"By all means get drunk once in a while"

Is this my Puritan background showing, or is this not best advice for a government minister (Jack McConnell, Labour's "First Minister of Scotland") to be giving to an audience of school kids? I mean, don't even Lutherans have a problem with encouraging binge drinking for school kids?This may be old news for some of our readers Across the Water, but I came across it for the first time in an article here (hat tip to NRO's Corner a few days back). In it, Gillian Bowditch offers a few reasons why you might want to go a little harder on the "don't get drunk" advice with your daughters than your sons. It turns out that in drinking, men and women are (surprise!) different.

Originally posted at Here We Stand