Nanny State Update: Porch Sofa Fines and Small-Town Brewery Bans

St. Louis Bans Local Brews from Festivals: Home brewers in St. Louis who made hundreds of gallons of beer for this past weekend’s St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival are going to have a lot of extra brew on their hands after the city banned them from participating on Monday.

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Oslo and Profanity for Profane Times

By Jim O’Neill Sunday, July 31, 2011

“Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”—Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“If you can’t say f—k, you can’t say, ‘f—k the government.’”—Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)

“I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bulls—t.”—Mel Brooks

Before getting into the meat of this article I would like to briefly discuss the recent acts of terrorism in Oslo, Norway. No sane person, and certainly no Christian worthy of the name, could possibly condone such horrific activity. Link

Yet our purveyors of leftist anti-American doublethink—the media—have been quick to promulgate the myth that the alleged perpetrator, Anders Breivik, is a “right-wing Christian fundamentalist.” Link

That is a lie. Breivik’s manifesto has much more in common with the rantings of eco-nut Ted Kaczynski, than the teachings of Jesus Christ. But I will let that pass for the moment, and shortly direct attention to some other whoppers that the mass media have told us. These lies, or Sorelian myths if you prefer, are sometimes given as evidence of the media’s hypocrisy and double-standards. I prefer to call the media bald-faced liars—it’s more to the point. Link Link

via Oslo and Profanity for Profane Times.