TABC = Totally Asinine Bullshit Commission

Once again, my plans to write an amusing and/or thoughtful blog post were interrupted. But this time, it wasn't because of my own forgetfulness. It was because the TABC did a sting. My boyfriend was arrested. The actual crime? Human error. The charge is selling alcohol to a minor. He spent the night and an unreasonable portion of the next day in jail. I spent the time worrying and trying to find the means to bail him out.

As difficult as it is for me to do so, I do not blame the police for their actions. They are the enforcers, not the writers of the morally repugnant and rationally bankrupt law. My efforts (and there will be significant effort) will be directed at the TABC.

There can be no doubt as to the idiocy and utter lack of efficacy of a law that does not prosecute the wrong-doer. Instead of going after the of-age people that buy alcohol and throw parties for minors, the people that make fake I.D.'s, or the minors that try to fool cashiers, clerks, bartenders and waitstaff into supplying them with alcohol, they have decided to prosecute people like my boyfriend, who would never conscionably supply a minor with alcohol but will make mistakes because they are human. Mistakes of that nature cannot be prosecuted. There needs to be a malicious intent, not a moment of inattention.

One of my plans includes a blog that I and my boyfriend will post on about this subject. I will post updates on our efforts here for the time being.