Masterminx

I was somewhat surprised to read that they have a metric behind the number of stores they can build. That's novel.

I know that drinking alcohol is not exactly a God-given right protected by the Constitution of These United States, but this is silly. I don't want to get all "slippery slope", but it seems like a sort of prohibition. If you outlaw liquor, the outlaws will have liquor. Or something like that.

I live in this state, and we all just work around the fact that the state government feels the need to hinder our ability to party or have a glass of wine with dinner. Nobody who has lived here since childhood bats an eye at the notion that you have to go to a state-owned liquor store to get anything harder than the near-beer they sell at the grocery store.

What's that old adage about boiling a frog? To be fair, the water hasn't been getting much warmer around here. They have managed a nice level of control wherein they can be comfortable and the people don't push back much.

The steam valve to all of it is the trip to the little liquor and fireworks store, just over the state border. We've all been there. If we escape detection on the way back, we can almost feel like real Americans when we get home.