Dateline 1933

"On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the U.S Constitution is ratified, repealing Prohibition. The manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages is no longer illegal and the government enacts an emergency ordinance permitting the sale of beer and wine."

Tonight we went out to celebrate this joyous anniversary at Park Chow, drinking (what else) a big pint of one of our local favorites, Speakeasy's Prohibition lager.

Aren't you glad it's not 1932? or 1919? Or any year in-between? I hadn't realized that the Women's Christian Temperance Union made everything dull for nearly fourteen years. Did you know that the WCTU still exists? Initially they did not accept Catholic, Jewish or African-American women, or even women who had not been born in North America. However, today even men can join as honorary members. They still hate alcohol, cigarettes, "club drugs" and of course, because there is more than enough hate to go around, same-sex marriage.