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A not-so-Super Sunday

Why, hello there, reader. Big plans for the weekend? Well, before you let the crazy train leave suburban station, there are a couple of things you need to be aware of.

First, the U.S. House of Representatives would prefer it if you didn’t spend your welfare check on strippers. They passed a bill that “would bar welfare recipients from spending their benefits in strip clubs and casinos,” saying that kind of behavior is better paid through Republican donor parties.

And if that wasn’t weird enough, guess who’s going after child sex trafficking? No, the Catholic Church. (I know, right?) A team of nuns have alerted over 200 hotels in the Indianapolis area so they’ll know what child sex looks like for the Super Bowl. Nobody’s sure why the Super Bowl would be a banner day for pederasty — maybe because nothing sets the mood like the Puppy Bowl — but, it looks like we’re gonna have to settle for nachos and beer this year.

It’s the happiest of hours somewhere

Despite having a rich and fine tradition of drunken antics, drunken racists, drunken idiots and drunken revelry, happy hour does not exist in Massachusetts. Well, more specifically, happy hour specials don’t exist in Massachusetts.

That may now be a thing of the past.

Two state senators, one a Democrat, one a Republican, set aside their political differences to help the most important part of the economy: booze. In the old set-up, a state laws prevent discounts on alcoholic drinks in restaurants if they’re specials of the daily or hourly variety; however, casinos were allowed to serve free alcohol.

The newly passed amendment now allows restaurants outside of casinos to serve the same promotions that casinos are able to serve. Free booze for all!