Republicans, when they catch themselves going on auto-pilot and giving knee-jerk reaction applause, must take a dignified sip of family values approved sarsaparilla and exclaim: "Bless his heart!" If, at any time, the Republicans spontaneously erupt into a standing ovation, they must drain the remaining portion from the whisky bottle and cry: "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"
This bit of wisdom was related to us in our college days (and attributed to Senator Huey Long): "Not drunk he is, who from the floor, can rise alone and still drink more; but drunk he is who prostrate lies, with power to neither drink or rise."
Now, the disk jockey will play Ernest Tubb's "Pass the Booze," Frank Sinatra's "One more for my baby (and one more for the road)," and Jerry Lee Lewis's "Drinking wine Spo-dee-oh-dee." (Hat tip to http://barstoolmountain.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-100-drinking-songs.html>Barstool Mountain blog.) It's time for us to go and locate a good Irish bar in Berkeley, which will feature the speech on their TV. Have a "tonight the bottle let me down" type week.
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