EIN PROSIT!. Insta Pundit reports that German brewer Spaten have donated mass quantities of ausgezeichnetes Bier to troops who are serving or have served in Iraq. Only problem: we're back to where we were in 1972. when eighteen-year-olds could do close-order drill and carry a gun, but couldn't splice the main brace (striving for inter-service amicability.) Funny story about that drinking-age change: it took place in Wisconsin the weekend after the state high school basketball tournament. I wonder if the Governor at the time had an intuition about the outcome. The high school I had recently graduated from won the tournament, and even in those days, it had a reputation as a place with a lot of heavy drinkers.