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Drinking where you oughtn’t

Posted in Issues, Random, tagged , , , , , , on February 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The gym is one place you should never, ever drink, unless you are sneaky. 

The gym is one place you should never, ever drink, unless you are sneaky.

It would be nice if we lived in an enlightened society that allowed open alcohol consumption at McDonalds, in state parks, at NCAA football games and in government buildings, among other places.

But taxpaying citizens who want to sip on a 40 oz Icehouse while waiting in line for stamps at the Post Office are out of luck.

There must be a way for freedom-loving Americans to enjoy a beverage of their choice in a way that harms no one.

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Super Bowl drinking etiquette

Posted in Issues, Random, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Super Bowl is about a lot more than the Super Bowl. More than anything, it's about drinking.

UPDATED – 2-7-11: The Packers beat the Steelers. Bookmark this post for next year.

The Super Bowl – the media tells us that it’s the biggest sports contest of the year, an event featuring the best athletes in the world in a battle of wills to the death, winner take all.

But with a pre-game show starting shortly after church that includes untold hours of celebrity worship, reminiscences, cooking, product placements and quite a bit of non-football related material, let’s be honest: watching the Super Bowl is only about football inasmuch as attending a public school is about learning. That is, tangentially.

The Super Bowl is really about is organized drinking, if it’s about anything.

Whether it takes place in a bar, in a house or on the tailgate of Ricky Bobby’s Ford F-150, adults young and old will gather together, let bygones be bygones, and watch a bunch of armor-wearing neanderthals hit the bejeezus out of each other for a few hours.

In nearly every case, this will be accompanied by an orgy of adult-beverage consumption, the likes of which the world will not see again until St. Patrick’s day.

So what’s the proper procedure? What’s appropriate to drink, and what’s inappropriate? How much should you drink? Is your house appropriate to host a party? If so, how much alcohol will you need to buy?

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Drinking at work: life imitates Mad Men

Posted in Random, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

As a close follower of business trends, I was examining a series of Federal Reserve graphs today charting the lengths and strengths of various recessions and subsequent recoveries throughout our country’s history.

Boring, I know. But something struck me in the midst of my macro-analysis:

Recent recoveries have been slow and weak, while economic recoveries in the mid-20th century were lightning-fast and vibrant.

How could this be? I’ll tell you.

Workers back then were allowed, nay encouraged, to drink at work. Employees often kept a full bar, or at the very least a bottle of single-malt openly in their offices.

“Stop me at three,” Man Men’s Don Draper cautioned his young secretary one morning, before launching into a series of Emmy Award-winning business activities.

The Golden Age of Advertising, as it was called, was not so-named because of the large piles of money they earned, but due to the golden hue of the various liquors stored in each office.

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