[voltaires_zit]

> What I've been trying to point out to you is that buying
> beer on Sunday is a pretty petty complaint to make
> parallels with people who whip you with a stick for
> listening to music.

The existing blue laws are the petty remnants of what used to be every bit as bad a religiously led nitwittery as the muslims are guilty of today.

To get the flavor of how bad it used to be, check out this book in **defense** of blue laws from 1876:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/trueblue/bluelaws.html

[papertyger]

The existing blue laws are the petty remnants of what used to be every bit as bad a religiously led nitwittery as the muslims are guilty of today.

Do not assume the nitwittery was strictly based in religion. They had some funny ideas about trains that go faster than twenty miles per hour, and what constituted proper signaling at an intersection, also.