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Law professor says he’ll sue Idaho over ‘Five Wives Vodka’ ban

Jessica Gresko, AP:

Idaho officials may face a sobering lawsuit over their ban on a vodka that makes a cheeky reference to polygamy, a Washington law professor says.

In a letter dated Wednesday and published on his website, George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley informs Idaho officials he will sue on behalf of the producer of Five Wives Vodka if the state doesn’t reverse its decision not to allow the vodka’s sale. He says the ban is unconstitutional and he gives the state 10 days to reverse its position.

I mean, maybe a dick move on Idaho’s part, but why would you name alcohol that in the first place? These guys are totally trolling right.

Town of liquor foe Carry Nation OKs Sunday sales

Maria Sudekum Fisher, AP:

Turn-of-the-century teetotaler Carry A. Nation began her campaign against drinking by busting up saloons in Kansas, which to this day has some of the strictest liquor laws in the country. But even in the town where her legacy is enshrined, the influence of the hatchet-wielding crusader is waning.

Residents in Medicine Lodge, where Nation lived for about a decade in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the site of the Carry Nation Home Museum, approved a measure this week to allow Sunday liquor sales for the first time at least since Prohibition.

The vote, which the county certified Friday, allows the sale of beer and liquor on all Sundays except Easter. In November 2010, voters in Barber County, where Medicine Lodge is located, also voted to legalize liquor by the drink in bars and restaurants.

Wikipedia has a good rundown on Kansas’s alcohol laws, which are pretty strict as far as the procurement of booze in the U.S. goes.

A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.

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Law professor says he’ll sue Idaho over ‘Five Wives Vodka’ ban

Town of liquor foe Carry Nation OKs Sunday sales