<div class="floatleft">(http://i63.tinypic.com/2eqf9j4.jpg) <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Peter Warcaof</span></strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">CGDA Benefactor</span></strong><br/>‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾</div></div></div>And all I suggested was a round of drinks for whomever, man or woman, was in the bar.  I can understand not drowning the hopelessness of unemployment with liquor.  Jaclyn must have spotted a soapbox somewhere and concludes with a lecture as to the evil of liquor resulting in women being treated as objects.<em>Harrumph!</em>I think not!  And have I not seen Jaclyn<em>rigor intoxicatus (my word)</em>?  Has she reformed and turned zealot?<br/><br/>I look for my own soapbox:<strong>“So Prohibition led to more organized crime to provide liquor, some romantic movies and narratives—I don’t think it, Prohibition, solved anything and caused problems—a puritanical morality permeates still, leading to senseless costs and jailbirds.  No thank you!”</strong><br/><br/>A few, sitting around, tip their glasses in our direction and I tip my glass to them.<strong>“I’d say treat women as people, not objects.  Enjoy oneself—eat, drink and be merry!  Merry does not mean turning every woman into a wench.”</strong><em>Harrumph!</em><br/>