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The man whose drunk driving resulted in the death of my grandfather is a free man today.

And you know, I don’t really have a problem with drinking and driving. It’s not a choice I would make for myself - I know my limits and I stick to them. There have been occasions where I knew I wasn’t fit for driving after having a drink or two, and I did the appropriate thing - had someone sober drive for me.

But the consequences of your own actions should weigh equally with the poor decisions you’ve made.

The law used to be that a person who was drinking was less responsible for their actions than a non-drinking person. I can understand the origins of that reasoning, but I think that the current idea that you need to be more responsible before you become impaired is more compelling.

Yet I don’t agree with all of the pre-event legislation on drunk driving these days. States are continually under pressure from the federal government to lower their blood alcohol level limits for legal driving and enforce zero-tolerance policies. Zero-tolerance policies are backhanded ways of calling you a criminal before you’ve committed a crime.

Comparatively, federally suggested high limits on blood alcohol content are tantamount to jailing people for shoplifting when they bring a large empty bag into a store - No crime has yet been committed, and still you’re going to jail. You are also denied the ability to shop every again, regardless of whether you intended to steal anything.

Obviously I think it’s unfortunate that anyone should have to be hurt or killed because I wouldn’t want to stop a drunk driver from doing something they would regret. Instead, I would happily see jail terms for killers, such as the man who killed my grandfather, extended indefinitely. He should have thought of the consequences of his driving drunk and taken them much more seriously. If instead of a piddance of a jail term, he had been threatened with a life sentence - for that’s what he took from my grandfather - he might have thought twice about using his keys.

Riley had his 6-month checkup today. Of particular interest are these details:

Weight: 19 pounds 13.8 ounces.
Length: 29 inches.

I’ve been experiencing weird server load today. I want to blame it on the spammers, the “shemale” site pimpers, since I’ve been getting an unusual revival of spam through the comment form lately. They don’t know when to give up.

I guess they figure if they pound the site hard enough, eventually, I’ll turn off the comment filering to save processor time and that’ll let them through. Not likely.

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