A scant 84 years after Prohibition, Kansas may allow full-strength booze to be sold in grocery stores

The year 1933 was a great one for America. It’s considered the point when the country began to recover from the Great Depression and, not coincidentally, it’s the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt repealed Prohibition. He was a true man of the people.

In many ways, we’re still rebuilding from that national nightmare. Ernest and Julio Gallo started their wine empire in 1933, for one thing. Despite the efforts and sacrificed lives of dozens of freedom fighters, their vile grape still finds its way into the kitchens of provincial housewives all over America, who splash that sickly whimper of a drink into the glasses of their fellow book-club members on muggy Saturday afternoons while they talk about romance novels with stories as trite as their hooch. My liver constricts to think of it. So now mark this day, fellow boozers! Kansas might finally start selling full-strength beer! In 2017!