“All the higher power option is going to do is turn perhaps the most insightful & witty columnist we have into another white bread & mayonnaise writer.”
This review assumes that AA is the only way—an inaccurate point of view often taken by the media which is really harmful to the alcoholics who don’t do well in AA. Research finds that many people quit on their own (Pete Hamill, I believe, wrote a book about doing this) and some quit via treatment based on other approaches.
Instead of encouraging Steinberg to fall to his knees each & every time he wants a drink, just pour him one on his way to his anger management class.
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If he didn’t smack Edie around, he wouldn’t have a problem (I’m assuming his liver function tests are normal).
johnnyboy54
The thought of opening the magnificent new Spertus Museum with such a foolish and disgraceful exhibition as Rhoda Rosen’s Imaginary Coordinates is utterly disappointing, for several reasons:
Is Spertus at [such] a loss of quality modern or ancient Jewish subject matter that they’re forced to present second-rate conceptual art just to make gratuitous jabs at the curator’s political opponents or philosophy? Spertus’s staff should, perhaps, be more cautious and selective about what they present to the, partially at least, very sophisticated public.
