Every year, states across the nation initiate a new "click it or ticket" program aimed at forcing people to wear seat belts. Removing the God-given right to have open containers of alcohol in a moving car was bad enough, but this type of nanny-state, government-knows-best attitude frankly makes me sick to my stomach.

If people are too dumb to wear seat belts, I say let them alone. It is this type of legislature that shallows the gene pool and drags this country down into mediocrity. Prior to these seat belt laws, the United States was an unrivaled economic powerhouse. Now we are simply real estate agents for the Japanese and Germans.

Leave them alone and let Darwin sort them out. What economy is poised to kick our collective ass, I ask you? Germany. And do you know why? Germany understands the Darwin principles driving economics. Where else do you get served litre sized beers before being put on the highway and told to drive as fast as you damn well please? If that doesn't winnow out the weak genes, nothing will.

Here in the US, the advent of "drive through" liquor stores is a step in the right direction, but I fear that step is too little, too late.