Published in: November-December 2009 issue.
Give Up All Hope The state of Alabama has begun to prosecute wine vendors for selling a brand known as Cycles Gladiator due to the picture on its label, which depicts a nude woman and a bicycle. Let the reader judge how prurient this picture is. It first appeared in 1895 on a widely displayed bicycle advertising poster—leading one magazine to run the headline: “Alabama: 19th Centu
