#21st amendment

December 5, 1933 was the Big Day: Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, thus ending Prohibition.

tell me which one is your fav :3

then a couple general memes related to this :3

this was not part of the assignment but remember to check your voter registration.

Happy Repeal Day! On this day in 1933, the repeal of thirteen years of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.

We’re toasting the occasion today with this August 8, 1932 photograph from a rally of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (W.O.N.P.R.), an organization founded in 1929 by Pauline Morton Sabin (1887-1955) to advocate for the repeal of Prohibition. By 1932, the organization counted over 600,000 members and had a leadership dominated by women who, like Sabin, were wealthy and well-connected wives of American industry leaders.

You ugly bags of mostly water

The first season of Star Trek the Next Generatio nis mostly terrible. Let’s just uhh, this is an episode:

Most season ones of most shows are terrible. We’re still figuring out the characters, still figuring out how the off-stage crew works toeghether (lighting is HARD), still figuring out what works ina plot or doesn’t. (looking at you Buffy)

Star Trek TNG holds a special fuckin place in my heart. It was the first show that was MINE, and I’ve rewatched it a few times and I’m honestly, like, PROUD that this is the show that raised me. I honestly feel like I’m a better person because I stumbled upon reruns of this show after my bio family fell asleep when I was on summer breaks. Without getting too INTO IT this show is uhhh fuckin great

Also I could ramble incoherently for at least 45 minutes about the PLACE that TNG found itself in. It was 20 years after the original series aired, before hte internet was really a thing. Back when fucking 45 minutes of every star trek movie was spent on “THJE REVEAL” of the enterprise. Who was this new captain? TV Guide says he’s bald, what?????????? How is this going to cmpareafdafdsfasfd asOMGGDFAFFD so excited, let’s tune in. Also the cold war is a thing and we’re dealing with the beginnings of a technocracy in our IRL lives, and what does this mean for a show that is SOOO fucking good at criticizing us for our actual bullshit???? LET’S WATCH SEASON ONE TO FIND OUT

But season one, as the kids would say, is a big oof. We got your overt racism, we got your weird sexism but almost feminism, we got your wait are the ferengis supposed to be scary or funny or just back to overtly racist? 

When I rewatch this show with somebody, I always give them the choice of skipping over most of season 1. Let’s get to that season 2 hotness where Riker has a beard and the writers have figured out who the characters are and the actors have figured out how to use that to work with each other

But you lose something with that, so I’m always happy to  

Anyway we watch the first half of season 1 and it’s a little bit pretty YIKES

But then we get to EPISODE EIGHTEEN HOME SOIL

and this is the first Star Trek the Next Generation episode to really feel like a Star Trek the Next Generation episode. I mean that as a high compliment.

Before this we had some weird clonse of the original series episodes, some weired racist episodes. We get one episode with Lwaxana Troi where the only good thing about it is Lwaxana Troi. We get a holodeck episode. We get Datalore which is great but isn’t quite TNG yet.

But HOME SOIL is the first episode that has all of the characters doing the right thing. Captain Picard is fucking CAPTAIN PICARD. Bev has her theories, Data says “Uncertain. Possibility...” a few times. Geordi does more than literally look out the actual fucking window (honestly season one you are giving me a rash). Wes is around but not obviously a fucking audience plant. Worf is well okay not quite there yet but still okay. Tasha is competent and beliveable. It feels like a well oiled machine

You’ve also got yourself a MORAL CONUNDRUM where it’s not quite good-vs-evil, things are complicated, and it’s all a bit of a metaphor meant to be planted in the brains of the children watching (spoiler alert: it worked)

This is Star Trek the Next Generation at its fucking core, for the firs time. It’s not, like, the best episode of all time (hey I, Hugh), but it’s the first SOLID TNG episode in season 1.

There are other good episodes in season 1. I already mentioned the Lwaxana episode and Datalore. The binar episode was memorable even if a little weird if you think about it. And I’m looking forward to a few other episodes in season 1, even if they don’t end up going anywhere (fuckin, alien bugs have infiltrated the highest ranks of star fleet, fucking why wasn’t that a Star Trek movie???!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!!!!?!???!!!??!.)

But my point is, Home Soil is the first real TNG episode, and I don’t think it gets enough credit. It’s dismissed as a clone of Dvil in the Dark (the TOS episode with the rug monsters that Spock mind melds)

And I’ll admint that when I started watching this tonight, I thought it was Quality of Life (the one with the drill robots)

But this episode is the first time I felt like I was home again, and it has me looking forward to everything that I know is about to happen.

Beer paring:

This is a seasonal beer that you really like, but you don’t quite remember liking after it goes out of season. But when the season rolls back around, you’re always PLEASANTLY SURPRISED by it. Oh shit, I forgot how good this is!

This is a 21st Amendment Watermelon beer

In my brain I don’t love this beer, but hot damn if I’m not excited every time I see one on tap again. Not only is it a decent beer by itself, but it means that other summer berers, not to mention fucking summer itself, is on its way. It sorta makes you stop and think and question things a bit (wait beer can be watermelony??) but mostly you like it because it means even better stuff is on its way.

“St. Patrick!!” 3/17/1922

Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, 1896 - 1949. Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015. 

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman's familiar character Mr. DC is in great need of St. Patrick. Evil snakes representing major problems Prohibition cause Washington and frighten Mr. DC. Poison liquor and bootlegging were a direct result of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors. In celebration of the famed St. Patrick who allegedly drove the snakes from Ireland, Mr. DC could use some of St. Patrick's secrets to rid the District of Columbia of its problems.

Happy Repeal Day!

December 5, 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1919, mandated the prohibition on alcohol nationwide.

The Twenty-first Amendment was proposed by Congress on February 20, 1933, and Wisconsin was the second state to ratify the amendment on April 25.