Current Event #1

The beer "Dirty Bastard" is banned in Alabama while the state still allows alcoholic products such as Fat Bastard and Raging Bitch to be sold. The ban is said to be in order to protect children since the beverage would be sold in grocery stores as well as liquor stores.

I completely disagree with this decision. I understand that we should take certain precautions to protect children, which AL also did when they banned a beer with a nude nymph on the bottle, but if you’re going to ban one, ban them all. The board is CONSIDERING holding a meeting to ban the other products, but nothing has been decided. However, I personally see no point in banning them all. If a child is old enough to read the word, he or she has probably heard the word before. And if your main focus is to shield a child, what about the trashy tabloids at the check-out lines? Some of those are inappropriate. Do we ban those as well? If you don’t want your kid seeing profanity on an alcohol label, don’t buy it and don’t let them walk down the alcohol aisle.

Associated Press."Alabama bans beer over dirty name". foxnews.com. 19 April 2012. Web. 19 April 2012.