“Honestly, I think the green movement is going to damage us in ways we won’t be able to comprehend fully until we’re 60 years on the other side of it.”

And:

“The ecomommies…let’s just say I very much look forward to the day when I get to punch one of them in the t1ts.”

Yeah, I’m doing all my best writing in email.  Sorry.

Friend of TLIH, Michele Catalano, has another article up at PJ, on adults providing minors with alcohol and the inevitable legal/judicial ramifications.  In the comments is the inevitable, “if someone is old enough to serve why are they not old enough to drink?”  I am soooo tired of that argument, so I took it up with Ted in IM:

HazelStone: can you tell me how military service and legally buying a drink are at all equivalent?
HazelStone: i am Tired of that stupid comparison
tedbronson: haha
tedbronson: I think it comes down the thougt that if a man can die but not drink, then we are sending children to fight our wars
HazelStone: not if they bloody well choose service for themselves
HazelStone: we ain’t DRAFTING them
tedbronson: all volunteer makes a diff, yes
tedbronson: however
tedbronson: in san diego and san antonio, kids can drink on post to keep them from going across to mexico
tedbronson: double standard
HazelStone: sigh
HazelStone: it’s weird
HazelStone: i recall my only ambition for a weekend when I was a teenager, was to get buzzed and get felt up by a cute guy
tedbronson: yup  (pretty sure he’s not agreeing to the “cute guy” part  -Ed.)
HazelStone: and now, it seems so very stupid
tedbronson: the question is, if you can trust a kid to drive a sixty ton tank
tedbronson: why cant you trust him to be responsible with a beer
HazelStone: different
HazelStone: not equivalent
HazelStone: driving a 60 ton tank doesn’t alter your perception, reflexes, motor skills
tedbronson: no
tedbronson: either he’s is a responsible adult or he isn’t
HazelStone: no, because even one beer adds alcohol to your system, alters the above
HazelStone: driving a tank just adds adrenaline
HazelStone:
tedbronson: I could make the argument that tank driver have limited vison etc
HazelStone: haha, but you know it isn’t equivalent
tedbronson: but an ‘adult’ isnt going to be driving a tank tanked either

I know you lot have an opinion on this.  Let’s hear it.