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Smashed Goes To Washington
Smashed Goes To Washington
has a lower-than-average rate of alcohol dependence for those aged 12-17 (the rate is 3 percent), it has a higher-than-average rate of alcohol dependence among those aged 26 and above (8.1 percent). Just about the age one graduates from grad school and enters politics, if one is so inclined.
The high alcohol dependence rate in our nation capital is most likely due, at least in part, to those wild parties (also known as the Democrats and Republicans). Yep, that right. political functions are often social functions. Atmany of these events the bubbly (and the hard stuff), flow like political rhetoric. (And on a side note, it seems that our tax dollars are picking up the tab).
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Is this a frat house or the federal government we talking about?
What do you get when you mix the cut-throat stress of politics,Cheap Isabel Marant Sneakers, a bitterly partisan atmosphere, and alcohol? You get a potent cocktail-let it Timebomb. had the occasion to visit several members of Congress with a group awhile back. We spent the morning meeting with our elected servants and the afternoon and early evening at a rather stuffy banquet in one of those mammoth government halls, listen to much speechifying by a different set of elected servants.
At one point I needed to leave the room and I got a bit lost on the way back and ended up at the other end of the building. I peeked into the wrong room and saw that this was where the real party was happening. Think Animal House,buyisabelmarantoutlet.webs.com, only with Ivy League degrees, hundred and twenty dollar ties, and cater-waiters.
Okay, maybe it wasn Animal House, but there was some staggering and slurring going on.
The logic behind that old euphemism used when referring to is undeniable. In politics either you are meeting with your political foes, at best a tense situation, or you cutting loose with your allies, which can be an excuse to, well, cut loose. Either way, seems to be the stress-reliever of choice. (Apparently there is a marijuana issue, too. I doubt that our elected officials are exempt from that sobering statisticwhether they hunkered down in the Executive,newisabelmarantoutlet.webs.com, Legislative, or Judicial hangouts or flying high.
We blogged in the past about the potential for drugs and alcohol abuse to trigger a latent mental illness (or even, over time and with abuse, cause mental illness)-and almost no demographic escapes this possibility, not even the Washingtonians. Interestingly enough, the Washingtonians was the name of an anti-slavery,cheapisabelmarantclub.webs.com, Maryland-based temperance group that preached total abstinence from alcohol and predated Alcoholics Anonymous. Eventually, they fizzled out. |
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