I suddenly want to offer everyone a drink

Happy week long anniversary of the end of Prohibition!  Down with the distributors!  They make my wine cost too much.

For hooch has the power to inspire, to console, to make celebrations brighter, and hard times more bearable. In the words of the Roman poet Horace, drink “unlocks secrets, bids hopes be fulfilled, thrusts the coward onto the battle-field, takes the load from anxious hearts. The flowing bowl — whom has it not made eloquent? Whom has it not made free even amidst pinching poverty?”

We're about to find out.