Anything that is liberal with liquor is OK by me
Sean Braisted announced the creation of Liberate Tennessee. It’s purpose is to:
promote efforts in the Tennessee Legislature to liberalize Tennessee liquor laws
An excellent idea since at least three bloggers in this state owe me a beer to pay up for a bet. I guess we need to liberalize gambling laws too.
Seems to me though that this project might be misnamed. Tennessee liquor laws are pretty liberal since liberal to me implies wanting to excessively control via government.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:06 am
The historic definition of “liberal” (small ‘l’) is open, free, unrestricted.
It is the opposite of “conservative”, which follows past rituals, controlled, and restricted.
Kinda like the opposite of progress is Congress….
March 7th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Liberal = Open
March 7th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
-Jon, good points,
In today’s politics, true liberals are actually libertarians. Otherwise about the only difference in liberals and conservatives are re: the different things they want to the government to restrict and control.
Actually the words are adjectives rather than nouns. I want to conserve the Constitution and Bill of Rights so as to restrict the government and have a liberal society, i.e., more liberty for the people.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
You’ve got my support. I’ve always considered “closed on sundays” as a violation of church and state….
March 8th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
What are the liquor laws in Tennesee? Our crew tried to shut down a bar on Beale Street last weekend, and we couldn’t do it. And we shut down Texas bars all the time (2am).
March 8th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
bars aren’t the problem. it’s buying bottles.