Tomorrow night brings the first presidential debate, and with it, new debate drinking games. Politico and Vanity Fair already have some suggestions, as do the proprietors of debatedrinking.com.

“I drink to make other people interesting,” proclaimed George Jean Nathan, H.L. Mencken’s literary partner in crime. That sentiment helps explain why self-medication has become almost essential to these exercises in American civic life.

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