And for me, today, Dave Barry is that hero. After his
original commentary on the Do Not Call list generated some
negative feedback in the telemarketing world, he really let them have it.
Of course, the ATA spokesperson played right into his hands; you just can't
make up quotes that good. But basically, he's my hero for writing the sort
of article that we would all write if we were a) that clever, and b) had
a nationally syndicated column. Way to stick it to them! It almost makes
me want to sent money when the "Barry for President in '04"
campaign rolls around.
Category: Society
Writebacks (0)
So I knew about Sunday alcohol laws, and I always thought that they were
silly... I had no idea how silly they really are (in Ohio at least).
So this morning, we're doing a grocery run, and I thought, "Hey, I should
grab some hard cider". I knew that they didn't sell wine or liquor in the
morning, but since beer is ok, I foresaw no difficulties. Sadly, they were out
of hard cider, so I grabbed some Bacardi instead. But will they sell me the
Bacardi? No. "Oh, I thought, I guess beer isn't ok after all". But
no, of course that's no it, because that would make too much sense. They won't
sell Bacardi because it's a cocktail containing hard liquor. Never
mind that it has the same alcohol content as beer. Never mind that they would
almost undoubtedly have sold me the hard cider. But if I had wanted, say, 4
cases of Miller, hey, no problem. Who thinks these things up?
In unrelated weird-law news, today I saw the strangest
ordinance ever. I can't decide which is weirder—the fact that a
city would adopt an ordinance in 1982 that requires heads of households
to own guns, or the fact that it contains an exemption for, among other
things, people "who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a
result of beliefs or religious doctrine." I can just see everyone sitting
around drafting ordinance, when someone says, "What we really
need is to make everyone own a gun!" "But wait," says another
guy, "What if people don't want to own guns?" "Good point,"
says the first guy, "Lets make the law say that everyone has to own
a gun, but only if they want to."
And apparently, nobody thought that was a stupid idea.
Category: Society
Writebacks (0)