Greetings, Dear Reader,

Kind of a new thing today. We’re doing a mailbag.

People sent in questions for me to answer, like I’m a barking seal getting fish thrown at me.

If you get a kick out of this, write in and let us know and we’ll be sure to do it periodically. If not, same deal, let us know.

With that, I give you …

YOU ASKED, I ANSWERED

Britt Newsome asks, “Hi Geoff, does drinking alcohol make you a ‘real man’?”

Hey, Britt,

No, quitting does. Then picking it back up briefly as you ride through the rain to avenge the killing of your friend Ned at the hands of notoriously ruthless town sheriff Little Bill.

William Munny, the protagonist in Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven,” might literally be an imaginary man, but he, in his own words, “killed just about everything that’s walked or crawled at one point or another.” What could be more manly than that?

Well, when we’re introduced to him, he’s entirely reformed. Given himself over to God at the behest of his late wife, an evidently pious woman we never get to meet. Munny is an honest pig farmer and a present father who’d given up a past life of criminality and rabble-rousing. He’d even given up drinking entirely, that is, until Bill killed his best friend.

I’ve been known to booze now and again. I probably will again over Thanksgiving.

Real men love only one woman with a passion that can’t possibly be fathomed by those who busy themselves in pissing contests over who can drink the most swill. They father children. They go to church. They lead productive lives and are constructive, peaceful examples to their children and the surrounding........

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