As the preacher said in Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."
This article was originally published with the title Eat, Drink and Be Merry.
Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic (www.skeptic.com). His new book is Why Darwin Matters.
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