The US is like a mullet (all business up front, party in the back--or, all puritanical up front with a porn studio and home brew in the back), which says as much about our hypocrisy as it does our collective bad taste.

While the over 21's are drinking in public, the under 21's are depleting the nation's liquor reserves at home or under bridges. So, basically, there are laws and then there's what really happens.