First Baptist Church in Melrose, MA draws Alcoholics Anonymous into Public Controversy

I thought that this story was interesting. Three licenses to sell wine and beer were granted to high-end shops in the neighborhood of the First Baptist Church in Melrose. If you follow the links to the stores’ websites, you’ll see that they’re all gourmet specialty shops, where people can go to get their fine wines [...]

How to Be An Effective Guest Speaker at Alcoholics Anonymous or AA Meetings

[Correction: This piece doesn't come from a legitimate news source, but an online web content mill.]
This is kind of a funny piece, because, while the author wants to present AA in the best light possible, he also wants to make sure that everyone else does, too. Clearly, he has experienced some ineffective evangelizers, and thinks [...]

You have a big fat problem. And we just happen to have the answer!

Imagine that!
Dr. Dave and Bill have another article up today.

The Serenity Prayer

This review of The Serenity Prayer in the Boston Globe is a few years old, and probably many readers are aware of the fact that The Serenity Prayer, as we learned it, is not the original version — and in fact, the version we know diminishes its author, Rheinhold Niebuhr’s philosophy and sentiments:
At some point the prayer was simplified. Printed [...]

Sound Familiar?

Winter brings in the funny this morning, by tipping us off to this Onion piece:
Oh, No! It’s Making Well-Reasoned Arguments Backed With Facts! Run!

I…I think it’s finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in its tracks. If I’m right, all we have to do now is smugly reiterate our half-formed [...]

I Can’t Help Myself

I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t share this quote that “stevesien” left over in the Caledonia Courier “Were You Conned?”  comments section. The sheer, sparkling lunacy of it all just makes all weepy:
“Two hundred years from now, the 20th century won’t be remembered for penicillin or landing on the moon, but for the 12 Steps,” says Graeme [...]

feh

I found this letter to the editor posted on The Durango Herald, and was going to give it the old “Balls!” treatment, but after reading it over a few times, I found that I couldn’t. It appears to have been written by someone who has experienced a lifetime of incredible despair, and who ultimately found [...]

The Cat’s Away

I just wanted to let everyone know that MA is on vacation until next week. So, for your entertainment, Speedy and I will be performing Blog Kabuki and holding a staring contest.
Um.. Oh, hey! Wanna see something funny?

(I’m in love with their mothers day video.)

My Short AA Experience

My Short AA Experience
by Samuel Ross 
I’m twenty-five years old and I have been an alcoholic and a drug addict for about five years.  I say I have been rather than I am because I do not believe these addictions are a disease that anyone must live with for the entirety of their life, regardless of what [...]

Wait… What?

Did I slip through some kind of an interdimensional google wormhole? I found an article, in a mainstream news source (The Caledonia Courrier, in BC), titled “Were You Conned?” in which the word “con” refers to AA.
Go give them some love.
Here’s a little excerpt:
The perception and the hype surrounding these twelve step programs give everyone [...]