[proud American in Canada]

Yes, this is the new plan of attack.

He seems like a sober and level-headed guy to me today. Who hasn’t fooled around with alcohol when they were teenagers.

[Mouton]

So what is this ass alleging, we have a budding Churchill headed to the supreme court? If so, count me in.

[poconopundit]

Drinking?  What a sin for a college student!  /sarc

And Kavanaugh finished top of his class at Yale!   Wonder where this light-weight, dope-smoking critic of his was in his class ranking. . . Hmm?

In truth, knowing the Irish Kavanaugh is a drinking man gives me great confidence that he is a socially upstanding man -- a regular fella, so to speak.

When I first saw him speak, I was concerned that he was a bit of a bookworm -- or worse, an "intellectual".  But now, his esteem in my eyes is greatly enhanced :- )

I just found a wonderful essay by H. L. Mencken How to Drink like a Gentleman, explaining the virtues of drinking (his Dad owned a brewery):

But who wants to work all the time?  Only very foolish people.  The more rational man knows that there is something even more important in life, and that its name is living.  He is willing to work hard in his working hours, but when they are over he wants to relax, expand, and be happy.

The whole object of labor, as he sees it, is to give human beings this release and reward.  Well, here is where alcohol comes in.  In its milder and more palatable forms, as in wine, it remains unmatched after all these centuries as a maker of cheer.