Common sense on college campuses--particularly from the administration--is so rare, that it's our duty to celebrate it.  And across America, some 100 college presidents are calling for a return to common sense...and a lower legal age for drinking alcohol.

Note that I didn't say a "lower drinking age." A majority of high school kids are already drinking, and there aren't any kids who want to drink who are going without under the current law.  If you want to drink, you can get a drink.

All our current law does is tell young people "Hey, the laws are stupid. Ignore them."  And they do.  The 21-year-old drinking law is the most violated law since the 55-mph speed limit.  And for the same reason. It's a dumb law.

The premise of the 21-year-old drinking age is that 20 year olds are too stupid to handle a beer.  These are the same 20 year olds who are legally "smart" enough to get married, enter contracts, start their own businesses, borrow tens of thousands of dollars and kill people on behalf of their government.  No rational person can defend such an idiotic argument.

Instead, the Nanny Staters argue that we have to make drinking at 21 illegal to try and stop 16 year olds from drinking.  This makes as much sense as raising the driving age to 21 to keep teens from driving illegally, or making the age limit for R rated movies 30 so 17-year-olds won't sneak into "Superbad."

I've got a better idea. Let's have laws that make sense, and then enforce them!  Let's say to 17-year-olds "you can have a beer NEXT year, and if you're too dumb to wait, you're going to get into big trouble."

The only thing more stupid than a teenager is an adult using a stupid law to try and change teen behavior.