Drinking Liberally featured in the Tribune

From last Saturday's Salt Lake Tribune:

Drinking Liberally is a nationwide inclusive social group. There are no dues, officers, membership lists or responsibilities. Mindy sent me to www.drinkingliberally.org where I entered my zip code and was truly stunned to find a chapter in Salt Lake City. I submitted my e-mail address to get news about local meetings and, after nearly a year of enticing weekly messages, my husband Chris and I finally showed up at our first weekly meeting a few months ago. [...]

The amorphous Salt Lake group is made up of teachers, government workers, undergrad and grad students, runners, bikers, a pilot or two, a nurse, an American Idol contestant, some computer people and many others. Professions don't come up in conversation all that often.

The original drinking — I mean thinking — about forming a group like this, was that bars are democratic spaces where strangers talk to each other, everyone is different, and everyone gets along in a common space. Just as Paul Revere and John Hancock might have discussed the nation's pressing issues over a pint of ale in a neighborhood pub, these modern cohorts are keeping the tradition alive.

There's also a new Drinking Liberally chapter in Ogden; their first meeting is Monday night.