Drink and Debate... Brilliant!

Oh you Irish, you make me proud:

"People here are educated," he says, but they like getting drunk. "There's nothing worse than a sober group taking itself too seriously."

How true. <flash to pictures of most american pundits of either extreme>. We could definitely use a little bit of this around these parts...
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/travel/26letter.html?ex=1303704000&en=e700824db4ebf302&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss