So. Can somebody explain to me why bars and liquor stores are closed today? I mean, I understand, more or less, why Connecticut closes bars and liquor stores on New Year’s Day, and I understand why Connecticut closes bars and liquor stores on Sunday, but surely if New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday, you can just close the stores on the first, and be done with it? I mean, you have to close banks and government offices today, because you have agreed to give eight holidays a year (or whatever) and you can’t steal a paid day off from your workers just because the calendar falls a certain way. But why one earth shouldn’t people be drinking today?
One suggestion was that there is some sort of tax-related mandatory inventory that must be done on January 1, and that if January 1 is a Sunday, then you need to do it on Monday. And although that doesn’t actually make sense, I can imagine the necessary laws accreting that way. I don’t think that’s what happened, though.
There’s no labor lobby insisting that the liquor stores close on New Year’s Day (observed), is there? The stores themselves don’t want to close, do they? Where’s the constituency for closing bars on Monday the second? Where’s the rationale?
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.
If it was Virginia, the constituency would be the Christian Right, which will eagerly brand as “evil G*d-hating liberal” anyone who might suggest repealing the centuries-old blue laws in the legislature. It’s political suicide to suggest such a thing … at least in Virginia. But Connecticut? I don’t know, I wouldn’t have expected it there.
Oh, New England has always had stronger blue laws than anywhere else in the country. So strong, in fact, that they are clear proof of Intelligent Legislation. Some people promote a (godless) theory that an area’s current laws are an accumulation of small and large changes to the statute books enacted by a legislature. But that theory ignores irreducible complexities like New England’s blue laws, which could not possibly have evolved through a set of step-wise loosening and tightening of restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol. We may attempt present-day modifications using new technologies like referenda and ballot initiatives, but we are messing with the Intelligent Legislator’s plan if we do that.
how sir can you say that sir when all available evidence points to the infinite expansion of the legislative universe? by tracking the course of their expansion, science has proven that laws are 5.7 billion years old, created in the walloping moment of cataclysmic restriction we now refer to as the “big ban.”
And all matter in the universe is connected by small strands of fine print?
at the level of fine print, all matter is both legal and illegal, influenced by the balance of charm and spin. this is quantum semantics.
(beat.)
judicial physicists are hard at work now trying to reconcile their version of quantum semantics with the once widely respected but now controversial theory of general relativity. is a unified fool theory within reach?