Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Good news for Bacchus and Baccchus.
Bacchus is not just god of wine, but of wild and craziness, as opposed to apollonian puritanism. Teatotaling prohibitionists brought on an era of organized crime. I don't mean here the organized criminals who control state legislatures, but their less-offical counterparts. One version has it that the mafia is the government of sicily in exile from the war of the spanish succession in was that 1500 something. It at least looks like a government - protection rackets, vice rackets, sanctioned killings, turf disputes, these are the kind of things governments do. Wets orgnized and won repeal, but the 22nd Amendment had a few kinks that are still being worked out.
One of those is whether a state can ban out of state wine shipments.
Clint Bolick, my hero, founder of the Institute for Justice, www.ij.org argued the case before the supreme court, and is likely to win. The transcripts, once released, might make a good read.
The court looks like it will rely on the Bacchus case, although three dissenters in that case are on the court today. Bolick's agenda is not merely liberation of wine. He wants to liberate commerce, and have the court recognize privileges and immunities. I think in this case he will the battle but not the war. States will narrowly adjust their overregulation and move on.
But every time Clint can take a case to the Supreme Court and win, it helps the credibility of his organization. Recently he has semi-retired to Arizona and is doing something exciting ... setting up state chapters that advocate for economic liberty under state constitutions. That's a good trend.
There's the wine, now where's the beef? I though the Court was hearing the beef checkoff case today as well, but maybe that's later this week.
I interrupt this bulliten to go pull some steamed broccoli out of the pessure cooker -it smells done. That's "what's for dinner." Back when I watched TV, those commercials were annoying, only slighly offset by knowing James Garner has had a heart attack from eating too much beef. Moo.
Over at drezner's, goat is what's for dinner.
Bacchus is not just god of wine, but of wild and craziness, as opposed to apollonian puritanism. Teatotaling prohibitionists brought on an era of organized crime. I don't mean here the organized criminals who control state legislatures, but their less-offical counterparts. One version has it that the mafia is the government of sicily in exile from the war of the spanish succession in was that 1500 something. It at least looks like a government - protection rackets, vice rackets, sanctioned killings, turf disputes, these are the kind of things governments do. Wets orgnized and won repeal, but the 22nd Amendment had a few kinks that are still being worked out.
One of those is whether a state can ban out of state wine shipments.
Clint Bolick, my hero, founder of the Institute for Justice, www.ij.org argued the case before the supreme court, and is likely to win. The transcripts, once released, might make a good read.
The court looks like it will rely on the Bacchus case, although three dissenters in that case are on the court today. Bolick's agenda is not merely liberation of wine. He wants to liberate commerce, and have the court recognize privileges and immunities. I think in this case he will the battle but not the war. States will narrowly adjust their overregulation and move on.
But every time Clint can take a case to the Supreme Court and win, it helps the credibility of his organization. Recently he has semi-retired to Arizona and is doing something exciting ... setting up state chapters that advocate for economic liberty under state constitutions. That's a good trend.
There's the wine, now where's the beef? I though the Court was hearing the beef checkoff case today as well, but maybe that's later this week.
I interrupt this bulliten to go pull some steamed broccoli out of the pessure cooker -it smells done. That's "what's for dinner." Back when I watched TV, those commercials were annoying, only slighly offset by knowing James Garner has had a heart attack from eating too much beef. Moo.
Over at drezner's, goat is what's for dinner.
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