Battle of the Ethanols

Dear Client: Back in the Summer of 2003, I found myself in the back of a hot, sandy Suburban hurling across the Suni triangle in Iraq sandwiched between Guy Smith, Diageo's former communications EVP, and legendary drunken New York Post scribe Steve Dunleavy, as Guy and I argued over whether Smirnoff Ice should be taxed as a beer and the legitimacy of the rum cover-over. At one point Dunleavy, as he guzzled hot vodka from a water bottle and chain-smoked