If there is one thing learned from the Great Chicken Disputation of the Summer of 2012, it is that we seem to have lost the ability to reason with one another on the most important topics facing our culture.

Chances are your mom banned such conversation at the dinner table when you were growing up. That just might be why our culture is so bad at intelligently discussing it as adults.

Whether or not your man wins, there is good reason to gather with fellow citizens of all political persuasions to watch the most noble political exercise in a free democratic society – that of the peaceful resolve to an election season.

Long before 322 Texas Street began hosting Drink and Thinks, this living room was home to something quite similar…