On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> At 06:57 AM 6/11/01, Rich wrote:
> >John said:
> >
> > > P.S. Do you really want to use the likelihood of an object to kill
> > > somebody as the standard by which we justify government regulations?
> >
> >Isn't that entirely sensible? Or do you propose government regulation of
> >everything so, perhaps, there should be a seven day waiting period on
> >ownership of bananas? Or total deregulation, in which case I look
> >forward to owning a supernova trigger because, you know, that'd be
> >kinda cool.
>
>
> Since alcohol is implicated in half of traffic fatalities and a
> significant number of acts of violence, how much regulation do you
> think should be put on its availability and use?
Well, I certainly think that 19-year-olds trying to buy at Chuy's should
get busted, yessiree....
For those of you who haven't been following the news about our president's
children, they got busted at a certain Tex-Mex establishment in Austin,
one for trying to use a fake ID, one for being a minor in possession of
alcohol. For some reason, Jenna is more easily recognized than Barbara
around here, so Barbara got served while the server refused to serve
Jenna, but this was Barbara's first alcohol-related offense in Austin.
Apparently Jenna ended up crying in front of the police about not being
able to go out and do stuff that normal college students do. (Everything
I've read about this was in the Austin American-Statesman.)
Personally, I had more sense at 19 than to try to get served in a
restaurant -- with one exception, the few times I drank illegally, someone
over 21 bought the stuff and it was taken to some location where I was not
likely to get busted, and the one exception was about 3 cups of Shiner
[particular Texas beer] poured out of pitchers purchased by a prof at a
restaurant/bar near campus. The salsa there wasn't bad, either. :)
Julia
