Yale Mafia blogwatch

The Chairman of the Party of the Right lands one:

This weekend I was listening to KRFX (103.5 FM) and heard an PSA from Heineken urging parents not to give alcohol to their children until they turn 21, "even if it's in your home, even if it's supervised."

I know these PSAs are just liability buffer, but it's a misleading ad to run in Colorado nonetheless. The law clearly states that parents may provide alcohol to their children on private property. It's a sensible policy that allows parents to "acclimatize" their kids to alcohol and responsible drinking behavior. This country would be a lot better off if parents were the first point-of-contact for alcohol consumption instead of the unsupervised, underground binge drinking that surrounds high schools and colleges. Colorado's laws do practical things to limit alcohol abuse (unlike MADD's prohibitionist utopianism) but more importantly they empower parents to raise their children as they see fit.

Next time you head to the store, skip the Heineken and pick up some Coors.

Meanwhile, the Rookie offers evidential support for my deeply held belief that owning a pet can be a kind of pathology:

SEOUL (Reuters) - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.

Now she is happy, minus $50,000 and her house, and owner of five cloned Booger puppies.

"It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again," McKinney told a news conference in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies -- all of whose names include the word Booger.

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"As of today, we are at the stage of receiving orders from anywhere in the world," RNL CEO Ra Jeongchan said.

RNL has said it expected to clone about 100 dogs next year and for the price to drop as technology improves.

If your best-case scenario following the death of a pet is to clone it, it's time to reexamine what it is about the pet-owner relationship you're responding to.