DADvocate

Stopping at a local drug store the other day to pick up some wine, I found this bottle covered with a sticker from MADD. This wasn't the wine I planned on buying but I bought it in order to blog about the sticker. The sticker reminds the buyer that it is a misdemeanor to purchase alcoholic beverages and then give them to a minor. Damn! There goes another source of income.

Does any one not know this? Later I went to the grocery store and find another sticker pasted to the end of the check out lane. A quick Internet search found a MADD page where MADD has a program where they "approach" merchants and ask permission to place the stickers. I wonder how many merchants have the nerve to say "No."

That would be looked upon by MADD as promoting drunken driving and underage drinking.

Do we really need some do-gooders shoving things in our face at every turn? Apparently so. Now in Butler County, Ohio (just north of Cincinnati), if you order take-out or home delivered pizza, you expected to help find deadbeat parents who are behind in their child support.

Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.

The idea came to Cynthia Brown, executive director of the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency, while she was ordering pizza.

"It suddenly dawned on me that most people running from the law don't eat out, they order pizza," said Brown, whose county is north of Cincinnati.

How long will it take until no one cares any more because we've been beaten over the head for so long by all these misguided social engineers?

I long for the day when getting a pizza was getting a pizza. Or, you could buy a simple bottle of wine without having to tussle with a Carrie Nation wannabe.

Give it a break, people, try enjoying life a little.