http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/02/05/city-wants-to-ban-malt-liquor-and-box-wine-downtown Comments On: City Wants to Ban Malt Liquor Sales Downtown by Sarah Mirk en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss b) The last time our country tried prohibition, we got the mafia. What's the city version of that? Diet mafia? Jersey Shore?
c) This is class bias, pure and simple. Poor folk? Fuck you. Middle class? Grab that bottle of Shiraz and gulp away.
d) The vast, VAST majority of these bottles and cans are bought for legit purposes (ie: the are brought home to one of the 3,000 SRO hotel rooms and drank there rather than on the sidewalk). If something is misused in a criminal manner 0.01% of the time, do you ban it? We would have to ban cars, guns, spray paint and glass tubes if that were acceptable logic.
Posted by Anonymos Alcoholic]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:57:04 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by pork chop]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:33:52 -0800 Portland Mercury
MD, you should start calling yourself a PowerBlogger TM. (You'll have to trademark it, of course).
@Bret, you're clearly some kind of genius.
Posted by Sarahfina]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:55:56 -0800 Portland Mercury
Now he is complaining about the PBA (Portland Business Alliance) being involved somehow. Of course they are, however this is a good thing. Portland is maturing into a real city and the children of its forgotten past continue to complain. Matt, again, I ask you to please grow up and stop abusing your "power" as a "blogger".
Posted by BretBernhoft]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:28:55 -0800 Portland Mercury I live downtown and will be damned if I have start crossing a bridge to buy wine.

Kids living on the street drink because they're lives suck. "What's that? I can't buy a can Steel Reserve? Suddenly my mental illness has disappeared. And I have forgotten about all of those times my older brother bad touched me." This is not going to happen.

Try harder.
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Posted by Matthew D]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:18:45 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Blogs~threat to real news]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:36:52 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Matt Davis]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:24:47 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by OLSiSi]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:59:27 -0800 Portland Mercury
Are gentiles allowed to drink Joose?
(I know, bad joke)
Posted by Blabby]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:50:37 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by alainb1]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:42:24 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by luckymike]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:40 -0800 Portland Mercury
thanks for the correction. I checked and, yes, there are different standards for wine. I updated the post with the correct amount - 5.75 percent for malt liquor and 13.5 percent for wine.
Posted by s.mirk]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:22:25 -0800 Portland Mercury
The sophisticated street drinker with a discerning palette prefers spigots from box shaped paper bags. It's a well known fact.
Posted by BlackedOut]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:14:19 -0800 Portland Mercury
Of course, I'm only opposed to bans that affect me: The boxed wine one would and I've bought some downtown on my way home from work, but I've never bought a single can except in a bar.
Posted by Matthew D]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:31 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by DemonJuice]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:59:07 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Number Six]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:55:00 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Number Six]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:53:57 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Graham]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:47:55 -0800 Portland Mercury