New Poll - Drinking Age

It appears that many of you were impressed enough with Michael Phelps's efforts over the last two Olympics to anoint him the greatest Olympian ever. 45% chose Phelps, who barely edged out Carl Lewis with 40% of the vote. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Paavo Nurmi, and Jesse Owens each took home 5% of the vote, whilst Bjørn Dæhlie, Larissa Latynina, and Mark Spitz were shut out.

On to more important things. As I wrote last week, there has been some rumbling by college presidents that maybe the drinking age should be lowered to 18, and I'm all for it. How about you? I know many of you like the sauce, as well you should, but affinity for booze doesn't necessarily equate to wanting 18 year olds to have even greater access to Mad Dog and Boone's. Many countries have either no legal drinking age or 16, an overwhelming majority of the world has a legal drinking age of 18, nearly all of Canada has a legal drinking age of 19, Japan and Iceland (and a handful of others) put it at 20, while the US is one of the few countries in the world with a drinking age as high as 21. And of course there are some Muslim countries who forbid alcohol altogether. So this week's poll asks: What should the drinking age in the US be? Somewhere under 18? 18? 19? 20? 21? No drinking age (prohibition)?