"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
Originally Posted by Illusions
This highlights an additional problem with the Lewkowskian philosophy on why the poor are poor and the rich are rich; if someone had $50k available to invest in the stock market, they could have invested yesterday, and then just wait and dump the stock whenever it goes above $40 - $45 and make more sitting on their ass doing nothing but watching their money grow than someone working 40 hours a week, 52 days a year, earning minimum wage (so long as it goes above $40 - $45 per share in under a year from the time they invested).
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That's a hella long ways from BFE Wyoming! His ex-wife and I miss him really bad! (Yes, that is just as fuckered up as it sounds!)
