Posted on 01/02/2005 4:51:59 PM PST by Kitten Festival
learn, via a Los Angeles Times article, of a recently-established magazine calling itself Modern Drunkard, dedicated to heavy drinkers and heavy drinking. My initial response was a chuckle and the assumption it was some kind of satirical parody. But sure enough, it has a website, and may even have the circulation of 50,00 which it claims.
Although I am in the wine business as a part-timer, I do not find the excessive consumption of alcohol to be an attractive practice - for myself or others. Drunks lose control, and it isn't pretty. Many of those controls (inhibitions, if you will) serve a necessary social purpose. Then there is the physical loss of control, which can place the drunk and those he encounters, when driving or even walking, in danger. Loss of control of bodily function, which occurs in deep intoxication, is disgusting. Plus, it is very, very unhealthy to drink to excess with any regularity, not to mention the costs inflicted on loved ones who, at a minimum, lose their connection to the drunkard during periods of inebriation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Lol, bump for later. Some funny jokes on that site :-)
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