Posts

Showing posts from July 30, 2006

Black, white, drunk, not

Andrew Sullivan just made an amazingly ignorant comment while psychoanalyzing, on " The Chris Matthews Show ," the leader of the arguably free world. President Bush's problem, Sullivan asserted, is that, as "a recovering alcoholic," the president sees everything as either black or white, and therefore cannot deal with all "the grey" that has occurred over the course of the last few weeks. It seems that Mr. Sullivan is in need of a 12-step refresher course. It is drinking alcoholics who typically have the black-white worldview; in most recovery programs, alcoholics are taught to accept nuances (key phrase: accepting life on life's terms).