Welcome to the short version of the life of a friend of Bill W. When dealing with the intoxicated, you might want to keep in mind the caveat of Oklahoma’s Favorite Son and the esteemed movie actor, cowboy philosopher, political humorist, and Cherokee Indian Will Rogers who proclaimed, “I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!”.
He countered the white man always ready to take pride in and brag about how his ancestors arrived in America by quipping, “my ancestors didn’t come over on the Mayflower but they met it”. A thought that gives the Tennessee Mountain Man a chuckle to this day.
What has Will Rogers to do with this subject? Well, for a teetotaler who has been dead since 1935 he had some sage insights into modern day politics as well as the fallacy of over imbibing in fire water. Insights appreciated by the Criminal Defense Lawyers Association like, “Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators” (ouch!), and he has at least one Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Chapter as well as a Rehab and Recovery Center named after him.
A few days ago the...