Instapundit is on an alcohol advocacy binge. My brother, a pathologist, has done a lot of autopsies on alcoholics and confirms that alcohol does indeed keep one's heart in good shape. So we should all take up drinking, right?


I would be glad to go along if everybody would stick to a glass of wine with dinner, but show me where anything in the media really promotes that. What the beer companies promote is drinking all you want, but don't drive drunk. I know as a public defender most of my cases involved crimes done under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Somehow, it doesn't provide much comfort to know that the drunk who killed an old couple in my county had healthy arteries. I've just seen too much misery from alcohol to feel that it is a net benefit to our society.