Writer Susan Cheever Wonders Where All The Drunks Went  Novelist
and reformed alcoholic Susan Cheever is sad her friends don't
get publicly shitcanned anymore, because now she can't feel
superior to them.  Cheever writes on the New York Times' website
that people in New York are drinking less, and she bases this
conclusion on the anecdotal evidence that those in her circle
are drinking less. Two things about that: Susan, honey, you're
65 years old. Perhaps part of the reason your friends drink less
now is that they can't stomach it anymore! But, she takes this
opportunity to say that she misses when her buddies used to get
fall down drunk because "For us sober people there is a kind of
drunkenfreude to watching others embarrass themselves, mangle
their words and do things they will regret in the morning — if
they even remember them in the morning."  Cheever gleefully
describes a friend tottering around at a party a decade ago.  As
dessert ended, the woman in the red dress got up and stumbled
toward the bathro