bluenosed

Amusingly enough, one of the new board members is Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the notoriously bluenosed book-banning organization Moms for Liberty and the wife of the then-chairman of the Florida Republican Party, Christian Ziegler.

The letters cited the antique and long-discredited 1873 statute known as the Comstock Act after its bluenosed progenitor.

“You Should Probably Leave” is an impressively subtle, catchy song about fraught sexual negotiation that country radio might be too bluenosed to play.

But here in Washington, historians say, a utopian if not quite bluenosed spirit — prominent in the early wave of pioneer settlement and still present today — kept a hint of the temperance spirit alive.

They park themselves semi-permanently on the Internet where, despite the best efforts of the law and bluenosed flaggers, they prove the wisdom of Colette’s observation that not everything in life is better if it’s free.