This is another thing that everyone agreed on 25 years ago that we somehow backslid on! Like, we all pretty much universally thought men out of high school dating girls in high school were creeps and losers!

The fact that sports betting is only legal if the counterparty is a megacorporation and you do it by yourself on your phone really feels like the worst possible outcome. It’s like if the only legal way to buy alcohol was doordashing individual forties and juicebox cocktails.

Usually those forms emphasize high risk professions (arms dealer, gambler, liquor store owner), so you feel like you’re filling out a survey at the Mos Eisley cantina

And like, if someone is asked “can I help you?” more then once they are going to take it as a sign they’re not welcome!

Have these execs been in a store lately? What percentage of customers aren’t on the phone, listening to music, or trying to corral their kids?

Grein was raided by the feds for selling booze-making gear and ingredients after a sting operation, leading celebrity attorney Clarence Darrow to come out of semi-retirement to successfully defend him in a case that foreshadowed decades of paraphernalia arrests www.newcity.com/2025/11/05/t...

But Grein himself faced legal trouble. He was also the larger-than-life owner of a popular Loop tavern that turned into a kind of general store during Prohibition, selling pranks and novelties, sauerkraut juice that Grein promoted as a health tonic—and homebrew supplies like hops, malt, and bottles

Another store that isn’t even in their market area…