[QUOTE=Blank Slate]
The same can be said for texting and driving.
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I hear GTA V will feature an in-car texting system. You can also apply makeup to the dead hooker in the passenger seat while driving on the freeway…in the HOV lane!!
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
MADD is one of those organizations that nobody ever gives any shite too because, hey c’mon it’s made up of greiving mothers and they want to protect kids! But fuck that and fuck them. Yes, people dying is bad and blah blah blah but these self important harpies are the reason you can get a DUI after two beers, which is crazy in and of itself. I wish someone would finally tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up.
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Well, I think the mothers are long gone. It now is a cash cow with professional management. There instructions are: “Don’t kill the cash cow.”
[QUOTE=Lust4Life]
I like the term and I’m going to steal it.
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You’ve never seen “offenderati” before? Conservative bloggers use it all the time as a term against PC agitators (not to mention a full 80% of people who say publicly that “X is racist” or “Y is homophobic,” etc. - X and Y being events or such, not people).
[QUOTE=Zoe]
What’s the big deal about not driving drunk in America? Have you no self-control? Do you think it makes you cool and so that’s how you prove you’re a man? You climb in a big piece of metal and hurl yourself through space at seventy miles an hour or more without being fully in control of where that metal is going?
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Actually it’s the exact opposite: I DO have self control. Gobs of it really, but I know my limits and .05 or even .08 BAC don’t even begin to nudge them. I don’t appreciate a sanctimonious group of busy bodies hiding behind a thin veil of grief working to punish anyone who dares take a sip of Demon Alcohol and operate a vehicle. MADD’s mission smacks more of Carry Nation than it does of any kind of public safety movement. Even the founder Candy Lightner quit the organization because of it’s increasing neo-prohibitionist bent.
As to proving that I’m a man, well, no. That’s what the guns are for. 
I agree that if there were some federally mandated test that determined degree of sleepiness and outlawed driving in excess of the limit, no one would be calling for the death penalty if someone killed another while Driving While Sleep Deprived.