Sunday booze

A bill is now moving through the Georgia Assembly that would allow communities to vote on whether they want to allow Sunday alcohol sales in convenience and grocery stores. In the past, former Gov. Sonny Perdue, who doesn't drink, vowed to veto it to appease religious groups.

But new Gov. Nathan Deal, whom you can just look at and know he drinks some hard stuff from time to time, says he'll sign it into law if it hits his desk, immediately setting up a showdown between the governor and the right-wingers who put him into office. The religious folks vow to fight it.

This should be fun to watch ... especially over a cold beer.

You know you're getting old when ...

While sitting in a restaurant the other day where folks can order beer if they so choose, I noticed the sign that informs folks they can't buy beer if they were born after July whatever, 1986.

July 1986. What? You know you're old when people who were BORN when you were in high school are now old enough to buy alcohol. Heck, I'm old enough to have fathered a child old enough to buy alcohol ... providing, of course, that the cute blonde sophomore who sat in front of me in Mrs. Jones' science class would have ever consented to going out with and, subsequently, falling in love with me. The fact that she wouldn't even talk to me put a hurdle in those plans.