Perhaps I am overcritical but this seems more a problem of personal discipline than something subject to mechanical fix. Wouldn't psychological counseling be a more sensible direction?

Some people would pay for it. The sale would create jobs. The people who are not going into drinking binges wouldn't have to spend any money on anything so it doesn't affect them. So why not?

This precocious idea brings about only one word to mind: pure genius.

This product would in fact revolutionize the interpersonal relationships of the intoxicatedly challenged, which make up the majority of Americans (there's a figure that proves that somewhere, I'm sure of it). At the very least it would change my life, which is all I really care about in the end.

This cunning product would have saved myself from myself. I can't even begin to fathom how much mental anguish I would have been spared if said product was in my sweaty chaffed palms. I would have been spared reading sent mails containing witty, yet wrongly perceived phrases such as:

"Dear 'ex-boyfriend,' I hope that when you die the maggots who normally would eat at your retarded brain would have enough sense to either leave your rotting well deserved dead body alone, or throw up in what is left of your pathetic mouth that spewed nothing but horrible, horrible shit while you were alive. Actually, I hope the maggots just use your eye sockets as urinals.

Too bad the Nobel Prize for Peace has already been given away this year, because you surely would have beat out that woman with the accent who did something in some land I don't give a shit about. Didn't she plant trees or something? I live in Oregon bitch, I don't need anymore fuckin' trees!

Your comment...

"In the event of extreme intoxication that verges on total clarity, there could be an override password..."

Extreme intoxication to total clarity?! (...upon death perhaps). The "override password" would negate any useful feature of this idea (for the obviously judgement-impaired). Perhaps allow an automatic save for the email that would allow the user (used loosely in this sense) a time to review the message when sober.

Your idea does open conversation as to the plight of the drunk at the computer (better than driving, or otherwise out in public). A drunk believes their writings might be especially eloquent and necessary at the absolute wrong time. What to do then? Back to your idea, but with an automatic save of all emails in the "waiting to be sent when you are sober" file, and along with all websites visited (how about all the posts to discussion boards, blogs, etc.?) --this drunk-a-log could then be revisted (password-privied) at a more sober moment.