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Brickbat: Stick Shift

Charles Oliver | 1.19.2015 6:00 AM

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Russia has banned people with "mental disorders" from getting driver's licenses. Among those affected by the ban are transgender persons, fetishists, exhibitionists, voyeurs, "pathological" gamblers and kleptomaniacs.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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