Finally, this story featured in Overlawyered reminds me to carp about the way that college students are being babysat these days.



Key quote:



"Pressured by University of Wisconsin officials and by a federal campaign against underage and binge drinking, 24 taverns near the university's Madison campus agreed voluntarily a year and a half ago to stop cheap-drink promotions on weekends. Can you guess the sequel? A Minneapolis law firm has now swooped down with a class-action antitrust suit filed on behalf of three named UW-Madison students."



Okay, if you wouldn't treat them like overgrown children in the first place. . . I understand that college students drink. Ya know what, so do a lot of people. They are ADULTS. You cannot expect me to believe that a person can be astute enough to analyze Nietzsche one day, and yet be hypnotized by peer pressure into involuntarily drinking six margaritas the next.



I understand the drinking age is 21. I also understand the federal government blackmailed the states by tying the raising of the drinking age to 21 with federal highway funds. It may be good politics to be concerned about reigning in college students, particularly in a college town. But we really need to pick an age at which adulthood starts and learn to LET GO ALREADY.