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Beers and Queers

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wayne Besen

The fight against beers and queers is most similar in that they both encompass pitched, ongoing battles, and both issues are subject to a maddening patchwork of anachronistic laws at the state and local levels.

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BP -- Beneficent Porn -- Can Fix the Oil Spill Crisis. Who's With Me?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Phil Bronstein

We need a Franklin Roosevelt, New Deal-style, bootstrapping Public Works Administration. Except it's the Porn/Private Works Administration.

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Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Warren Holstein

Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?

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Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Warren Holstein

Following in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, many states are now advocating an end to what many boozers and businessmen alike deem antiquated puritanical pap. The Christian Right is not amused.

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Blue Laws Repealed, Sunday Beer Sales Legal In Colorado

CNNMoney.com | Douglas Quenqua | Posted 05.25.2011

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(Fortune Small Business) -- On Sundays, Jeanne McEvoy sits in the office of her Loveland, Colo., liquor store and turns away customers. She would, na...

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