A Perfect Name for the Subject....

It's always refreshing to see someone who shares my objective questions about drinking and why people do it to excess...or why they do it in the first place. Maria's blog could actually work as a series of public service announcements on the perils of overdoing it at the bar...or anywhere else, for that matter. The images featured in "This Guy needs to control it next time" and the picture with the man slumped over in a man's urinal (January 20, 2008) would ideally work as deterrents. The satirical videos on drinking are humorous and are successful in making excessive drinking look like the stupidity that it is. Unfortunately, we already know that no matter how many such pictures, videos, and actual PSA's there are in the world, people will keep right on drinking, will keep right on drinking excessively, and even worse...drive while drunk. It's one of society's many frustrating problems, and humanity seems bound and determined to keep it that way. Still, Maria gets an "A" for effort if she really is trying to deter future excessive drinking.

And incidentally, will someone please tell me what the attraction is to alcohol in the first place?