"In The Joy of Tippling, Ray Oldenburg writes about the isolation imposed upon us by bad urban planning, and by our own bad habits of sitting in front of the TV, which seeks remedy. We are social animals after all, and research has shown that we are happiest among friends. My aim, here, is to encourage the reader to find a place and a time of day to get together with people face-to-face on a regular basis. If it's just for coffee, OK, but that won't do what alcohol can"--