i think you are being massively unfair to RWU here, and baiting him in a way that oes beyond even the permissive limits of our happy little group.

i'm gonna take a wild guess  - the handle/alias RWU is clearly meant as a political statement, no different than if I had chosen, fer instance, as a handle "I Loathe The Likud" or if you had chosen "Fuck The RNC."  I might even go further out on a limb and suggest that the name is a bit of romantic fantasy/wish fulfillment, with [perhaps?] RWU seeing himself as some sort of latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel as the trumbrils of pinko left-wing liberalism rumble ominously through our beloved land?

Or perhaps i ought to forget entirely about drinking, as it makes me regret not enrolling in the doctoral program in literature and i compose this instead.  Damn, numerous bartenders and at least one liquor store are really going to miss me.

But seriously, and i know you are a serious person, I do not think that any of us have a warrant to speculate about RWU's courage, and as such we are better served leaving that topic alone.  Even if, yes, he did bait you first with the pic and the post.

well, excuse me, i gotta go -- Pontifus Maximus is visting town and tying up traficc, so i've got to work myself up into a frenzy over him.