Update (12/7): Based on comments, I need to clear up a couple of things: First, I stopped drinking cold turkey on my own. I didn’t attend AA or see a counselor. I got tired of being a drunk, so I suffered through a couple weeks of withrdrawal and anxiety to get sober. Strong willpower and an independent-minded personality, I guess. More power to the people who attend/attended AA. I have nothing against it. I just wanted people to be aware that AA is not the only way to get sober.
Second, I couldn’t care less if Levy has a beef with AA. My problem is his moderation and control angle. Alcohol controls the alcoholic’s life, not the other way around. A drunk cannot have a drink or two, and stop (unless he passes out), generally speaking. Even if he somehow manages to get through a few days “controlling” his drinking, it’s going to spiral out of control. That’s the nature of the addiction. The only way for a drunk to get control of his life is to stop drinking alcohol.
I don’t have to know any of the world’s drunks personally to know that. From my own experience, I can speak about theirs.
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by La Shawn on 11.15.07
in Health
Blacks and disproportionality go hand in hand. It’s old news, really. Blacks make up roughly 13 percent of the population, yet commit over half the nation’s violent crimes. (Source)
Blacks make up roughly 13 percent of the population, yet they accounted for 50 percent of AIDS cases in 2005. (Source) No doubt some of these patients contracted AIDS through blood transfusions, rape, or other “accidental” factors, but the vast majority got HIV through sex and shared drug needles.
More sad stats: In 2006, black women, about 6.5 percent of the population, accounted for 47 percent chlamydia cases. Blacks accounted for 69 percent of gonorrhea cases and 43.2 percent of syphilis cases. (Source)
Also see Sex Diseases Still Rising; Chlamydia Is Leader.
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by La Shawn on 03.07.05
in Health
To all you “White men created HIV to destroy blacks and homosexuals” conspiracy theorists, may I have your attention? Eating monkeys is bad for your health:
The study of blood samples from nearly a thousand bushmeat hunters or handlers in Cameroon showed that at least six viruses had crossed from monkeys to the people who were exposed to freshly caught bushmeat. And two of these viruses have never been seen before in humans
The newly discovered human T-cell lymphotropic virus 3 (HTLV-3) and HTLV-4 are closely related to the known viruses, HTLV-1 and HTLV-2…..
“What’s increasingly clear is that the hunting and butchering of non-human primates is associated with the transmission of retroviruses to humans,” says Nathan Wolfe, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, US, who led the study.
He says the new results suggest the team’s previous find of simian foamy viruses in bushmeat hunters was “not just a fluke”. In the blood-screening study, 13 out of 930 people were found to be infected with simian retroviruses, and two with the new human strains. (Source)
The post title is a line from a song. Can you name the song and/or band?
Update: The great Walter Williams is guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh show today.
