Should You Eat Booze or Drink It?

There are hard questions: "Can you describe pi to 100 digits?"; "Can you list all of your relatives, up to your great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather?"; "There is a way to avoid going to the bathroom for 2 weeks -- can you name it?"

And there are easy questions: "What is your name?"; "What is 1 + 1?"; "Should you eat booze or drink it?" The answer to all of these, as you know better than we, is "Yes."

Yes, you should eat or drink booze. Why? For the same reason that you should eat or smoke cigarettes: it is there. You should eat/drink, beer , wine and hard liquor because otherwise how will you enjoy Mardi Gras and St. Patrick's Day and Carnival, when you're down in Rio? Sure, like maybe you could enjoy dancing with Brazilian girls in the streets when they're blowing those referee whistles after you down some Robitussin, but we're not Superman like you are. In fact, we're nowhere near Superman. We're just the guy that Superman had to save.

But, if you're able to eat/drink booze, you can enjoy yourself during these celebrations of March, you can wear the clover or the beads or the Carnival-related material and act like you know what's going on, perhaps even blow your own whistle or run your own Ministry of Defense or Agriculture down in Brazil.

Anyway, when you come back to the U.S., be sure to pass us a drink, because we will be here, as always, with our hands out. In the meantime, wear your green and laissez les Ving Rhames brouler.

Until then, we remain, as ever, your humble servant,

The Raging Face