Looks like booze is the next area of intense over-regulation for the feds. I’m no expert but just my minimal exposure to a small portion of the healthcare branch has me convinced that every single federal agency has the same marching orders right now: take over.
yeah. that would explain a lot.
I didn’t know who the CDC is talking to but even I don’t know anyone who “downs eight mixed drinks within a few hours, four times a month.” Do you? Maybe Snooki. Possibly Michelle Obama.
Oh, I see now that as I read through the article America Is Drunk, they are talking about young people. Obama voters.
“This is what is happening. It is critical we determine why it is happening… My theory is that Americans are on a flight from reality. Faced with painful facts—including the precarious state of the economy, the gathering storm represented by militant Muslims, in general, and Iran, in particular, the crumbling state of marriage in this country, the fact that our borders are being overrun, and the fact that our health care insurance system is in shambles (to name just a smattering of the troubles we desperately need to address)—we as a nation are drinking, drugging, gambling, smoking, Facebooking, YouTubing, Marijuaning, Kardashianing, Adderalling, Bono-ing (as in thinking of Chaz’s sad flight from reality as good), Prozacking, Twittering, and Sexting ourselves into oblivion.”
Now it makes sense.
not opposed to the occasional youthful bender
An unerring instinct for bullshit!