OMG! The Fourth of July falls on a Sunday this year. You know what that means:
. . . thanks to Indiana's outdated alcohol laws, you won't be able to buy your alcoholic beverage of choice in the store on the day of your celebration.
That means -- oh, the humanity -- that we will have to remember to buy the alcoholic beverage of our choice on Saturday. Luckily, we have the Alliance of Responsible Alcohol Retailers going to bat for us. They've launched a statewide campaign "aimed at allowing Sunday carry-out sales and cold beer sales at convenience, drug and grocery stores." This will give us "a freedom of choice that Americans enjoy in 47 other states."
Fine by me. The Sunday ban is a remnant of the blue laws of a bygone era. The banning the sale of some alcohol in some outlets on Sundays doesn't do much to affect social policy, at least not enough to offset the millions lost by our retailers to neighborning states. But my enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that we're going to actually be encouraging people who drink a lot and can't remember to buy their booze a day or two ahead of time.
