Thursday, July 5, 2012

It's Sunday Thursday ?

I've been watching another wonderful Ken Burns series - Prohibition - on DVD.

I've learned where the terms teetotaler and skid row come from (capital "t" total abstinence, and the saloon district of Seattle where loggers "skidded" logs along a track to their loading site - in case you didn't know either), and that before Carrie Nation and the women's temperance movements began, the age of sexual consent in the United States was 10 years old!

I also learned that prohibition lasted almost 14 years.  I had in mind that it was much shorter than that.

Can't help but notice how the war on drugs parallels the experience of prohibition.  Including the fact that religion plays a not-insignificant role.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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