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California Is Different (Idle Words)#

02.06.2003

California Is Different

There is a plaque in the men's room on the third floor of the San Diego Westin hotel with a stern reminder that alcohol can do permanent and irretrievable damage to unborn children, and that pregnant women SHOULD NOT drink, under any circumstances. It is a pretty arresting plaque.

Was there some kind of problem here with weak-bladdered playboys, besozzling the local expectant mothers with Mai Tais? Is there a prostate-cancer awareness plaque in the women's room? Did those goofy Californians pass another referendum?