At midnight on this day in 1933, Prohibition began to ease away, as beer with a noticeable quantity of alcohol -- a whopping 3.2% -- became, as if by magic...
The absurdity and hypocrisy of Prohibition being precisely mirrored by the abject moral bankruptcy of current US politics is surely no coincidence. But i for one feel comforted by the retreat from a homogenising globalisation. Anything else?