Today is Repeal Day. Today we commemorate the anniversary of the day the good 'ole US of A repealed the 18th Amendment giving Americans the constitutional right to legally consume alcohol. Again.
For those of you who care for a little history lesson, Prohibition was basically declared on January 16th, 1919 in the form of the Volstead Act, which outlawed alcohol as an effort to put an end to what The Women's Christian Temperance Union called the "cause of many, if not all, social ills."
What nobody could have predicted (ahem, except for anyone who knows the value of a dirty martini after a long, tough day at the factory) was that alcohol consumption increased during Prohibition, and organized crime increased right along with it.
SO...we have the lovely ladies featured above to thank for today; a day rich in history, born of indignation, and celebrated long, hard and toxic since 1933.
To these bitter, unsuccessful ladies I raise my glass and toast you--our literal taste makers. And I'm buying drinks for all kvetchette readers today. Just add it to my tab...
For those of you who care for a little history lesson, Prohibition was basically declared on January 16th, 1919 in the form of the Volstead Act, which outlawed alcohol as an effort to put an end to what The Women's Christian Temperance Union called the "cause of many, if not all, social ills."
What nobody could have predicted (ahem, except for anyone who knows the value of a dirty martini after a long, tough day at the factory) was that alcohol consumption increased during Prohibition, and organized crime increased right along with it.
SO...we have the lovely ladies featured above to thank for today; a day rich in history, born of indignation, and celebrated long, hard and toxic since 1933.
To these bitter, unsuccessful ladies I raise my glass and toast you--our literal taste makers. And I'm buying drinks for all kvetchette readers today. Just add it to my tab...
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