Maine is prohibiting the sale of "Santa's Butt Winter Porter," under the theory that beer named after Santa's posterior is sure to attract sugarplum fairies and wee ones. Last year, Maine prohibited the sale of "Seriously Bad Elf" Ale from the same beer distributor because it depicted women's bare breasts. Because, after all, those old enough to drink still aren't old enough to look at a woman's bare boob. (Just ask Department of Justice attorneys under Ashcroft's reign of chastity.) The beer maker is now suing Maine in federal court under a First Amendment freedom of speech argument. Well, if the Supreme Court seems some artistic value in pole dancing, then I suppose there's some artistic value in a beer label.
Mary Cheney and her partner are on the cusp of breeding. If it's a boy, I'm sure grandpappy will be happy to buy him a Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle for his third birthday.
New York has decided to ban pretty much all trans fats in its restaurants, leaving places from McDonald's to Chez Swanky to figure out gustatory work-arounds. While I fully support making restaurants disclose caloric counts and what items have trans fats, I'm not sure that forcing all restaurants to eliminate them is warranted government intrusion. After all, if you simply provide people with all the info, and they tend to choose non-trans fat items, then the market will likely adapt. If the market fails in that instance, then go for government regulation, but it seems like we're missing the middle step here. Markets tend to work, so long as their is equal distribution of information.
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