In The Day's "Night and Day" section, subtitled "Your guide to having fun this week - March 22-28," you offer "tips" for readers to amuse themselves, including one under the heading "webtip," in which your writer directs readers to her favorite Internet site, "Drunk History." She describes it as "stinking funny."

In this Internet entertainment, one watches a person who deliberately gets acutely drunk and is then filmed describing an important event in history. The intoxicated individual's account is subsequently acted out by Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle "to hilarious effect," as noted by the Day's tipster, who concludes her piece with this advice: "sit back and enjoy."

There is nothing funny about alcohol intoxication or the alcohol dependence that usually underlies it. It is a disease that affects millions of Americans. Far too many of your readers have families that have been wrecked by alcoholics, loved ones killed by drunk drivers or ravaged by the chronic physical and emotional diseases that result.

Laughing at the behavior of a drunken person is no different from finding humor in watching the difficulties of handicapped people or the mentally ill. It is a shame that The Day would trivialize the societal tragedy of alcoholism while encouraging voyeuristic entertainment that does a disservice to those who are affected by it.