Being slightly over the age of 21, I really don't care much about the legal drinking age.  I guess there's a debate raging right now on college campuses about lowering it to 18 again.

There's certainly a logical argument for doing so.  After all, in our society, we consider an 18 year old to be a legal adult.  Where does the state get off telling an adult citizen that through no action of their own, they are yet prohibited from engaging in a legal behavior? It doesn't matter that 18 year olds have been known to be pretty dumb.  

Plenty of 30 year olds are pretty darn stupid, too.  Age doesn't always bring wisdom.  Sometimes it just brings dementia. 

After all, the university presidents who want to lower the drinking age have not impressed me at all with the argument they have chosen to pursue this agenda.  Instead of arguing for American's rights, and against the over reach of the federal government which put the current legal drinking age in place-- raise the age in your state or we'll cut off your federal highway funds-- in what universe is that not blackmail?--they are using the nanny-state-non-argument that lowering the age will cut down on binge drinking.

No it won't.

Kids don't binge drink because the legal limit is 21, they do it because they are morons.  Isn't alcohol poisoning Darwinism at it's best?

Why is it that some people (by "some people" I mean liberals), instead of reaching for a rock solid, Constitutional truth, would rather grab at the fluffy, gossamer of 'we're only doing it for your own good' ?

What's really going on here is not a push for the liberty of  American adults but a bunch of college administrator's who are trying to preserve as much of the nanny state as possible while avoiding the necessity of answering uncomfortable questions when their students die of stupidity. 

"Hey, if we can lower the drinking age, it's not our responsibility when Party Girl and Campus Bob die of alcohol poisoning!  Let's do it!"

I was legal at 18 or 19 back in the utopian days of the late seventies.  Binge drinking and alcohol poisoning existed even in those happier times, so I know for a fact that their argument doesn't hold water.

I think the adult prohibition on drinking should be abolished, but that college administrations should still be held accountable when their students get sick or die on campus.

After all, we hold bars accountable for the overindulgence of their patrons, and a bar's purpose is to sell you drinks.  An institution of higher learning is supposed to educate you, so if you get sick or die from your own bad choices, that seems to me to be proof that the school falling down on the job.

I also think we should raise the age of legal adulthood to 21.

Think about it; we won't let them drink but we let them vote??

Now that's just stupid.