It's pretty cool when you come across some writing that expresses what you have been thinking, only far better than you ever could. Then it takes it a step farther, to places that you imagine you would have made it to if you had continued to explore the issues concerned. Since this seems to happen periodically I decided to make a section in this blog for this phenomenon.
The writing that brought this to mind today is an essay by Kurt Vonnegut titled Cold Turkey. I have the feeling that if I read more or Kurt's stuff I would get more of the same feeling. I also imagine that many people experience this with his writing, explaining his popularity. I'll definately have to check out some of his other stuff to find out!
My government’s got a war on drugs. But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.
One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed or tiddley-poo or four sheets to the wind a good deal of the time from when he was 16 until he was 41. When he was 41, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.
Other drunks have seen pink elephants.
Posted May 14, 2004 4:21pm by dirvish
CHSIB = Coudn't Have Said it Better
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