You might want to drink late too

Let me see if I have this right. Legislative leaders, at least some of them, want to open the bars until 4:00 am during the GOP convention, so that our visitors will have a good impression of our city and/or area.

I suspect it would. Politicians [and maybe GOP politicians in particular] expect communities to surrender whatever values they may have to spur progress and the people who can bring progress about which is what they imagine themselves to be.

But Phyllis Kahn who seems to be promoting most of this balked at a temporary lifting of the smoking ban.

Go figure.

[Of course, having to go to a combination to nominate McCain and laud seven years of W is probably just cause to really drink.]

I would just as soon let the visitors see us as we are, worried about the effects around-the-clock drinking can have on society, concerned about how late we make our hospitality workers work, and totally intolerant.