A Vote for Damnation

In a disappointing development, South Carolina has voted for the free pour.

The unofficial Prohibition Party is against "free" anything. As long as the minibottle was the legal way of serving liquor, South Carolinians had a distinct measure of the increments their souls were being meted out to the Enemy. Now, as one voter put it, ". . . if you know the bartender, you might order a single but end up getting a double or a triple."

Home distillers (of which there are many in South Carolina) will certainly suffer, as their backwoods consumers can get, with a little wheedling and friendly conversation, much more "hoochie pop" than they were previously allotted.

We will, of course, pray for the misguided.