[OT] Re: Hitchens: The Cult of ID

[Clive D. W. Feather]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.21.0306071813570.5196-100000 at greeves.mfn.org>, 
J.A. Terranson <measl at mfn.org> writes
>       Even better was the State of New York, up until ~1983: no photo on
>any license.  Just a piece of paper (no plastic at all) that said you knew
>enough to drive.  Proving that the license belonged to *you*, and not someone
>else, required actual *ID*!

My driving licence was issued in 1997 (IIRC, it doesn't say on it). It 
is a piece of paper and carries no photograph. It expires in 2031.

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