{"id":8173,"date":"2014-01-28T05:13:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/tobacco-wackery-in-tempe\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T05:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:13:51","slug":"tobacco-wackery-in-tempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/28\/tobacco-wackery-in-tempe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco-Wackery in Tempe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Churchill's<\/a>Last week I quit my desert outpost and headed West to Tempe in quest of books and conversation.  When in town I often stop at Churchill's<\/a>, off of Mill Avenue, near ASU, for a cigar. <\/span><\/p>\n

But things had changed since my last visit.  The outdoor tables in front of the store had been moved to the curb.  When I asked the man on duty why, he said that a city ordinance demanded it.  It is permissible  to smoke in the store and at the curb, but not in front of the doors of the smoke shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that's crazy, but worse is to come.  When I asked the man whether I could smoke in the shop, he said I could, as long as I remained there for the duration of my smoking, it being illegal to walk a few feet with a lit cigar from the shop to the tables at the curb.  I was going to do it anyway except that not only would I be subject to a fine, but the shopkeeper as well. To protect him, I complied with the absurd law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here then we have yet another illustration of the lunacy of the contemporary liberal loon.  There is no common sense on the Left, no wisdom, nothing that could be called good judgment or reasonableness.  What there is is extremism and misplaced moral enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n

A liberal is the kind of moral and intellectual idiot who has no problem with the legalization of marijuana and partial-birth abortion, but gets his moral hackles up over a bit of highly diluted sidestream smoke in the vicinity of a — wait for it — SMOKE shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

At some point, self-induced idiocy becomes morally censurable.   I'd say that here we are beyond that point.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last week I quit my desert outpost and headed West to Tempe in quest of books and conversation.  When in town I often stop at Churchill's, off of Mill Avenue, near ASU, for a cigar.  But things had changed since my last visit.  The outdoor tables in front of the store had been moved to … Continue reading “Tobacco-Wackery in Tempe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}