And just when you think things couldn't get worse for Isiah Thomas...

[Michael Echan]

This just hasn't been Thomas' decade, has it? ::) It's a marvel that he's even able to put on a fake smile at all.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/7722304/Report:-Son-of-Knicks-coach-arrested-in-Bloomington?MSNHPHMA

Also, it's not like such behavior is unique to Thomas' kid, but for cryin' out loud, wouldn't you have the common sense to keep a low profile when your pop isn't exactly a shining star?

 

[Write-brained]

It'll be worse once they fire his ass ... if they fire his ass ...

And I'm sure that kid is a real peach.

 

[Chi City 81]

It'll be worse once they fire his ass ... if they fire his ass ...

Why? Every time he's been fired, he's found a better job elsewhere.

 

[GB-Hack]

Isiah for President! You know that's the next logical move......

 

[forever_town]

wouldn't you have the common sense to keep a low profile when your pop isn't exactly a shining star?

Obviously not. Besides, it is Isiah Thomas's kid we're talking about here.

 

[Michael Echan]

wouldn't you have the common sense to keep a low profile when your pop isn't exactly a shining star?

Obviously not. Besides, it is Isiah Thomas's kid we're talking about here.

touche

 

[Gold]

exactly how would you have common sense if Isiah Thomas is your father?

 

[slappy4428]

Oh Isiah....

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Oh Isiah....

Hey, slap.
NOW is the time in that ongoing Freep flashback series for them to re-run "Letter To Joshua," I'd say.

 

[heyabbott]

While Isiah Thomas is an unredeemable failure of a human; a depraved, vile and villainous piece of walking damp excrement, all his son did was have an underage drink while at college. Hardly the stuff that calls into question his parenting skills or mal-formed genes passed down from a defective father.

 

[Bill Brasky]

While Isiah Thomas is an unredeemable failure of a human; a depraved, vile and villainous piece of walking damp excrement, all his son did was have an underage drink while at college. Hardly the stuff that calls into question his parenting skills or mal-formed genes passed down from a defective father.

Agreed. A 19-year-old sneaking into a bar, having a couple of drinks and getting into a fight...my God, that probably happens a couple of times a night in every college town in the U.S.
This speaks to a larger issue. Why on earth is it illegal for 18 to 21 year olds to drink in bars? Why should a person have the rights granted to every adult U.S. citizen except for one small one? And is it good for a system of laws to have a rule that pretty much every one agrees is a joke? Matter of fact, one could argue that the current law causes more dumb activities, like binge drinking.

 

[slappy4428]

Oh Isiah....

Hey, slap.
NOW is the time in that ongoing Freep flashback series for them to re-run "Letter To Joshua," I'd say.

Poetic justice would have scheduled that for today...

 

[Dangerous_K]

While Isiah Thomas is an unredeemable failure of a human; a depraved, vile and villainous piece of walking damp excrement, all his son did was have an underage drink while at college. Hardly the stuff that calls into question his parenting skills or mal-formed genes passed down from a defective father.

Agreed. A 19-year-old sneaking into a bar, having a couple of drinks and getting into a fight...my God, that probably happens a couple of times a night in every college town in the U.S.
This speaks to a larger issue. Why on earth is it illegal for 18 to 21 year olds to drink in bars? Why should a person have the rights granted to every adult U.S. citizen except for one small one? And is it good for a system of laws to have a rule that pretty much every one agrees is a joke? Matter of fact, one could argue that the current law causes more dumb activities, like binge drinking.

I'd be curious to see if a comparison of DUI accidents involving 18-20 year olds when it was legal for 18+ to drink in comparison to the currently laws. I'm really not basing it on anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if the difference was minimal.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

What we should do is make up our minds on a policy and stick to it.
I was there in Wisconsin in 1972 when the state went 18 -- on St. Patrick's Day, I might add. Nice planning, guys -- and it looked like that was going to be the case forever. Then we had one of our usual WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? spasms and it went back to 21, and now everybody's arguing about it again.

 

[93Devil]

****, a lot of people drink underage. No denying that.

Most people are smart enough not to get punched out in a bar when they are doing it, though.

 

[JR]

It used to be the reverse.

When I was in hs, drinking age was 19 in NY, 21 in Ontario.

We used to go "over the river" to Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Lewiston regularly.

It's 19 everywhere up here.

 

[old_tony]

In my state, at first they raised it to 19 to supposedly keep alcohol out of the high schools because some seniors were 18 and could drink. Then they raised it to 21 because they were being blackmailed MADD and the feds. If they didn't they would lose a ton of federal highway dollars.

 

[Starman]

What we should do is make up our minds on a policy and stick to it.
I was there in Wisconsin in 1972 when the state went 18 -- on St. Patrick's Day, I might add. Nice planning, guys -- and it looked like that was going to be the case forever. Then we had one of our usual WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? spasms and it went back to 21, and now everybody's arguing about it again.

The drinking age was raised back to 21 because a bunch of old-fart legislators basically got pissed because "these young whippersnappers can drink when they're 18, and I COULDN'T."

That's basically the reason. Of course a lot of baloney about traffic safety was thrown in (which of course subsequently proved by complete coincidence to be true), but the whole reason the drinking age was raised was old farts pissed at young people having fun. That's it.

 

[zagoshe]

Oh I love this country.

Let's see -- We have no problem handing an 18-year old an M-16 and sending him/her in to some foreign land to run around the jungle or the desert, hope they don't get their heads blown off and charge them with shooting people who may or may not be the enemy...........but we don't think they are responsible enough to had a few budweisers.

That makes sense to me......

 

[forever_town]

This speaks to a larger issue. Why on earth is it illegal for 18 to 21 year olds to drink in bars? Why should a person have the rights granted to every adult U.S. citizen except for one small one? And is it good for a system of laws to have a rule that pretty much every one agrees is a joke? Matter of fact, one could argue that the current law causes more dumb activities, like binge drinking.

Hate to say it, but I disagree with the idea of reducing the drinking age. High schoolers (and not just the 18-year-olds) see drinking as rebellion -- as defying authority. As long as it has that romanticized notion, lowering the drinking age to 18 will be a fool's errand.

People can cite Europe all they want. Thing is, the culture is vastly different there from what it's like in the U.S. Over there, drinking doesn't carry the cachet that it does here. That's why I'm opposed to changing the laws here.