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Welcome and Last Post

mark and ilse — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:19:05 +0000

From Ilse: Here’s Stinkin’ Thinkin’ in its museum incarnation. All the posts and comments are available to read, but it’s no longer active. We won’t be posting (unless we have a really good reason or feel like it) and the comments have been disabled. You can read our goodbye post here. Again, thank you all [...]

The Jim B. Episode, Revised and Expanded

ilse — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:18:17 +0000

If you’ve been a regular, you’ll notice that I took down the last two posts on the subject of Jim Bock and the Sponsorship Group in Chatham, NJ. I want to be clear that the episode detailed in those posts did not drive us to close the blog, so I’m going to tell the story [...]

Hey, Kool-Aid!!!

Mark — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:43:12 +0000

Here is a fun story about Sheila “Hey Kool-Aid” Lockhart. A racehorse owner and serenity hornet in the UK: How top racing figure rammed her friend’s car in fury over gossip As the owner of a renowned racehorse named Go Ballistic, Sheila Lockhart might be expected to have an explosive temper. So after she rammed [...]

Progress, Not Perfection for Al U.

Mark — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:54:17 +0000

The steps seem to be working for racecar driver Al Unser Jr. Sure, he got popped for a third drunk driving charge a few weeks ago – but this time he didn’t beat up his girlfriend or flee from the scene of an accident. I’d call that progress, and so does he: Unser Making Progress [...]

How You Were Duped, Why You Believed, The Reason You Stayed

Mark — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:35:17 +0000

Back in the late 1950s, a couple of researchers designed an experiment that was meant to measure a person’s cognitive dissonance. The subjects were put into a room, where they sat in front of a box full of a dozen spools, each sitting upright in rows of three. They were told to take the spools out [...]

I knew it!

ilse — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:11:39 +0000

Is The Alcohol Message All Wrong? And if you want examples of bizarre beliefs and weird customs, you need look no further than our attitude to drinking and our drinking habits. Pick up any newspaper and you will read that we are a nation of loutish binge-drinkers – that we drink too much, too young, [...]

Why I Stayed

ilse — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:42:39 +0000

New from Blamethenile: How did you find yourself in AA? Why did you stay?

The Mondotuna-LifeRing Armageddon Guessing Contest

Mark — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:14:19 +0000

“I planned a good laugh in Nov about ST referring people to the non-AA forum I help out with, but doing it this early was a decision I was not involved in, and I take offense with those who took it on themselves to violate my privacy to this degree. That’s not something you or [...]

Quote of the Day

ilse — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:11:01 +0000

Richard Dreyfuss delivered the keynote address for the Oklahoma Outreach Foundation, where he offered up a some of the standard Sobriety Woo, but ended his speech with this grand heresy, which I dedicate to the new incarnation of JD: Expressing a desire that his keynote would make the audience think, Dreyfuss encouraged recent graduates of [...]