Letters to the Editor
David L.
Published Letters: 197 Editor's Choice: 9
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I'm amazed...
[Read the article: Do I have a drinking problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That you went overseas for a PhD. program, and left everything (including the love of your life) behind like that...for someone that just got their life back together, you sure know how to potentially wreck it all over again.
I'm not saying you are weak or incapable of getting your PhD...but if you have that fragile of a background, emotionally, then jumping off and going overseas like that is really going to put a strain on your sanity...although I'll at least give you credit for recognizing that you may be on the verge of screwing up your life again.
To answer you main question, though: yes, you do have a drinking problem. I don't know how anyone can keep up with the Brits and their incessant drinking, but if you already see problems in your life and it's because you enjoy drinking too much, AND you can't control it, then you need to either 1) stop drinking completely, or 2) go back home and pursue a PhD. at another university, in an environment where you have more emotional stability.
I discovered many years ago that alcohol and excess go hand-in-hand together with me...otherwise, drinking just ain't no fun. I did try the "French" wine diet of 1-2 glasses of wine a day for a few weeks with every meal...but then I noticed that if missed a day for whatever reason, I would get kinda cranky and irritable...and then I would try to make up for it the following day, which inevitably led to tipsy-ness, etc. I took that as my cue to NOT drink on a regular basis any longer...I may have a stiff one every few months, but that's about it now, because I know my own failings...and if I had my run of the liquor store every day, I would be boozing it up all the time.
And it doesn't matter if you are a "happy drunk" (like I was) or a raging alcoholic...being drunk is just that, no matter what type of drunk you may think you are.
So...just don't f'ing drink alcohol any more. Have a club soda (blech!) or a diet coke or something when you go out, but leave the alcohol behind...if you don't, you'll be putting yourself at great risk.
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Isn't interesting...
[Read the article: "A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That every time we hear about somebody getting sent to prison or making bad "choices" in their past, they somehow are more likely to convert some form of religious extremism? Then they feel it's their job to cram it down everyone's throats?
Think about it...look at the lives of these folks, like this televangelist guy in the article working out of the back of his used car lot (?!)...or Malcolm X joining the Nation of Islam...or the extended family of one of our old UU church members basically hijacking the memorial service with their overboard religiousity (stuff that this late member NEVER agreed with...sorry, memory of a recent event that still irritates the fuck out of me).
What is it with you folks that makes you think the rest of us want to hear your religious shit?
Besides...looks like my prediction of a Romney/Clinton fight in 2008 isn't going to happen anyways, so all this talk about whether the Evang. Right will split over this issue is non-sense...the bigger question now is whether or not they will sell their souls to the Devil (again) to put a home wreckin' liberal Republican like Giuliani in the Whitehouse. Kinda makes the whole Should-Hillary-Have-Run arguement look tame in comparison.
Who do you hate more, GOP faithful? Romney, Giuliani, or The Clintons? That's the real test here...
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Ben Stein???
[Read the article: The evolution of creationism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Am I the only one that found this just f'ing hilarious?
"[Ben] Stein told the New York Times that Darwin may well have been onto something with his theory of evolution, but that it is isn't up to explaining the origins and diversity of life on its own. Plus, he thinks Darwinism leads to racism and genocide. If Stein had his way, he said, the documentary would have been called "From Darwin to Hitler."
IDers are now turning to Ben Stein for help?
I could have countered this comment by saying that the Bible and it's misuse for CENTURIES by warring nations would clearly out out pace anything Hitler did with the racial eugenics that the Nazis claimed were backed up by Darwinist theories...but that would require me to give that doughy git, "Yes" man named Ben Stein more credit than he deserves...
Ben Stein...the same man that claimed Deep Throat was some bullshit concocted by Woodward and Bernstein to get Nixon (Stein's ex-boss) thrown out of office.
...the same man who also went on to blame Woodward, Mark Felt (aka the REAL Deep Throat), for the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, his rationale being that if Nixon had been in the White House, the U.S. govt. would have prevented the genocide from happening (yeah, right...based on what, Nixon's track record in Vietnam???).
Yes...let the Intelligent Designers have Ben Stein as their spokesperson. And while you're at it, hire Charlton Heston (aka Moses)...I hear he's getting tired of the NRA thing and needs a new PR challenge nowadays.