I occasionally wake up in a cold sweat when I think about some of the jackass stuff I did when I was young, but none makes me shudder like the -- fairly rare -- times I got behind the wheel with a skinful. And I'm not thinking about the risks I put myself to. One of the less charming things about youth is the way your indifference to tomorrow seems to extend to EVERYBODY ELSE'S tomorrow, too. Not malevolent, just completely oblivious.

That said, this thread seems to confirm the obvious: drunk driving's a pisspoor idea. So's doping. So we have the same old solutions: ever more drastic punishment. A sense of retribution's about all there is to recommend it. We've got to get more creative about our responses to a lot of things.