From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

I hardly drink these days (bad for you!) but summer brings back memories of summer drinking. Cold beer on the beach, the bitter taste of gin and tonics on a porch, as the sound of old songs comes through the rustling oak trees from a well-liquored  dance on the harbor.  And  I remember the happily sweaty drinkers on the rooftop bar of The Washingtonian Hotel in the District of Columbia back in the ‘70s and ’80s. There, in a far-less stressed and divisive time, U.S. senators and representatives of both parties, Cabinet officers, journalists and others happily drank, mingled and joked in sweat-soaked shirts. No wonder it was easier then to get legislation enacted.