GLM has brought together a bunch of different views through different mediums in an attempt to enhance your understanding of Alcohol as it is now and was yesterday. GLM's Editorial Input has not been approved by the FDA and is not intended to cure, treat, or prevent any other ideology. Everything in life often connects, overlaps, and reflects one another.

Alcohol has been one of man's best friends. We've used it to keep people working happily, to have some clean drinking..er...beer, and we've had it help us blast off away from the earth. Let's discuss C-OH in depth and how it's related to our media, culture, and society.

Egyptians drank beer and wine all day and all night. Not just the men, and not just the women, but their little Tutlings, too. It provided a way to cool off, to rest their weary bones, and even provided decent nutrition. Besides, as we all know in Las Vegas, more beer=more labor! Except one's a lot harder--slot machine's are getting some hefty levers these days.

This tradition of alcohol consumption has carried throughout humanity and its history. The Europeans looked upon alcohol as a safe alternative to their filthy water supply. Before irrigation, and especially in the Middle Ages, the water supplies around them were used for a variety of things. You can guess, then, why you might not want to drink the water. And they say Mexico is bad!

It's a little known fact that the Mayflower that first landed on the American shores carrying those spiffy Puritans looking for a land without persecution (unto them, anyway!) carried more beer than water. It's a lot safer to drink, and it's loaded with natural preservatives.

Besides, lil'Puritans-to-be were easily put to sleep aboard a cramped ship. AND HOW!

Long before George Thorogood was shirking his landlady for rent and wasting his money at the bar men had long found watering holes useful. The Europeans love their Pubs, and these establishments, much like our Americanized versions serve as places for groups to get together and chatter. They often serve decent food, provide one or more of entertainment, and serve as a great way to get your freak on and break another heart come morning via an empty bed.

Pirates utilized them to recruit, learn about each other's deeds, and find clues to the whereabouts of the Black Pearl.

Dr. Rudolph Diesel invented an interesting engine design still widely used today.The Diesel Engine, as it stands, is one of the most forgiving internal combustion systems known to man today.

People have modified them to run on all sorts of things, but the coolest one I think today is alcohol. In no small part due to the evangelism of David Blume, you too can make firewater and throw it into a slightly modified diesel engine. Legally, none the less.

Oh sure, sounds like a lot of work, I know. But it's cheap, easily available, and may have prevented the long and storied career of Mel Gibson.

Alcohol is a great killer of things. It kills brain cells, marriages, careers innocent by standards via car, and of course bacteria.

Hydrogen Peroxide is a very useful antiseptic. It shares a lot of interesting elements, but at its core it's a rather alkalinic agent that can easily create a blonde on the cheap, help stop bleeding, cause kids to scream and not get scrapes as often as before, and in general just become a person prone to accidents best friend.

It's invention goes back to a Frenchman known as Loui Jacques Thenard who combined barium peroxide and nitric acid. A few years later he improved upon the cocktail but it wasn't until 1894 through another Chemist named Richard Wolffenstein utilized a process called vacuum distillation to create a most pure form of hydrogen peroxide. It's still in use today. If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Alcohol burns well. It's no secret to people who drink Bacardi 151 and take an open flame to their spit. Turns out, it burns well enough, that rocketeers can utilize it in either a solid or liquid state to blast us off into the Heavens, where we no doubt are constantly testing the wraith of God.

As you can see, alcohol has a plethora of uses. It's mostly best at cleaning wounds, helping people bump the uglies, launching monkies into outer space, and so much more!

I work at a liquor store and while alcohol and I have a sordid past I do now consume it in safe and sane ammounts. In the near future I will be providing you a nice article with reviews of some of my favorite pregnancy inducing drug mixes.

This Concludes G|Ms thought bubbles on alcohol.