Bars in NYC to close at 1:00am???

[The Brain]

That's understandable, but what exactly do they expect to happen when the residents are left with absolutely nothing worthwhile to do?

Damn it, we can't keep trying to achieve some puritanical utopia; such a place will never exist. We need some form of vice every now and again to maintain our sanity.

You know what occurs when all measures of decadence are eliminated? Look at what the Taliban was running in Afghanistan; it became under their rule a country where even singing was forbidden. They were a joyless people, which made them easy fodder for any fanatic with a death wish or two to come in and manipulate them.

Is that what they want to duplicate in <i>this</i> country?