The 2013 Times Square New Year's Eve Ball (Photo: Getty)

Later tonight, thousands of partiers will flock to Times Square in Manhattan, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be hosting a New Year's Eve bash. Naturally, security for such an event is a concern, and asked about about the topic at a press conference earlier today, Mr. Bloomberg sternly warned the public to behave themselves.

"Well you can never assure 100 percent everything. I can tell you that on a night like this typically, and I expect it to include tonight, crime is way down...The days in the past when there was chaos have long since gone," Mr. Bloomberg said before giving an ominous warning to partygoers planning to bring alcohol or drugs to the celebration.

"You come to Times Square, we will check backpacks. You cannot bring alcohol or drugs. Don't try to do it. You're not going to get away with it," said the mayor.

Mayor Bloomberg went on to predict good behavior in Times Square while touting the large police presence that will be on scene.

"People will be behaving. There will be an enormous number of police officers, including most of our new class of 1,200 police officers that we swore in last week. There will be an awful lot of police there in plainclothes. That person standing next to you may very well be a cop," Mayor Bloomberg said, before reiterating the ban on alcohol and illicit substances.

"We expect everybody to behave well, and they do every year. It's exciting, it's crowded. You stand there, you can jump up and down there and yell and scream; it's kind of hard to do anything else," said Mr. Bloomberg. "But no booze, no drugs. Period. End of story. And we will be checking."

(Photo: David Ball/Wikimedia Commons)

Legislators in North Carolina have proposed a bill aimed at making sure there will be enough booze at September's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. Under current North Carolina law, state-run liquor stores, which are the only source for hard alcohol in the state, must be closed on Sundays and on Labor Day, the day before the convention is scheduled to start. The bill would allow the stores to remain open on Labor Day to prevent bars and restaurants from running out of booze due to the combined imbibing of holiday weekend revelers and early DNC arrivals.

The primary sponsors of the DNC booze bill are Charlotte-area members of North Carolina's House of Representatives (two Democrats and two Republicans). It would only affect state-run liquor stores in Mecklenburg County, which is where Charlotte is located, and would only last for this year.

As of this writing, we were unable to get any of the bill's sponsors to respond to requests for comment on this story.

"You're not going to be able to get anyone on the phone until midnight because they're on the House floor right now voting on the budget," the aide who answered the phone in Representative Ruth Samuelson's office informed us.

(h/t @BuzzfeedBen)

Joe Coors contrasting himself with beer in his new ad. (Photo: YouTube)

He may be an heir to the Coors brewing family, but Colorado congressional candidate Joe Coors is not actually a glass of cool, refreshing beer. In case anyone was confused about this, Mr. Coors makes the distinction crystal clear in his first campaign commercial.

"I'm Joe Coors, I'm not a beer and I approve this message," Mr. Coors says at the end of his ad.

To make the contrast completely clear and visually illustrate the difference between himself and beer, Mr. Coors appears in the ad standing next to a giant-sized frothy glass of brew.

Mr. Coors, 70, is the great-grandson of Adolph Coors, the brewing magnate who brought America Coors Beer. He is running as a Republican against incumbent Democratic congressman Ed Perlmutter, but his vast personal wealth should help buoy his challenge. According to financial disclosures, Mr. Coors has family assets worth between $132.8 million and $478.1 million.

Watch Mr. Coors' ad, which is appropriately titled "Not a Beer," below.