Indiana...always looking backwards

I was afraid this was going to happen. After the US Supreme Court decision last year that said states could not simultaneously allow in-state shipping of wine and prohibit out-of-state shipping of wine to residents, Indiana's house of representatives has passed a bill that will ban all shipping. This is an excellent article that explains how many of Indiana's wineries will be clobbered by this legislation. While other states are opening their borders to out of state shipments, Indiana is closing all shipping down. Ah, the strength of the beer and wine wholesalers...and people go along with it because we're just one notch to the left of Utah when it comes to tolerance of alcohol as an object of commerce. (No offense to our friends in Utah, but they understand the issue and the problem that draconian alcohol laws pose.) This reminds me of how Molly Ivins once described the Texas legislature. She said that when Texans learned that more people were killed by guns than died on the highways in Texas, the response of the legislature was to increase the speed limit so that there would be more highway deaths rather than enact some form of gun control. (No, this is not an invitation to debate on gun control. If you want my opinion on that topic, I agree with Chris Rock--we don't need gun control, we need bullet control. Raise the price of bullets to a few thousand bucks each--that way, you really need to be angry at someone if you're going to pay that kind of money to shoot them.) But at least I've been able to work up a solution for my wine class at IUSB. The properly designated caterer/supplier of alcohol will "hire" me as a server with the appropriate permit to serve alcoholic beverages. Kind of silly, but it works and it's a cheap solution. And it turns out that no one in the administration is anti-drinking. They're just worried about liability issues. That I can deal with. A new temperance movement I'd have some problems with--like the one apparently going on down in Indianapolis.