Newsflash: Drinking + Driving is Not Illegal

Driving while drunk is. There's a big difference, though almost all of the campaigns from groups like MADD deliberately blur the line, sometimes to a degree that is hard to believe. Heck, MADD ceased to have a point in the late 80's when drunk driving was properly repositioned in the public's mind as a bad thing to do. Since then it has basically invented new campaigns to maintain its own relevance and, as a result, is now an organization opposed to alcohol consumption in almost all forms. And they've promoted an environment that makes it very hard for anyone to make a stand against them publicly. Anyway, here's a long but very interesting paper outlining America's movement in this direction. Maybe you don't agree with me, but I think any reasonable person would have to admit that MADD is pretty dishonest about what kind of agenda they are promoting these days.

(Sorry for the non Browns posts, but frankly the Browns are a pretty hard team to write about at the moment.)