S&G - An Abbreviated Version

I see where, once again, some shit-fer-brains politition is reviving the old canard, "If they're old enough to die for their country they should be allowed to drink."

Look, dickhead - there is absolutely nothing in the standard military enlistment contract that specifies maturity - just age. Our nation's institutes of higher learning have really shown just how sophisticated and mature these 18 - 22 year olds are when given access to alcohol, haven't they?

The one solution to this (and I believe it's the only solution for now) is to allow them to drink on base at the EM or NCO clubs, where the bar staff and their peers can keep them in check.

If they're on base there's no question of getting back - they could get quietly blitzed and have their mates take them back to the barracks and tuck them in. Most would just have two or three and call it a night (once the novelty wore off). In the meantime, they can get fake ID's like everyone else.

In other news, I see where Wachovia Corp. has apologized because there are two banks in their history that had ties to slave owning. Of course, these two banks have been bought, merged, sold, re-merged and bought again by the time Wachovia got hold of them, but they had to go through the effort to locate this (and I would presume the name and sex of each employee of those banks and of each slave associated with them) because Chicago and Philly require "full disclosure" on this in order to do business with them.

Excuse the fuck outta me? What is the point of this exercise? There's only two things I can think of - denying companies business on this basis or straight-out extortion. Can there possibly be a legitimate reason for this?