In 1999, Burger King UK announced the launch of the new left-handed Whopper designed to fit more comfortably in the left hand, resulting in fewer ‘spills’. In 1994, PC Computing blew the lid on legislative efforts to ban the use of the Internet while drunk. In 1985, George Plimpton pulled off one of the biggest…

H.L. Mencken‘s motto was clear: “I’ve made it a rule to never drink by daylight and never refuse a drink after dark.” Ambrose Bierce said, it is “a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure (of a drink).” When an editor asked columnist Murray Kempton, “How much more?” the Pulitzer…