I do not know the data on drinking, but I'm guessing that Superbowl Sunday drinking exceeds most every other day of the year. So please be careful, especially if you're going to be driving, or for that matter, operating any other forms of heavy machinery. So yes, take a taxi home or find your non-drinking designated driver. Now, today is a historic day for New Orleans, given the Saints are playing in the Superbowl, 4.5 years after Hurricane Katrina, and that the game is in NOLA. Yesterday was also a historic day, as Democratic Lt. Governor of Louisiana -- Mitch Landrieu -- won a landslide victory to become the next mayor of New Orleans. Many of us were rooting for James Perry for Mayor but there is good reason to believe that Mitch Landrieu is a going to be a wonderful mayor. It's time for the current Mayor Ray Nagin, a failed leader for the city of NOLA, to go. In his less harmful actions of the last few years, he stated this today: "We don't riot. But we're going to party like it's 1999," Nagin said. "And let me tell you, there's not enough beer. I think the beer distributors are working overtime. This town is going to have one heck of a celebration. That is in the middle of Mardi Gras . . . There's going to be a lot of people in detox, A.A., and what have you. We're going to have a good time."
[Bold emphasis mine]. Really Mayor Nagin? You seem disturbingly unbothered, actually quite proud, that people will need to go to detox or AA. You seem so proud of the detrimental consequences of imbibe-nation. The mayoral change couldn't come sooner. And, um, GEAUX SAINTS! |
