This Just In: Cartoons are just for kids! Santa's Butt in Maine!

Thanks to my hard-hitting journalism, ahem, and a lawsuit by the MCLU, the residents of Maine will be able to enjoy Santa's Butt Christmas Porter next year. Maine had declared the label, duplicated here, a violation of the "undignified or improper" standard. A similar rule in New York initially prevented a beer label with Eugene Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People," which hangs in the Louvre, because Liberty is topless in the painting. This being a family blog, and since I reside in the Medieval United States, I cannot link to public nudity or to wardrobe malfunctions. But if you want to see the Wikipedia entry, click here.

For those of you unfamiliar with brewing terms, a "butt" is a 126-gallon barrel.