I'M BACK--TANNED, RESTED, AND READY. We had a great time in the Gulf Islands, which really are a lot like the San Juans, except that they don't accept good ol' Amurrican greenbacks. A two-dollar coin? Please! But we slept and ate and drank and kayaked and suffice it to say that most of our wedding-related stress just melted away. Oh, and the wedding was good, and successful, too.

Which brings us back to the news of the day, which happened in my absence (the nerve!): the 11th Circuit upheld an Alabama ban on the sale of sex toys. It's not illegal to possess them in Alabama, or buy them out of state or over the internet, but Alabamians can't go to Billy Bob's House of Phallus and buy a latex artificial member. Dahlia Lithwick gives the legal whys and wherefores, and Thrasymachus details the Alabama legislature's deliberations over the issue.

I'm waiting for David Brooks to approvingly cite this issue as one of the good and proper differences between "red" and "blue" states.
- posted by thegusdad @ 8/06/2004 11:45:00 AM