Stacy McCain gives advice to a young blogger. (I have sitemeter envy, bad)

“Always drink beer in a bottle, because if a fight breaks out, you’ve got a weapon right there in your hand. Smash the bottom of the bottle against the bar, brandish the jagged shards like a knife (what they call a ‘Puerto Rican switchblade’) and loudly threaten to slice the throat of the first motherf—-r that gets in your way while you move warily toward the door.”

OTOH, if a fight breaks out you should start to wonder why you went in there in the first place.