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...tried to explain your alcoholism by saying that if you could drink normally, you wouldn't do it at all. What did you mean by that? The idea of having one or two drinks bores the ass out of me. If I'm going to drink, I'm going to do it to get drunk. If I'm not going to get drunk, I'm just not going to drink. It's hard to explain. That isn't necessarily what alcoholism is, I just tried to explain it as it manifested itself...
...What could that mean for the CEO? So long as any charges brought are civil and not criminal, there's no risk of jail time. But if Lewis is found to have lied, he won't likely get off with just paying a fine, experts say. He may also lose...
...Imperial is infinite,” writes William Vollmann. And because saying it once could not possibly capture what he could mean, what he profoundly, obsessively believes, Vollmann writes it again and again—sometimes in those exact words, sometimes in others—over the 1,344-page opus that is his latest book. Imperial, the book’s titular county, is at the very southern tip of California—though its presence is so immeasurable that Vollmann spends several sections trying to define what his Imperial actually encompasses. Vollmann produces a work similar in many...
...books, his online magazine and his newsletter. What's this rich and talented man afraid of? He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France. He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" - which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people." He is afraid that both Democrats and Republicans in Washington are deeply corrupt and that their corruption is spreading like a plague. He used to be afraid that hypocritical Republicans in the Bush Administration were killing capitalism...
...book, The Predictioneer's Game, that argues that pressure by student demonstrators this summer has already led to concessions by the regime, predicts that the influence of students will rise sharply this month to a level that will rival that of Khamenei's. "That doesn't mean they're going to rule the day," says Mesquita. "But it does mean we will see a substantial uptick in action by students and dissidents and increasing efforts by Khamenei and others perceived as hard-liners to find some pragmatic ways to accommodate or co-opt them...