July Fourth Weekend falls somewhere between New Year’s Eve, St. Patrick’s Day, and Countryfest as the largest amateur drinking competition ever witnessed. I know this from both personal research in the field and behind the bar. I’m not shitting in the proverbial punch-bowl, I just don’t know where being a belligerently-drunk asshole falls in the Patriotism spectrum. In the quest for a memorable Fourth, one shouldn’t go into it with the intention of forgetting. If it happens, it happens, but save “winning the party” for campus. I’ll leave you with a quote from Mark Twain: “Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when they deserve it.” Try not to exercise your loyalty to the porcelain throne.
