[ksen]

Freedom trumps your puritanical sensibilities.

What makes you think the Puritans would've been on the ban alcohol side?

Some "fun" Puritan facts:

1. The Puritans loaded more beer than water onto the Mayflower before they cast off for the New World.
   
2. While there wasn't any cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin pie to eat at the first Thanksgiving, there was beer, brandy, gin, and wine to drink.
3. A brewery was one of Harvard College's first construction projects so that a steady supply of beer could be served in the student dining halls.
4. The early colonialists made alcohol beverages from, among other things, carrots, tomatoes, onions, beets, celery, squash, corn silk, dandelions, and goldenrod.
5. The first Kentucky whiskey was made in 1789 by a Baptist minister.
6. Colonial taverns were often required to be located near the church or meetinghouse.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/PuritansToProhibition.html

[Junior_G]

Wow. I guess these people are worse than Puritans then.