Power hour? Hell, I remember having a power *week*.

Last week. Like, at age 30 1/2. An entire week. Of power.

Man, I gotta get off the sauce. Now, if only the government would tell me to quit drinking the 'shine.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Age 16: "Here you go, here's two tons of metal that can travel at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, now go out with your irresponsible friends and have a blast."

Age 18: "Please remember to vote in the election that decides the next leader of the free world. Yeah, don't worry - P Diddy, Eminem and Paris Hilton will tell you who you should vote for."

Age 20: "Is that, a beer? Put that down!"

It's the same argument they make about bicycle helmut laws for kids: "if it's a law then I can use that excuse to make my kid wear a bike helmut". Shit, who's the effing parent here? My preference is for it NOT to be the guvmint.

John from WuzzaDem

Excellent!

I'm still in shock over the bill that would require cold medicine with pseudophedrine (??) to only be sold provided you present some ID and look to be a certain age.

Combat Meth Act

These guys are missing the solution. If they just lowered the drinking age to 6, then the "power hour" would involve a lot fewer drinks.

These folks are assuming that their kids aren't raving alkys already. By the time I was 21 I had too many fake ID's to count and was sleeping with the preacher's daughter. My parents thought it was kind of funny.

Our country will send you off to die before they'll let you kill yourself with a "power hour."

I do recall drinking 21 drinks on my 21st birthday. Although by no means was it in an hour. I also recall vomiting approximately 12 of those up outside Olympic Gardens Strip Club in Las Vegas before I was able to continue "powering" or at least get a lap dance from an overly tan man, so I think I kinda screwed it up....

I would have to have at least 12 drinks before I would get a lap dance from a guy.

'rite' of passage, not 'right.' Sheesh.

Good post, but come on! This one's not even hard.