Everyone knows that drinking is dangerous.

Cirrhosis of the liver aside, getting wasted has even more disastrous consequences.

Excessive drinking inevitably leads to anti-social behavior, like the time my friend got wasted at a bar and ruined his cell phone when he could not control his bladder and wet his pants.

Getting drunk means trouble with school authorities. Countless DU students have been put on probation for getting caught drinking in residence halls or other DU housing.

Drunkenness leads to  trouble with the law, the kind of trouble that leads to arrest for public intoxication.

When you go out drinking, you never know what’s going to happen.

Now I’m not going to be preachy and tell you not to get hammered and be loud and obnoxious, because I know just as well as the next guy that everyone has a blast being belligerent once in a while. What I’m telling you to do is be smart about it and don’t overdo it.