As the Bush twins are investigated, students say bogus IDs are plentiful.(The Providence Journal)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ The night is young.

It's younger than it should be as teenagers step into the bar scene with the time machine that fits in your wallet: a fake identification card for those occasions when being yourself just won't do.

With nervous shivers and memory checks of birthdates and addresses, underaged partiers throughout the United States walk into clubs with their carefully crafted covers. They carry an older sister's license, or a friend's.

Or they hold a true proof of the ages: a license ordered off the Internet or made with Photoshop, Exacto knives and a mixture of titanium dioxide and acrylics for mastering those pesky holograms.

In Rhode Island, it is a misdemeanor to carry a phony or doctored ID, or one belonging to someone else. Culprits have lost their licenses. If your father runs the country, there's the publicity.

George Bush's 19-year-old twin daughters are under investigation for trying to buy drinks at a trendy Austin bar on Tuesday. The police say Jenna Bush used a valid ID belonging to someone else. The Austin police caught her drinking in a bar just two weeks ago, and a judge ordered her into an alcohol-awareness class.

Phony IDs are just as popular as seminars about the dangers of binge drinking.