You know what's great about being a grown-up? When you've had a crappy day, you can stop off and buy a bottle of Champagne, and it doesn't matter if it's a school night, and to hell with how much it cost, you can stand in the kitchen and drink that damn bottle with your best beloved when you got home, and it's fine.
The sucky thing about being a grown-up is you have days in which the only thing that will take the hard edge off of it is a bottle of Champagne drunk in the kitchen with your best beloved.
I love being a grown-up. Why? Because of liquor. And jazz. And wit. And France. I think heaven is going to be drinking a dirty vodka martini (Grey Goose, naturellement) while listening to Diana Krall and talking about P.G. Wodehouse and telling ribald stories.
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Diabetes is indeed a disease. Alcoholism is a sin. A penchant for booze may be a genetic predisposition; to drink to excess is a character flaw. One might as well exculpate gluttons, homosexuals, adulterers, cannibals, cowards and liberals.
Nasty, very nasty, Roland, and unnecessary. I don't feel guilty for my liberal leanings one bit, and though it may be beyond your apparent limited understanding, I could feel the same way about conservatives; for example, I could, for sake of argument, put conservatives in the same categories with heinous people, such as cannibals. Since I choose to look at people as individuals, however, I won't.
And putting homosexuals with cannibals, too?
I can only hope you're being at least somewhat sarcastic with this post. Otherwise, there's no accepting such unbelievable judgmental and sanctimonious attitudes.
eastcoastlady: I can only hope you're being at least somewhat sarcastic with this post. Otherwise, there's no accepting such unbelievable judgmental and sanctimonious attitudes.
It's not that I shy away judgmentalism and sanctimony -- I rather try to cultivate them assiduously for the praeternatural virtues they are.
But let me explain my reasoning. Alcoholics, gluttons, homosexuals, adulterers and cannibals sin by commission -- indulging in a surfeit of the most bestial of the base passions. Cowards sin by omission - avoiding the valorous course of action for the dastardly.
Liberalism by contrast is an ontological sin: it requires neither commission nor omission; it is purely an existential offense. Condemned by many popes, it is the human manifestation of the hubris of the Evil One: that by the usurpation of the power of God, one might become God.
In that regard then, I accept your deserved reprimand. I did not intend so grave a contumely to alcoholics, gluttons, homosexuals, adulterers and cannibals as to include their comparatively venial peccadilloes with the hell-consigning mortal sin of liberals.
Roland, no pretense and flowery words here, the flowery portion of which I am perfectly capable should I choose (I do try to avoid pretense, you know...).
I'll put it simply.
Please hold our your conservatively cupped hands so I can throw up in them.
Wow. People actually delude themselves into thinking as you do. That explains a lot.
Dear Eastcoastlady,
As I am maladroit in the emetic style of forensic combat at which you clearly excel, I shall withdraw from the arena.
I do apologise, however, for not having diagnosed your malady from your moniker. "Eastcoast" clearly shows you are infected with a case of the pestilential liberalism which runs unchecked there. "Lady" reveals a predilection for self-deception.
Having regrettably failed to prescribe a course of therapy to restore you to ideological health, I will nevertheless advise that you make use of reliable intellectual prophylactics when indulging in orgies of indiscriminate intercourse with liberals. I fear however that you are even now beset by the symptoms of tertiary liberalism. My condolences. I will pray to St. Edmund Burke for your conversion.
Get well soon.
Roland --
BU-WA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!
Thanks immensely for the belly laugh. It's been a tough week.
Wait a minute - still laughing - HAHAHAHAHAHHA!
Hoo. Okay better now.
No, wait - still laughing....
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