drinking age from 21 to 18 we saw the carnage on the roads thafr and in the middle 1980s raised the drinking age back up as a measure. marijuana s not as dangerous as drinking and driving, but this is social learning and putting of limits on that experiment in colorado and washington. i wonder too what you make of kentucky because the story of the gay marriage debate in this country you know over the last decade has been it went from being a fringe issue to something that if you take a poll nationally right now it s a majority issue. but that s not a majority across the country in every state. i think that s a message in part that kentucky voters were sending yesterday. there s an assumption i think a lot of gay marriage advocates have that this is an inevitability, eventually this will be a majority thing everywhere, it will be a fringe thing to oppose gay marriage. do you think that assumption is accurate? look, it s going to be a federal thing and a regional thing. all these y