Start Hoarding Whipped Cream!

Uh oh. Alcohol-laced whipped cream is on the verge of being banned. Following current logic, anything abused by irresponsible college students must be banned for all.  Back in my military days we called policies like the Four Loko ban, "If one guy craps his pants we all gotta wear diapers."

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The federal government ordered the makers of Four Loko to change its dangerous combination of caffeine and alcohol to something safer. However, it's not just beverages getting the controversial boost, its whipped cream too.

But the whipped cream libertines won't let it go without a fight!

"I think it's awesome, you can throw it on some Jell-O shots. It'd be fantastic," UCF student Bo Frisby said.

Liquor stores around the UCF area said the new form of booze is flying off the shelves.

"I'm not surprised, it's college. I'm not surprised at all actually. I'm actually shocked they didn't come up with it sooner," UCF student John Washington said. (WFTV.COM )

How to Severely Restrict College Drinking Binges
College today is just not that challenging.  We have people graduating that can't think logically or communicate coherently.  It's no surprise that a college degree is just not a big deal anymore.  If you can stagger your way through it stoned, it’s not that great of an achievement

Here’s how you stop college kids from abusing alcohol: Increase the workload and inject some actual academic rigor back into higher education.

A coworker of mine went to the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and he tells a familiar tale. It is perhaps the least “fun” non-religious campus in the US. Why? Because the course work is killer. Take a pause to blow your brains out on alcohol or drugs and you fall behind and eventually flunk out. End of semester is the only party time this school sees.

As a bonus, my solution will also improve the standing of the United States by producing productive college graduates who are actually ready to enter the workforce and contribute to our economic greatness.

What do you think?

America Loko: Housing and Hangovers

This is the stupid state to which our society has fallen...

The aftermath of the party, at which police found students passed out all over the house and rushed nine to the hospital, has renewed calls for bans on the drink Four Loko, which combines as much alcohol as a six-pack of beer and the equivalent of one cup of coffee.

"One girl was sitting on a bench and she fainted, and my friend and I were like, 'Oh my god, oh my god.' We rushed out to help her and I gave her CPR," said one freshman who was at the Oct. 8 party but asked not to be identified. (ABC News - Four Loko)





College kids chug enough caffeinated booze to drop a horse, and people stand in slack-jawed amazement that some were hospitalized.  Dingbat college officials and government nannies pass up an opportunity to punish the kids and teach them a lesson.  Instead, they go after the manufacturer of a legal product.

What do the kids learn?

"I can get drunk and stupid without owning the consequences"

The kids should be arrested and prosecuted for underage drinking.  Parents should demand the firing of university officials who allow this to go on inside campus walls.  And dim bulb politicians like Governor Gregoire should be hounded from office for thinking a ban on Four Loko is a solution .  They've obviously never heard of Red Bull and vodka, Rum and Coke, or Irish Coffee.

The real "problem" here is that the drink is powerful and the alcohol taste is masked by other flavorings.  People get stupid and chug them, resulting in vomiting and passing out.  People did this before these drinks appeared on the market and they will continue doing it the old fashioned way now that the drinks are banned.  You can't fix stupid, on the individual level or at the government level.

I've got a housing hangover, let's get high again

It's no wonder "solutions" such as the four Loko ban are so popular.  These same "adults" cry and howl about those evil predatory lenders who shoved billions of dollars into the hands of irresponsible homebuyers.  These same dolts who decry the housing bubble are now trying to reinflate it.

The deleveraging by our households and businesses is not a pattern to be arrested, but good prudence to be celebrated.

Larger, more liquid corporate balance sheets and higher personal saving rates are the reasonable and right responses to massive government dissaving and unpredictable government policies.

The steep correction in housing markets, while painful, lays the foundation for recovery, far better than the countless programs that have sought to subsidize and temporize the inevitable repricing. (WSJ - Kevin W. Warsh)

Whether you're a clueless college kid or an irresponsible homebuyer, getting high has consequences.