers. The calls for "sin taxes" grow louder. Is it that much of a stretch to envision this drip-drip-drip of reproach, repression, and regulation eventually culminating in black-market smokes and a second stab at Prohibition?
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonphoenix.com ...
BUMP!
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What this is about is FREEDOM! No matter how clean a life you lead, in the end, you are still going to die. 'nuff said.
Yep, Eat Right, Exercise - Die Anyway.
Yep, Eat Right, Exercise - Die Anyway.
I'd like to know the outcome. Isn't a bar private property, just like "someone else's home?" Of course, the smoking bans would say no, it isn't. The puritanical fascists have me thoroughly confused about this.
So you might as well enjoy it while you can.
Screw the busybodies.
Life is fatal if you live long enough.
The Rats want all my money and the Republicans want to run my private life... and people wonder why I'm a libertarian.
Boston is, and always has been, one, very boring town. If it weren't for the college kids vomiting beer in the streets there wouldn't be ANY nightlife after midnight.
Apparently not if the cops decide it isn't. Bleat like a sheep; no one is standing up to this abuse.
This was a great article. Well worth the fifteen minutes or so it took me to read it. Too bad the thread didn't receive more responses. Maybe I'll see if this bump can't bring a little life back into it.
Yeah, that's why my guru is Jim Fixx...oh wait...never mind.
I can't believe this article was in a Phoenix.
Well, maybe I can, since just about anything goes, when it comes to the Phoenix demo.
Still...
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