Friday, August 3, 2007

Maybe France gets it right?

My latest column for the Eagle I tried to get away from the post-socialist gloom that hovered over my last few efforts. Instead I thought I'd take a look at its biggest public health problem -- you know, something a little lighter.

I admit this is also a veiled criticism of America’s immaturity about alcohol. Where we've created a category of second-class citizenship for people of a certain age and have Puritan graffiti marring our Constitution for all time. But living in Russia, it is hard not to notice how alarming it can be when a nation goes too far the other way.

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