Should California legalize marijuana? Christian Science Monitor, August 30th, 2010.
At one time, alcohol was not legal in the United States. Most historians agree that Prohibition was an enormous mistake. Do you think marijuana should be regulated, just like alcohol?
Or does it matter?
What do you think about low alcohol beers?
Read the article from the Washington City Paper.
Or take our very informal poll:
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Gail Caldwell remembers her friend and fellow alcoholic writer Caroline Knapp in this lovely book, let’s take the long way home. A must read!
Read the full review on Salon.
Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for the Boston Globe…(read more from Wikipedia.)
Caroline Knapp wrote Drinking, A Love Story, which recounted her 20 year battle with alcoholism. Although she won that battle, she died of lung cancer in 2002.
For those of you interested in the Dr. Drew/Lindsay Lohan dust-up, and the larger question it opens up re AA’s status as the government-mandated treatment program of choice. Just to pre-empt an often true, but ultimately nonproductive line of reasoning, let’s try to move beyond the simplistic “if it doesn’t work, you’re not doing it right” tautology. Comments?
LA Times, Opinion
July 30, 2010
Amy Lee Coy
This quadriplegic, alcoholic artist, whose controversial cartoons pushed the boundaries of propriety with often shocking and offensive work, died yesterday at age 59.
read the Washington Post obituary
Washington Post
By T. Rees Shapiro
Thursday July 29, 2010
The cartoons live on at Callahan Online.
Quotidian Buzz welcomes the first member!
You might have heard this before:
It really is that simple.
What do you think?
Stanton Peele
What do you think of this article by Stanton Peele from the Huffington Post “AA Isn’t the Best Solution“?
From Wired Magazine, June 2010: “Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How it Works“.
One of ours?