Remember when restaurants and other businesses used to have signs reading "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"?  You probably don't see such signs anymore.  Business are afraid of lawsuits.  Fifty years ago, such policies were sometimes used to exclude blacks, but mostly such policies were used to maintain standards in the place of business.  You wouldn't want to serve people wearing T-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops in a fancy restaurant, or customers who were noisy or disruptive. Fast-forward to 2015, when the New York Times has published an article about drug addicts who have taken over a local McDonald's: McDonald’s, on Eighth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, is a throwback to a seedier era in New York... within a three-minute walk there are a clinic that dispenses methadone, the substitute opioid used to treat heroin addiction; two outpatient substance-abuse programs; and a needle...(Read Full Post)