tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604269469647618072023-06-20T05:18:54.406-07:00Vessels of RageThis blog is about alcoholism with particular emphasis on the destructive behavior patterns exhibited by those alcoholics who have not yet reached the final, self-destructive stage. In other words, most of themJames Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-66314381358377936152019-03-19T12:52:00.003-07:002019-03-19T12:52:38.168-07:00Casey Anthony Celebrates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">EXCLUSIVE: Casey Anthony is spotted pounding St Patrick's Day shots and pints in the wee hours at West Palm Beach bar as she chats up several mystery men</span></h2>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-50593557778915064252018-05-07T17:32:00.000-07:002018-05-07T17:32:09.254-07:00Four Women Accuse New York's Attorney General<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse" target="_blank">New Yorker article</a> about Eric Schneiderman which I recommend reading in full.<br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-21764448772413658122017-11-30T12:54:00.003-08:002017-11-30T12:54:57.188-08:00O J Simpson Self-Monitors His BAC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/topic/oj-simpson"> O. J. Simpson</a> likes to relax at this bar even though he’s shackled to a strict drinking limit. That
is <b>one of the terms of his parole: not to drink “to excess,” defined as
a .08-or-higher blood-alcohol content level</b>. Simpson monitors his blood
with a personal Breathalyzer day and night, since a parole officer
could burst into either bar or bedroom to test him at any moment. </div>
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Gee, I guess <a href="http://vesselsofrage.blogspot.com/2017/11/drunk-oj-simpson-kicked-out-of-las.html" target="_blank">he got "drunk" </a>on a very low BAC. <br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-1617048423598237102017-11-10T08:48:00.004-08:002017-11-10T08:48:32.928-08:00‘Drunk’ OJ Simpson kicked out of Las Vegas hotel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Simpson had been frequenting bars at the hotel since his release from prison. Hotel staff tells TMZ ... at around midnight last night, Simpson was drunk and became disruptive at the Clique bar. We're told <br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2017/11/09/drunk-oj-simpson-kicked-out-of-las-vegas-hotel/" target="_blank">Simpson was angry at hotel staff</a> and glasses broke at the bar. <br />
Check out the pic below of Simpson strolling through the hotel Wednesday night.<br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-52106774994921467512017-11-04T11:27:00.000-07:002017-11-04T11:27:08.917-07:00Johnny Depp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5048637/Johnny-Depp-looks-worse-wear-London-premiere.html" target="_blank">Star appears "drunk" at premiere</a>.<br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-32536094804127098202017-08-24T13:04:00.002-07:002017-08-24T13:04:59.888-07:00O J Simpson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 1996 a paperback version of my book was published in the United Kingdom with the title <i>The Secret History of Alcoholism</i>. This re-publication of my 1992 book gave me the opportunity to update some of the chapters, to include other famous people who I had reason to suspect were alcoholics. One person I added was O J Simpson,the American football player who was found "not guilty" of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a famous trial. I included (in Chapter Eight, <i>Alcoholism Kills</i>) the following, with emphasis now added:</div>
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Years later, another husband (and possible alcoholic) stood accused of murder. Over many months of 1994 and 1995 O.J. Simpson was tried for the brutal knife-slaying of Nicole Simpson, his former wife and Ronald Goldman, a young male acquaintance. Admitted to evidence during the lengthy trial was a note Simpson had written in 1989 to his then wife, in which he apologized for punching her: <b>"... I'm not going to blame being drunk thats [sic] no excuse. (But I have decided to stop drinking and will go to A.A.)"</b> While testifying, Denise Brown, Nicole's sister, was asked if Simpson had a drinking problem. Because of Simpson's lawyers' objections, Denise (a recovering alcoholic) was not allowed to respond. O.J. Simpson was acquitted, but opinion polls showed that most Americans were convinced that this charming, dapper, over-achieving ex-football star was indeed the killer.</blockquote>
Although he was acquitted in the murder trial, O J Simpson was convicted for another crime and sentenced to prison. In October 2017 he will be released on parole.<br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-72351853214232205292017-02-18T08:57:00.001-08:002017-02-18T08:57:31.293-08:00Karl Marx<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I writing my book I considered the possibility that Karl Marx ought to be included but felt there was insufficient evidence.<br />
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If I were writing it today I'd include him.<br />
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Some excerpts from <a href="https://fee.org/articles/marx-the-man/" target="_blank">this article</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The money that his father sent to him
for tuition at the University was spent on food and drink, with many of
his nights spent at coffee houses and taverns getting drunk and arguing
about Hegelian philosophy with other students. </span></blockquote>
Other telling behavior:<br />
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<strong>Marx’s Mean and Mendacious Manner</strong><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In temperament, Marx could be cruel and authoritarian.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> He treated people with whom he disagreed in a crude and mean way, often ridiculing them in public gatherings. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marx
had no hesitation about being a hypocrite; when he wanted something
from someone he would flatter them in letters or conversation, but then
attack them in nasty language behind their backs to others. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He
often used racial slurs and insulting words to describe the mannerisms
or appearance of his opponents in the socialist movement</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">For instance, in an 1862 letter to
Frederick Engels, Marx described leading nineteenth-century German
socialist, Ferdinand Lassalle, in the following way:</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Jewish Nigger Lassalle ...
fortunately departs at the end of this week ... It is now absolutely
clear to me that, as both the shape of his head and his hair texture
shows – he descends from the Negros who joined Moses’ flight from Egypt
(unless his mother or grandmother on the paternal side hybridized with a
nigger). Now this combination of Germanness and Jewishness with a
primarily Negro substance creates a strange product. The pushiness of
the fellow is also nigger-like.</span></blockquote>
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I recommend reading the entire article. </div>
James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-72141941722059501352017-01-28T13:39:00.003-08:002017-01-28T13:39:42.411-08:00Mary Tyler Moore, R.I.P.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Her father, George Tyler Moore, a clerk, and her mother, the former Margery Hackett, were both alcoholics... "<br />
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"In the 1980s, Ms. Moore admitted to having a drinking problem. It had
started, she said, when she was starring in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and
had finally reached untenable levels. (In 2000, Mr. Van Dyke told Larry
King that he was also an alcoholic and that he had also started
drinking heavily while working on the show.) Ms. Moore entered the Betty
Ford Center for treatment in 1984."<br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/arts/television/mary-tyler-moore-dead.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to The New York Times obituary <br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-76941444248418307292017-01-28T07:33:00.000-08:002017-01-28T07:33:08.019-08:00John Hurt, R.I.P.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From Hollywood bad boy to national treasure: The notorious
hell-raiser who drank up to seven bottles of wine a NIGHT</h4>
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<li class=""><strong>Sir John once boasted he drank seven bottles of wine a night during wilder days</strong></li>
<li class=""><strong>He gave up alcohol in later years and became one of world's most beloved actors</strong></li>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-28443801700976441052016-10-31T06:29:00.000-07:002016-10-31T06:29:02.899-07:00Jimmy Fallon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a class="postid-4161454" href="http://pagesix.com/2016/10/25/nbc-fears-jimmy-fallons-boozing-is-out-of-control/">NBC worried Jimmy Fallon’s boozing got ‘out of control’</a></div>
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Jimmy Fallon was
warned to cut back on his boozing by NBC chiefs following a series of
bizarre late-night accidents, according to multiple insiders.</blockquote>
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An NBC insider said of the funnyman, “There <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/01/is-jimmy-fallons-partying-getting-out-of-hand/?_ga=1.204589072.186345023.1477354462">were fears that Fallon was out of control</a>
and something could happen while he’s out drinking. Things got so
serious at one stage that execs feared that Jimmy was splitting up with
his wife over his drinking, but they patched things up.”</div>
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The beloved “Tonight Show” host’s recent allegedly alcohol-aided antics include tripping on a rug at home and nearly <a href="http://pagesix.com/2015/06/26/jimmy-fallon-suffers-bad-hand-injury/">severing his ring finger</a>
on a table in June 2015. </blockquote>
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Then he chipped his tooth “trying to open
medicine for his injured finger” a few months later. In October 2015 he <a href="http://pagesix.com/2015/10/25/fallon-hurts-other-hand-in-fall-with-bottle-of-jagermeister/">cut his hand</a> on a bottle of Jägermeister. In September of this year a “very drunk” Fallon was <a href="http://pagesix.com/2016/09/27/very-drunk-jimmy-fallon-dances-to-90s-tunes-all-night/">seen alone at an NYC punk bar</a> at 3 a.m, which sparked more NBC concerns.</blockquote>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-19719372700160754732016-10-30T08:13:00.001-07:002016-10-30T08:13:24.944-07:00N.S.A. Appears to Have Missed ‘Big Red Flags’ in Suspect’s Behavior<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="byline" itemid="http://www.nytimes.com/by/scott-shane" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By Scott Shane and Jo Becker</span></div>
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WASHINGTON — Year after year, both in his messy personal life and his brazen theft of classified documents from the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_security_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about National Security Agency, U.S.">National Security Agency</a>, Harold T. Martin III put to the test the government’s costly system for protecting secrets.</div>
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And year after year, the system failed.</div>
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Mr.
Martin got and kept a top-secret security clearance despite a record
that included drinking problems, a drunken-driving arrest, two divorces,
unpaid tax bills, a charge of computer harassment and a bizarre episode
in which he posed as a police officer in a traffic dispute. Under
clearance rules, such events should have triggered closer scrutiny by
the security agencies where he worked as a contractor.</div>
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From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/us/harold-martin-nsa.html?ref=todayspaper" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>. <br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-13622870977230672772016-10-19T05:14:00.000-07:002016-10-19T05:14:06.477-07:00Warren Hinckle <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-passing-of-a-Sixties-showman-8502" target="_blank">Peter Collier on the passing of Warren Hinckle: </a><br />
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When I joined <span class="Ital">Ramparts</span> in 1966, Hinckle was
already well on his way at age twenty-seven to becoming a living legend.
While most of the staff came to work in street-fighter chic, he had his
own homemade version of <span class="Ital">bella figura</span>, showing
up most days in a tie and three-piece suit, although sometimes changing
pace with patent leather dancing pumps and a maroon velvet jacket.
Jowly and plump and conveying an impression of fluid retention, he was
an imperious alcoholic and only those who didn’t realize how Irish he
was regarded it as paradoxical that he should become more fluent and
inventive the more he drank, and that he never—even after several hours
at Cookie Pacetti’s, the working-class watering hole where he went to
escape intellectuals and politicos—appeared drunk.</blockquote>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-77127588685574006302016-09-14T11:02:00.000-07:002016-09-14T11:02:24.227-07:00 EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> ... French
journalist Jean Quatremer, who conducted the interview, said Mr Juncker
glugged four glasses of champagne during the course of their light
lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He
recalled how during a previous meeting when Mr Juncker was prime
minister of Luxembourg, he had drunk three straight glasses of cognac at
the end of a meal where he had enjoyed many glasses of white wine.</span></div>
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<br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3789007/I-m-not-drunk-s-just-way-walk-EU-chief-Jean-Claude-Juncker-dismisses-rumours-s-alcoholic-blames-injury-appearing-drunk.html#ixzz4KFYErYE0" style="color: #003399;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3789007/I-m-not-drunk-s-just-way-walk-EU-chief-Jean-Claude-Juncker-dismisses-rumours-s-alcoholic-blames-injury-appearing-drunk.html#ixzz4KFYErYE0</a>
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Some observations:</div>
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High tolerance for alcohol is often a sign of alcoholism. </div>
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Denial can be a confirming symptom</div>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-20130079536581462502016-08-28T07:55:00.002-07:002016-08-28T07:55:35.369-07:00Two United pilots arrested for being too DRUNK to fly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3762266/United-Airlines-pilots-Brady-Grebenc-Carlos-Licona-pictured-Glasgow-arrest.html" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE: Two United pilots are 'arrested at Glasgow Airport for being too DRUNK to fly to New Jersey' - as it's revealed both are military veterans</a></div>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Brady Grebenc, 35, and Carlos Licona, 45, were arrested Saturday at 9am</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The pair had been scheduled to fly from Glasgow, Scotland, to Newark, NJ</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">But they were taken in by police after 'concerns were raised' </span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">They are currently in police custody on suspicion of trying to fly drunk </span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Both claim to be military vets and instructors with decades of experience</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Licona was awarded in 2013 by the FAA for being a 'positive example'</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">New crew eventually took the 141 passengers to New Jersey ten hours later</span></li>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-3179726516744824432016-08-26T07:08:00.002-07:002016-08-26T07:08:31.934-07:00Co-pilot was nearly 4 times over legal limit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/08/26/co-pilot-busted-on-suspicion-of-being-drunk-nearly-4-times-over-legal-limit/" target="_blank">Co-pilot was nearly 4 times over legal limit</a></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
A co-pilot on a charter plane in Michigan bound for Massachusetts was
arrested Thursday after a colleague suspected that he was drunk.<br />
<br />
Traverse City police Capt. Kevin Dunklow said the Talon Air
co-pilot’s breath test showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.30, nearly four
times the legal threshold for drunken driving.<br />
<br />
Talon Air praised its employee for discovering the suspect was drunk.<br />
<br />
“We are very proud of Captain Manny Ramirez’ immediate action in
detecting the co-pilot’s condition and removing him from his position,”
Talon Air said. “This is yet another example of Talon Air’s safety
procedures working effectively on behalf of our clients and for airport
safety.”<br />
<br />
Talon Air said the co-pilot was “immediately terminated” following the incident. His name hasn’t been released.</blockquote>
Considering the difficulty of identifying alcoholics it is probable that the percentage of licensed commercial pilots who are active alcoholics is similar to the percentage for the general public. <br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-61505441197793562292016-08-15T09:51:00.002-07:002016-08-15T09:51:45.420-07:00Ivan the Not-So-Terrible<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
by Neil MacFarquahar<span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/neil_macfarquhar/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="byline-author-link" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/neil_macfarquhar/index.html" title="More Articles by NEIL MacFARQUHAR"></a> </span>
<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The governor of the small Russian region of Oryol is trying to convince <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/what-in-the-world/russia-ivan-the-terrible.html?mabReward=A4" target="_blank">people that Ivan the Terrible was not so bad.</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
... Ivan’s more dubious deeds include founding the first version of Russia’s secret police and beating his own son to death. </blockquote>
<br />
For my views on Ivan read pages 161-166 in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vessels-Rage-Engines-Power-Alcoholism/dp/0963024248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471279482&sr=8-1&keywords=%22vessels+of+rage%22" target="_blank">Vessels of Rage</a> ...<br />
<br />
Also available on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/James_Graham_Vessels_of_Rage?id=oqlNkz9cKlUC&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Play.</a> <br />
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-54758634211982444272016-08-05T03:33:00.001-07:002016-08-05T03:33:17.154-07:00Girl Accused of Killing Abusive Drunk Father<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The details are here.</div>
James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-83746439439356035132016-07-28T08:01:00.001-07:002016-07-28T08:01:28.426-07:00Joe McGinniss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="title" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lessons-from-my-father" target="_blank">Lessons from My Father</a></div>
<br />
by Joe McGinniss, Jr.<br />
<br />
An excerpt:<br />
<br />
" ... When we were kids, my sisters and I had a house rule: if it’s after
seven, don’t answer the phone. None of us wanted to be the one to pick
up if it was dad, his voice dulled, the words slurred and sprawling."</div>
James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-43258730100754423892016-06-30T08:11:00.001-07:002016-06-30T08:11:45.605-07:00Phil Parker, Who Helped Homeless Alcoholics, Dies at 86<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
by Sam Roberts<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="179" data-total-count="179">
Phil
Parker, the son of a Baptist preacher, said he had never tasted liquor
until his Harvard graduate school classmates lured him into a smoky
cocktail lounge for the first time.</div>
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<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="257" data-total-count="436">
“This
night in the bar was like no other time in my life,” he wrote years
later. “Not only was I completely at ease, but I actually loved all the
strangers around me and they loved me in return, I thought, all because
of this magic potion, alcohol.”</div>
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<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="320" data-total-count="756">
After
that, he wrote, he lived only to drink. He graduated, but was fired
from one teaching job after another, wound up in an asylum and finally
landed homeless on the then-squalid Bowery in Manhattan in the
mid-1960s. There, he met a social worker, a member of Alcoholics
Anonymous, who told him how she had sobered up.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/nyregion/phil-parker-who-helped-homeless-alcoholics-dies-at-86.html?ref=todayspaper" target="_blank">LINK </a></div>
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<img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-caption="Phil Parker in an undated photo. Mr. Parker had been sober for nearly 48 years when he died." data-mediaviewer-credit="Dana McCoy" data-mediaviewer-src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/29/nyregion/29parker-obit/29parker-obit-superJumbo.jpg" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/29/nyregion/29parker-obit/29parker-obit-blog427.jpg" itemprop="url" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/29/nyregion/29parker-obit/29parker-obit-blog427.jpg" /></div>
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<span class="caption-text">Phil Parker in an undated photo. Mr. Parker had been sober for nearly 48 years when he died.</span>
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Dana McCoy </span>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-64157815210769769812016-05-14T06:44:00.003-07:002016-05-14T06:44:47.375-07:00Moby Looks Back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;">
The techno music pioneer has reached middle age, with a new memoir out about his struggles with alcohol, poverty and success.</div>
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<div class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;">
... Moby, born Richard Melville Hall and now 50 years old, has sold more
than 20 million albums world-wide; his dozen official releases include
“Play” (1999), “18” (2002) and “Innocents” (2013). It wasn’t an easy
path. He grew up poor in an affluent Connecticut suburb and battled
alcoholism for almost two decades.</div>
<div class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;">
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<div class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;">
... Moby was drinking heavily by the late 1980s, before becoming sober for a few years and then starting to drink again in 1995.</div>
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<div class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="text-align: left;">
Read it all at <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/moby-looks-back-1463072693" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a>. </div>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-3505001312056043142016-05-03T10:12:00.003-07:002016-05-03T10:12:27.137-07:00False Accusations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Shameless self-plug:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Simply stated, false accusations are aggressive lies, but we also
know them in milder form as spin, slanting the facts, one-sidedness,
tailoring the message, and so on.<br />
<br />
<strong>"Note:</strong> I got the idea of the importance of false accusations from a book I am reading on alcoholism: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vessels-Rage-Engines-Power-Alcoholism/dp/0963024248">Vessels of Rage, Engines of Power: The Secret History of Alcoholism</a>.<br />
<br />
"The author of this book, James Graham, makes the claim repeatedly
that alcoholics very often engage in false accusations. In discussing
this book with my partner, we came to conclude that Graham is right
about this—false accusations do seem to be common among the alcoholics
we both know."</blockquote>
<br />
My thanks to the author whose website is <a href="https://americanbuddhist.net/2016/01/10/basic-signaling-and-what-it-explains/" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-80821636646254697122016-03-13T06:17:00.003-07:002016-03-13T06:17:48.082-07:00Madonna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Swigging tequila from a fan's hip flask, Madonna suffered another onstage meltdown yesterday as she branded ex-husband
Guy Ritchie a 'son of a b***h' ...</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The
57-year-old singer, locked in a bitter custody dispute with Guy over
their son Rocco, couldn't contain her emotions during a second mumbling
show in Melbourne, Australia.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Her
‘chaotic’ appearance at the Rod Laver Arena included an emotional plea
to the crowd, begging, 'Somebody take care of me please. Who is going to
take care of me?'</span></div>
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<a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" target="_blank"></a> ... Erratic behaviour: Fans expressed their concern that Madonna was drunk
as she performed in Australia. At one point she asked for a cosmopolitan
cocktail to be brought on stage for her (circled)<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-38184637525704643212016-02-17T13:01:00.000-08:002016-02-17T13:01:10.772-08:00Retired-Alaskan-Airlines-pilot-pleads-not-guilty-flying-two-commercial-flights-drunk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ul class="mol-bullets-with-font">
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">David Hans Arntson, 60, was charged in January with operating a common carrier while under the influence of alcohol or drugs</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">Random
test showed he flew two flights on June 20, 2014, with blood alcohol
levels of 0.134 and 0.142; the legal limit for pilots is 0.04 </span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">Flights were from San Diego to Portland, Oregon, and then Portland to Orange County </span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">Arnston could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the charges </span></li>
</ul>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-2514468053347755332016-02-13T07:04:00.001-08:002016-02-13T07:04:16.670-08:00Leonard Nimoy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Alcoholic alien who was my worst enemy - and best friend: Star
Trek's William Shatner tells the emotional story of his friendship with
co-star Spock </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1>
<h1>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy became best friends after Star Trek</span></span></h1>
<ul class="mol-bullets-with-font">
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">They had no idea they were creating two of TV's most iconic characters</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;">Shatner played constant pranks, and eventually won Nimoy's friendship</span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nimoy was an alcoholic, which he kept secret while filming the TV show</b> </span></li>
</ul>
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James Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11036028043684739831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660426946964761807.post-34780556182951549542016-02-11T09:03:00.002-08:002016-02-11T09:03:41.205-08:00Downton Abbey star Brendan Coyle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Downton Abbey star Brendan Coyle got drunk on flight home from Thailand rehab centre, court hears</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The actor who played Lord Grantham's valet <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12152537/Downton-Abbey-star-Brendan-Coyle-got-drunk-on-flight-home-from-Thailand-rehab-centre-court-hears.html" target="_blank">Mr Bates in the ITV drama was pulled over by police</a> in his his BMW convertible
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