re: #41 Shiplord Kirel

Btw, Lubbock voters approved alchohol sales for “off-premise consumption” in Saturday’s election. This means you will finally be able to buy booze in town and take it with you. Lubbock had been dry for the entire 100 years of its existence, though “by the drink” sales (bars, restaurants, and saloons) have been legal since about 1970.
7-11 managers and supermarket execs are ecstatic, while the usual suspects predict a coming age of drunkenness, debauchery, and ruin.

Our governor is promoting the extension of hours for bars, allowing them to close at 4:00 am instead of 2:00 am, and allowing stores to sell alcohol on Sunday beginning at 10:00 am instead of 12:00 noon. It’s her solution to the state’s nosediving economy.

I guess that’s one way to get through a recession: encourage drunkeness.