(Orig. posted 11/24/08) It is an absolute travesty that you can't buy alcohol on Sundays in certain states.

Oh, you can still order it in restaurants. Yet you can't buy in in grocery stores.

Impeccable logic by the finest outmoded legislative powers in America.

The funniest part is, I guarantee a particular group of people would balk at rescinding this law. I can hear them now, in their strident drawls:

("The lawrd don't whant us ta draynk on Sundays. Iyt's the ho-lee day of reyst!")

True.

Instead, we can dedicate the day to outlawing groups of people to marry, despite having no constitutional right to do so. (But it's OK, because that's what our merciful god would want.)

Or maybe teach our kids that dinosaurs and humans lived shoulder-to-shoulder. After all, evolution is nothing more than a vast conspiracy started by a cabal of pagan intellectuals, right? Carbon dating? Pluh-eeze. Don't believe the hype.

And most crucial of all, emphasize that anyone who doesn't believe any of these things is going to hell. Because America - land of the free - is a "Christian nation."

(Never mind that most of our founding fathers despised organized religion. And went to great lengths to ensure the separation of church and state in America.)

Tell you what. Keep being holier than me. Just let me buy my 12-pack we'll call it even. Better yet, a bottle of red. Because Jesus did turn water into wine, right?