Of course I'm excited to see media activists getting together to enjoy each other's company -- I just wish that the public definition of "Happy Hour" didn't involve poisoning our bodies and impairing our social relationships.

This isn't mindless puritanism -- the Zapatistas reject ethanol and other drugs, and for this reason the Zapatista zones have the lowest rate of domestic violence in a state where 1456 women were murdered between 1993 and 2004. (http://www.narconews.com/Issue33/article971.html and http://www.counterpunch.org/ross01082008.html). There is a long history of abstinence and temperance for personally and politically liberatory reasons within radical and progressive activist communities. Of course I am not against people's getting together to chat and having a good time -- I would just hope that media activists spend as much time promoting sobriety as they do promoting alcohol.