The appropriate DWI punishment for Donte Stallworth?

Reading about the Cleveland Browns’ receiver getting just 30 days of jail time for DWI manslaughter made me think of a more appropriate punishment.

Then I got it.

Thinking of how many NFL players “praise Jesus” after each touchdown, make Stallworth take off his helmet and say, “I drove while drunk and killed somebody” each touchdown he scores during his two years of house arrest.

And yes, there are some extenuating circumstances, like the victim, technically, jaywalking. Still, this is pretty much a free pass to get 30 days, plus two years house arrest that still let you play in the NFL.

That said, I am waiting to hear MADD weigh in.

Drink up, Cowboy fans!

Will MADD get mad?

Gregg Easterbrook, in his always-interesting Tuesday Morning Quarterback column at ESPN, calculates that Jerry Jones’ new deal with Miller means the boys from Milwaukee South Africa will have to pour a lot of brews down your throat:

Miller will pay Jones $8 million annually for the next decade. An NFL team plays 10 home games annually. Assume Miller keeps around $2 for each $7 beer sold. That's a guess -- stadium concession economics vary a lot from place to place. Anyway, this suggests that merely to cover the promotional fee, Miller must sell 400,000 Lites per Cowboys game. That's six beers per game per seat in Texas Stadium, five beers per game per seat in the larger new facility.

How long before Mothers Against Drunk Driving, headquartered not much more than a stone’s throw from Texas Stadium, gets wind of how this calculates out?

Oh, and the WSJ aside, WHERE is this in the American media?

Texas targeting uninsured drivers – but not car insurance companies

Three years after the Texas Legislature passed a bill to crack down on uninsured drivers, the state will start to crack down on uninsured drivers.

But, as usual with the business-suckup Texas Lege and state regulatory agencies, there’s not a peep about cracking down on car insurance companies.

After all, the new law gives insurers, as a unit, a captive audience.

And, we all know what has resulted from state insurance commissioners’ get-tough talk with homeowners’ insurance companies the past several years.

Enjoying those big insurance savings from Farmers yet?

Oh, by the way, MADD’s argument that drunken drivers are less likely to have insurance than others is specious at best and empirically unsubstantiated at worst. (Do they offer any evidence on this claim? Not in the story.)

Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded on a noble purpose and did good work in its early years. But, it’s moved from that in the direction of broader neo-prohibitionism in general and sticking its nose into areas outside its original mandate.

Surprisingly, the head of the state auto insurers’ trade group says his members aren’t that enthusiastic.

What both the Lege and MADD are ignoring is:

The percentage of uninsured drivers who are illegal immigrants.

Enough said.