Last night...

[lsanderson]

After getting to Walgreen's after the pharmacy closed, I hit Panorama video to take back the previous batch and picked up Shrek2 and the Chronicles of Riddick. I enjoyed 'em both.  I had very low expectations for the Chronicles, and I think it exceeded them. I did not look for a complicated plot or other things I might in a good movie. I just wanted to sit back, watch the action and watch Vin Diesel. Less clothes might have been nice.

The NY Times has a big piece on the smoking ban in New York City bars and restaurants. Many of the prophets of doom have announced that they like the new policy and have not seen business drop. It's worth reading. One caveat, I don't think we're as fashionable here in the miniapple and so won't see the savings from decreased dry cleaning bills.

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The sturm und drang

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Minneapolis has a ban scheduled to go into effect in early March. Dire results are forecast -- not quite The End of the World or At Least Western Civilisation, but amazingly close. Certainly many dire prognostications of closings and other dire consequences as yet not fully fathomed. (Massive traffic fatalities from the extra drive to Wisconsin for example.) At least it's nothing as catastrophic as Gay Marriage!!!

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I don't understand these prognosticators, I really don't. These laws have been instituted all over the US with great success and no dire results. Are they completely unaware of that? Willfully ignoring it? And if so why? I'm just boggled.

MKK

Re: The sturm und drang

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

At least it's nothing as catastrophic as Gay Marriage!!!

Gay married couples don't make me cough, my eyes hurt, or my clothes smell. Unless, of course, they were to smoke in my presence. :)

Actually, gay marriage is not that controversial here compared to some places.

I can sorta see the argument that bar owners invested in owning their business, and worry about their livlihoods. I haven't seen any closed former bars since the law took effect, though, so I'm hoping that smokers just go outside the same way they have to go outside everywhere else.

People probably made a fuss when they first outlawed spitting into spittoons, but civilization somehow managed to muddle through it.