Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking


Fascinating article on why we can't have a bottle of wine in the park or a beer on the beach. I've always thought it amazing that one could drink on the LIRR, but it turns out the LIRR are the normal ones; everyone else has changed...

The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking: But to ask how these places were independently able to legalize public drinking is to fundamentally misunderstand the situation. Towns like New Orleans and Butte didn't have to take specific steps to allow public drinking -- they just never banned it.

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