“ There is really no drinking half as enjoyable as daytime drinking, when the sun is out, the bars are empty of dilettantes, and the afternoon stretches ahead of you like summer vacation. The gleeful complicity you and your drinking buddies share in the excellent decision to have one more ill-advised round, knowing full well you’re forfeiting the day — you can almost physically feel something lifted from you at this moment, even if you know it will fall back more heavily later on. We used to raise a toast: “Gentlemen — our lives are unbelievably great.
Better With Booze
“It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”
—Jim Morrison
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April 4, 2009
March 16, 2009
“ Cheap alcohol is killing us as never before,” Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said as he delivered his annual Public Health report. “The quality of life of families and in cities and towns up and down the country is being eroded by the effects of excessive drinking.
February 23, 2009
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“ We all know that Michael Phelps was on something. But perhaps he was also onto something. Three recent polls show that Americans are more sympathetic to the idea of legalizing marijuana than ever before.
January 30, 2009
“ Our president’s approval rating is somewhere between pictures of baby pandas on the Internet and Free Beer.
“ The other famous presidential drunk was Ulysses S. Grant. When he was a general, however, his drunkenness worked in his favor. When informed that Grant drank whiskey while leading his troops, Lincoln reportedly replied, “Find out the name of the brand so I can give it to my other generals.
January 29, 2009
January 28, 2009
“ From the time he called me at 3 a.m. because he was almost arrested for public urination to the occasion when he ran into a troop of drag queens parading downtown Minneapolis, Bert makes sure that I am well-informed of his alcohol-induced activities.
