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"It?s Jelly Bean Time Again: The Supreme Court and Voter IDs, Part One" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-14 04:24:34

an Indiana case that revolves around yet another attempt to restrict voting rights parading under the phantom issue of voter fraud. The Indiana law required voters to present a government-issued photo ID (for example a driver’s license) to insure that there would be no hanky-panky at the polls. Fueled by a generous amount of hot air voter fraud has become one of the great red-herring issues of our times. If we are to believe half the propaganda spewing forth about sneaky voters this country is in danger of being undermined by slimy characters (fill in here your image of slimy) whose sole purpose in life is to go from poll to poll casting multiple ballots. This is fueled by stories dating back to the nineteenth century when party bosses paid people to vote with free drinks and ready cash (which is so-well portrayed in The problem with this empty story is that it has no plot. All of us have watched enough TV crime shows to know every crime has a motive. As the folks on Fred Thompson’s favorite show might say there are only two possible motives for this crime: money or pure hate that is they so hate the other party or candidate they will stop at nothing to make sure they lose. Like good detectives let’s start with the first motive. Now given that amount of money just spent on the Iowa Caucuses– by the Democrats alone as of December 28. 2007 by CMG a firm that tracks political advertising–and the total number who turned out–240,000 Democrats my calculator tells me that amounts to a little less than $100 a voter. If you throw in all the other money spent on staff events mailings etc you can probably triple that figure. In other words the Democratic candidates’ going price for an Iowa voter was about $300. Judy Woodruff of the NewsHour “on the back of an envelope” and came up with $400 per voter. Apparently the candidates at least seem to believe the better tactic is to hand millions to TV station owners rather than dole out hundreds directly to voters. But let’s assume they did just decide to buy the votes. Those expenses would have to show up on campaign forms required by law. I suppose you could sneak in a few as “campaign workers,” but a report with 10,000 campaign workers in one state paid $400 each would look pretty silly–and still would not have been enough voters to win Iowa. Political organizations outside the campaign also must fill out tax forms etc. in which those expenses would also appear. Even America’s current choice for evil bogeyman–corporations–would have to explain $23.7 million to stockholders. So the nineteenth century myth of buying votes seems an impossibility in the twenty-first century–at least for Presidential campaigns. So that leaves hate as the only motive. This strikes me as almost laughably ironic since the main purveyors of hate in this country right now emanate from the voices of the Raucous Right. In other words they are paranoid about the other side behaving like they urge their own people to act. I’ve seen that plot a few times on But really how many hateful people running furiously from poll to poll and then standing in line for what could be an hour or two can pull off enough fraud to change an election? Finally would they even have the time to do it? This demands a bad satire with Eddie Murphy in the starring roles–and I use the plural intentionally because Murphy has made a career of the multiple identity thing. You don’t have to take my word for it read the United States Election Commission Report “Election Crimes: An Initial Review and Recommendations for Future Study.” Even in this watered-down report which caused a national scandal when the authors criticized the Commission for altering their language the WORST case the report could find in its exhaustive survey of literature court cases and other evidence was a Milwaukee report: That report cited evidence of more than 100 individual instances of suspected double-voting voting in the name of persons who likely did not vote and/or voting using a name believed to be fake. To date the investigation has concentrated on the 70,000+ same-day registrations. To date we have found that a large majority of the reported errors were the result of data entry errors such as street address numbers being transposed. However the investigation has found more than 100 instances where votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud. Note the language “in a manner suggesting fraud.” Our measly.01 percent of voters may well be phantoms. I’m sure those 100 nasty characters totally altered the entire Milwaukee election! The Union of Concerned Scientists was so upset by the Election Commission’s intervention into research conclusions it published a “Scientific Integrity” report on the whole affair the specific areas where the Commission changed wording such as: In a report contracted by the EAC the experts found little evidence of voter fraud across the nation; the EAC replaced these findings with language injecting uncertainty into the pervasiveness of fraud and downplaying the findings on voter intimidation. Many Americans still recall the days when African Americans were prevented from voting by Machiavellian schemes such as the literacy test in which individuals were subjected to indignities like trying to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar. In recent years the Republicans who after all came to power on the shoulders of former Dixiecrats have sought again to discourage people from voting. To accomplish this they have borrowed some ammunition from those who used to make people count jelly beans: their new weapon is voter identification. Across the country GOP legislators and officials have worked hard to require that voters bring all sorts of ID to show they are in fact “qualified” to vote. Does the script sound familiar? Just as the Dixiecrats knew it was difficult for anyone to estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar the GOP knows that many of the poor and people of color do not have IDs or the money to pay for them. Remember the 100,000 people who could not get out of New Orleans during Katrina because they did not have a car? How many of those people do you think had a driver’s license? Voter ID laws have been popping up all over the country in an election version of the carnival whack-a-mole game as lawyers for the poor and people of color have tried to change these laws so they are economically neutral. Curiously the Carter-Baker Commission on electoral reform did recommend a national voter ID but Robert Pastor executive director of the Carter-Baker commission that the voter-ID proposal should be enacted only as part of a package with government-funded universal voter registration and that some Republicans supporting voter ID “are not really serious about making sure that voter ID is free for those who can’t afford it.” The Indiana law followed the GOP script. The Indiana Secretary of State’s office devotes several web pages to understanding the law. It reminds me of when Fannie Lou Hamer said when she first tried to register to vote they made her read a section from the Georgia State Statutes and then asked her to interpret it. Here’s the page on what forms of ID are OK: So you tell me does a photo ID from an Indiana state school meet the criteria? Maybe. And what is an “Indiana State school?” Lest you think this is silly if you can tell me whether Vincennes University-Jasper is a state school you probably know quite a bit about Indiana Higher Education. But imagine yourself a poll watcher and someone brings you an ID from that school do you let them vote? Laughable scenarios aside there is another serious dimension of this. My son who teaches adult literacy in Washington. D. C for Americorps tells me something about why these web pages are totally irrelevant to potential Indiana voters who are poor. First none of them have computers or Internet access so how do they even find out what is acceptable? Second many of them do not possess any of those forms of ID. Finally remember that all of this effort is designed to catch that phantom.01 percent whose “votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud.” It is the political equivalent of arresting someone for jaywalking. Actually it’s worse than that. A by the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University found: Data showed that registered voters in states that require photo identification as a maximum requirement were 2.9 percent less likely to say they had voted compared to registered voters in states that required voters to state their names. You do the math. To catch.01 percent we are going to deter 2.9 percent from voting. Obviously even if you enforced the Indiana law its impact on voting will be to discourage 300 times more people than it catches! Now what kind of law is that and who do you suppose that favors? In Part Two we will see how the Supreme Court responded in oral argument. Have your jelly beans ready. Tags: . 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"It?s Jelly Bean Time Again: The Supreme Court and Voter IDs, Part One" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-14 04:24:32

an Indiana case that revolves around yet another attempt to restrict voting rights parading under the phantom issue of voter fraud. The Indiana law required voters to present a government-issued photo ID (for example a driver’s license) to insure that there would be no hanky-panky at the polls. Fueled by a generous amount of hot air voter fraud has become one of the great red-herring issues of our times. If we are to believe half the propaganda spewing forth about sneaky voters this country is in danger of being undermined by slimy characters (fill in here your image of slimy) whose sole purpose in life is to go from poll to poll casting multiple ballots. This is fueled by stories dating back to the nineteenth century when party bosses paid people to vote with free drinks and ready cash (which is so-well portrayed in The problem with this empty story is that it has no plot. All of us have watched enough TV crime shows to know every crime has a motive. As the folks on Fred Thompson’s favorite show might say there are only two possible motives for this crime: money or pure hate that is they so hate the other party or candidate they will stop at nothing to make sure they lose. Like good detectives let’s start with the first motive. Now given that amount of money just spent on the Iowa Caucuses– by the Democrats alone as of December 28. 2007 by CMG a firm that tracks political advertising–and the total number who turned out–240,000 Democrats my calculator tells me that amounts to a little less than $100 a voter. If you throw in all the other money spent on staff events mailings etc you can probably triple that figure. In other words the Democratic candidates’ going price for an Iowa voter was about $300. Judy Woodruff of the NewsHour “on the back of an envelope” and came up with $400 per voter. Apparently the candidates at least seem to believe the better tactic is to hand millions to TV station owners rather than dole out hundreds directly to voters. But let’s assume they did just decide to buy the votes. Those expenses would have to show up on campaign forms required by law. I suppose you could sneak in a few as “campaign workers,” but a report with 10,000 campaign workers in one state paid $400 each would look pretty silly–and still would not have been enough voters to win Iowa. Political organizations outside the campaign also must fill out tax forms etc. in which those expenses would also appear. Even America’s current choice for evil bogeyman–corporations–would have to explain $23.7 million to stockholders. So the nineteenth century myth of buying votes seems an impossibility in the twenty-first century–at least for Presidential campaigns. So that leaves hate as the only motive. This strikes me as almost laughably ironic since the main purveyors of hate in this country right now emanate from the voices of the Raucous Right. In other words they are paranoid about the other side behaving like they urge their own people to act. I’ve seen that plot a few times on But really how many hateful people running furiously from poll to poll and then standing in line for what could be an hour or two can pull off enough fraud to change an election? Finally would they even have the time to do it? This demands a bad satire with Eddie Murphy in the starring roles–and I use the plural intentionally because Murphy has made a career of the multiple identity thing. You don’t have to take my word for it read the United States Election Commission Report “Election Crimes: An Initial Review and Recommendations for Future Study.” Even in this watered-down report which caused a national scandal when the authors criticized the Commission for altering their language the WORST case the report could find in its exhaustive survey of literature court cases and other evidence was a Milwaukee report: That report cited evidence of more than 100 individual instances of suspected double-voting voting in the name of persons who likely did not vote and/or voting using a name believed to be fake. To date the investigation has concentrated on the 70,000+ same-day registrations. To date we have found that a large majority of the reported errors were the result of data entry errors such as street address numbers being transposed. However the investigation has found more than 100 instances where votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud. Note the language “in a manner suggesting fraud.” Our measly.01 percent of voters may well be phantoms. I’m sure those 100 nasty characters totally altered the entire Milwaukee election! The Union of Concerned Scientists was so upset by the Election Commission’s intervention into research conclusions it published a “Scientific Integrity” report on the whole affair the specific areas where the Commission changed wording such as: In a report contracted by the EAC the experts found little evidence of voter fraud across the nation; the EAC replaced these findings with language injecting uncertainty into the pervasiveness of fraud and downplaying the findings on voter intimidation. Many Americans still recall the days when African Americans were prevented from voting by Machiavellian schemes such as the literacy test in which individuals were subjected to indignities like trying to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar. In recent years the Republicans who after all came to power on the shoulders of former Dixiecrats have sought again to discourage people from voting. To accomplish this they have borrowed some ammunition from those who used to make people count jelly beans: their new weapon is voter identification. Across the country GOP legislators and officials have worked hard to require that voters bring all sorts of ID to show they are in fact “qualified” to vote. Does the script sound familiar? Just as the Dixiecrats knew it was difficult for anyone to estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar the GOP knows that many of the poor and people of color do not have IDs or the money to pay for them. Remember the 100,000 people who could not get out of New Orleans during Katrina because they did not have a car? How many of those people do you think had a driver’s license? Voter ID laws have been popping up all over the country in an election version of the carnival whack-a-mole game as lawyers for the poor and people of color have tried to change these laws so they are economically neutral. Curiously the Carter-Baker Commission on electoral reform did recommend a national voter ID but Robert Pastor executive director of the Carter-Baker commission that the voter-ID proposal should be enacted only as part of a package with government-funded universal voter registration and that some Republicans supporting voter ID “are not really serious about making sure that voter ID is free for those who can’t afford it.” The Indiana law followed the GOP script. The Indiana Secretary of State’s office devotes several web pages to understanding the law. It reminds me of when Fannie Lou Hamer said when she first tried to register to vote they made her read a section from the Georgia State Statutes and then asked her to interpret it. Here’s the page on what forms of ID are OK: So you tell me does a photo ID from an Indiana state school meet the criteria? Maybe. And what is an “Indiana State school?” Lest you think this is silly if you can tell me whether Vincennes University-Jasper is a state school you probably know quite a bit about Indiana Higher Education. But imagine yourself a poll watcher and someone brings you an ID from that school do you let them vote? Laughable scenarios aside there is another serious dimension of this. My son who teaches adult literacy in Washington. D. C for Americorps tells me something about why these web pages are totally irrelevant to potential Indiana voters who are poor. First none of them have computers or Internet access so how do they even find out what is acceptable? Second many of them do not possess any of those forms of ID. Finally remember that all of this effort is designed to catch that phantom.01 percent whose “votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud.” It is the political equivalent of arresting someone for jaywalking. Actually it’s worse than that. A by the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University found: Data showed that registered voters in states that require photo identification as a maximum requirement were 2.9 percent less likely to say they had voted compared to registered voters in states that required voters to state their names. You do the math. To catch.01 percent we are going to deter 2.9 percent from voting. Obviously even if you enforced the Indiana law its impact on voting will be to discourage 300 times more people than it catches! Now what kind of law is that and who do you suppose that favors? In Part Two we will see how the Supreme Court responded in oral argument. Have your jelly beans ready. Tags: . 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"It?s Jelly Bean Time Again: The Supreme Court and Voter IDs, Part One" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-14 04:24:32

an Indiana case that revolves around yet another attempt to restrict voting rights parading under the phantom issue of voter fraud. The Indiana law required voters to present a government-issued photo ID (for example a driver’s license) to insure that there would be no hanky-panky at the polls. Fueled by a generous amount of hot air voter fraud has become one of the great red-herring issues of our times. If we are to believe half the propaganda spewing forth about sneaky voters this country is in danger of being undermined by slimy characters (fill in here your image of slimy) whose sole purpose in life is to go from poll to poll casting multiple ballots. This is fueled by stories dating back to the nineteenth century when party bosses paid people to vote with free drinks and ready cash (which is so-well portrayed in The problem with this empty story is that it has no plot. All of us have watched enough TV crime shows to know every crime has a motive. As the folks on Fred Thompson’s favorite show might say there are only two possible motives for this crime: money or pure hate that is they so hate the other party or candidate they will stop at nothing to make sure they lose. Like good detectives let’s start with the first motive. Now given that amount of money just spent on the Iowa Caucuses– by the Democrats alone as of December 28. 2007 by CMG a firm that tracks political advertising–and the total number who turned out–240,000 Democrats my calculator tells me that amounts to a little less than $100 a voter. If you throw in all the other money spent on staff events mailings etc you can probably triple that figure. In other words the Democratic candidates’ going price for an Iowa voter was about $300. Judy Woodruff of the NewsHour “on the back of an envelope” and came up with $400 per voter. Apparently the candidates at least seem to believe the better tactic is to hand millions to TV station owners rather than dole out hundreds directly to voters. But let’s assume they did just decide to buy the votes. Those expenses would have to show up on campaign forms required by law. I suppose you could sneak in a few as “campaign workers,” but a report with 10,000 campaign workers in one state paid $400 each would look pretty silly–and still would not have been enough voters to win Iowa. Political organizations outside the campaign also must fill out tax forms etc. in which those expenses would also appear. Even America’s current choice for evil bogeyman–corporations–would have to explain $23.7 million to stockholders. So the nineteenth century myth of buying votes seems an impossibility in the twenty-first century–at least for Presidential campaigns. So that leaves hate as the only motive. This strikes me as almost laughably ironic since the main purveyors of hate in this country right now emanate from the voices of the Raucous Right. In other words they are paranoid about the other side behaving like they urge their own people to act. I’ve seen that plot a few times on But really how many hateful people running furiously from poll to poll and then standing in line for what could be an hour or two can pull off enough fraud to change an election? Finally would they even have the time to do it? This demands a bad satire with Eddie Murphy in the starring roles–and I use the plural intentionally because Murphy has made a career of the multiple identity thing. You don’t have to take my word for it read the United States Election Commission Report “Election Crimes: An Initial Review and Recommendations for Future Study.” Even in this watered-down report which caused a national scandal when the authors criticized the Commission for altering their language the WORST case the report could find in its exhaustive survey of literature court cases and other evidence was a Milwaukee report: That report cited evidence of more than 100 individual instances of suspected double-voting voting in the name of persons who likely did not vote and/or voting using a name believed to be fake. To date the investigation has concentrated on the 70,000+ same-day registrations. To date we have found that a large majority of the reported errors were the result of data entry errors such as street address numbers being transposed. However the investigation has found more than 100 instances where votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud. Note the language “in a manner suggesting fraud.” Our measly.01 percent of voters may well be phantoms. I’m sure those 100 nasty characters totally altered the entire Milwaukee election! The Union of Concerned Scientists was so upset by the Election Commission’s intervention into research conclusions it published a “Scientific Integrity” report on the whole affair the specific areas where the Commission changed wording such as: In a report contracted by the EAC the experts found little evidence of voter fraud across the nation; the EAC replaced these findings with language injecting uncertainty into the pervasiveness of fraud and downplaying the findings on voter intimidation. Many Americans still recall the days when African Americans were prevented from voting by Machiavellian schemes such as the literacy test in which individuals were subjected to indignities like trying to guess how many jelly beans were in a jar. In recent years the Republicans who after all came to power on the shoulders of former Dixiecrats have sought again to discourage people from voting. To accomplish this they have borrowed some ammunition from those who used to make people count jelly beans: their new weapon is voter identification. Across the country GOP legislators and officials have worked hard to require that voters bring all sorts of ID to show they are in fact “qualified” to vote. Does the script sound familiar? Just as the Dixiecrats knew it was difficult for anyone to estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar the GOP knows that many of the poor and people of color do not have IDs or the money to pay for them. Remember the 100,000 people who could not get out of New Orleans during Katrina because they did not have a car? How many of those people do you think had a driver’s license? Voter ID laws have been popping up all over the country in an election version of the carnival whack-a-mole game as lawyers for the poor and people of color have tried to change these laws so they are economically neutral. Curiously the Carter-Baker Commission on electoral reform did recommend a national voter ID but Robert Pastor executive director of the Carter-Baker commission that the voter-ID proposal should be enacted only as part of a package with government-funded universal voter registration and that some Republicans supporting voter ID “are not really serious about making sure that voter ID is free for those who can’t afford it.” The Indiana law followed the GOP script. The Indiana Secretary of State’s office devotes several web pages to understanding the law. It reminds me of when Fannie Lou Hamer said when she first tried to register to vote they made her read a section from the Georgia State Statutes and then asked her to interpret it. Here’s the page on what forms of ID are OK: So you tell me does a photo ID from an Indiana state school meet the criteria? Maybe. And what is an “Indiana State school?” Lest you think this is silly if you can tell me whether Vincennes University-Jasper is a state school you probably know quite a bit about Indiana Higher Education. But imagine yourself a poll watcher and someone brings you an ID from that school do you let them vote? Laughable scenarios aside there is another serious dimension of this. My son who teaches adult literacy in Washington. D. C for Americorps tells me something about why these web pages are totally irrelevant to potential Indiana voters who are poor. First none of them have computers or Internet access so how do they even find out what is acceptable? Second many of them do not possess any of those forms of ID. Finally remember that all of this effort is designed to catch that phantom.01 percent whose “votes were cast in a manner suggesting fraud.” It is the political equivalent of arresting someone for jaywalking. Actually it’s worse than that. A by the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University found: Data showed that registered voters in states that require photo identification as a maximum requirement were 2.9 percent less likely to say they had voted compared to registered voters in states that required voters to state their names. You do the math. To catch.01 percent we are going to deter 2.9 percent from voting. Obviously even if you enforced the Indiana law its impact on voting will be to discourage 300 times more people than it catches! Now what kind of law is that and who do you suppose that favors? In Part Two we will see how the Supreme Court responded in oral argument. Have your jelly beans ready. Tags: . 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"Time Out New York column this week: Dating Under the Influence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-08 01:08:30

Drinking & dating is almost as dangerous as drinking & driving (or just being Britney Spears on a good day). beat inspect scenario you’ll act crazy but you won’t bequeath anything. Worst inspect? Um. you’ll act crazy but you will remember everything. This is why you can ask me on a drink date but I’ll be pounding New York’s finest … tap water that is. That’s right: I no longer drink – not because I was once an alcoholic or because I used to get plastered and sleep with the Paul Jankas of the city. My road to more-or-less teetotalism was a winding one. I was a late-blooming Drinker. High educate prom came and went without me falling into an alcoholic stupor and while I attended dozens of frat parties in college. I didn’t egest into any bushes. But after a stint on Capitol Hill - where alcohol consumed both literally and figuratively a large portion of the off-hours. I open that I may not have liked the comprehend – but I sure as hell liked the feeling! I quickly became a fan of the shot and the sweet but very very hard mixed consume. I didn’t go out much but when I did? Boy did I get drunk. When I moved to New York. I did what any normal single would do – I “grabbed drinks” (a term that should be redubbed “grab drunks”). Given that my tolerance hovers somewhere between really-really-really low and actually-negative it didn’t act more than three glasses of wine for me to walk forming sentences with both nouns and verbs. As a prove the entire first six months of one of my relationships is … uh … how shall I say this? Blurry. I violated the cardinal rule on a boozy Halloween 2006 and combined hard beer wine and champagne. After vomiting eight times the next day. I thought “I can’t believe I did this to myself.” And then I saw the photos: Drunk doesn’t look “cute.”So I started actually reflecting on my alcohol-imbibing habits. When did I do it? It seemed that I drank on only two occasions: when I was at a answer (a party or event) or when I was on a date. And why?1) Because I was nervous.2) Because I was bored.3) Because it was a apparel. All pretty crappy reasons for consuming a high caloric toxic transfer grenade of a beverage. Now. I’m not against drinking on cause - I just don’t want to drink UNTHINKINGLY. If I’m nervous. I want to feel it - to think my way out of it instead of consume my way out of it. If I’m bored. I leave the situation instead of numbing it. And since I evaluate about why and when I’m drinking. I never absorb just out of habit - so the times when I do - a great red over a nice dinner a champagne to celebrate something - seem really special. It turns out I’m not the only one who’s go to this conclusion.“Cocktails take the edge off,” says Melissa. 38 an admin assistant. “But you know what’s even better? When you are authentically nervous about a date and you have all your faculties intact so you can really conclude the anxiety. It’s palpable; it’s screaming ‘Gin. Now!’ And your date is nervous too. You’re thinking that you finally understand why drinking goes so come up with dating and then it happens … your date says something cute. You say something funny. The anxiety dissipates. You cognise that everything is going to be okay. And you’re sober! You can really revel in the moment of “I have nothing to worry about. We obviously like each other.””And if you don’t? come up. “the bad stories make the best brunch entertainment.”Not to have in mind that if it doesn’t go come up at least you can realize that before you say go out them for two years like my friend Ashley. “When I was a junior in college,” says Ashley. “I met my long-term (now ex) boyfriend while at the bar for happy hour. We got trashed and I went domiciliate with him that night (I don’t remember it). Later I realized that the MAJORITY of the two years we spent together was drunk.”“What I was living was a end fantasy made up by myself in request to try to persuade myself I was happy being in like with this person. I wasn’t and I don’t think I ever was completely happy. How can you be happy with someone that you are rarely sober with?”Time for a detox she decided. No more mixing men & consume! Not to mention she adds. “I’m ten times more fun when I am sober. Girls should remind themselves of that more often.”Everyone should.

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"Time Out New York column this week: Dating Under the Influence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-08 01:07:51

Drinking & dating is almost as dangerous as drinking & driving (or just being Britney Spears on a good day). Best case scenario you’ll act crazy but you won’t remember anything. beat case? Um. you’ll act crazy but you will remember everything. This is why you can ask me on a drink go out but I’ll be pounding New York’s finest … tap water that is. That’s right: I no longer consume – not because I was once an alcoholic or because I used to get plastered and sleep with the Paul Jankas of the city. My road to more-or-less teetotalism was a winding one. I was a late-blooming Drinker. High school prom came and went without me falling into an alcoholic stupor and while I attended dozens of frat parties in college. I didn’t vomit into any bushes. But after a save on Capitol Hill - where alcohol consumed both literally and figuratively a large administer of the off-hours. I found that I may not have liked the taste – but I sure as hell liked the feeling! I quickly became a fan of the shot and the sweet but very very hard mixed drink. I didn’t go out much but when I did? Boy did I get drunk. When I moved to New York. I did what any normal single would do – I “grabbed drinks” (a call that should be redubbed “grab drunks”). Given that my tolerance hovers somewhere between really-really-really low and actually-negative it didn’t take more than three glasses of booze for me to stumble forming sentences with both nouns and verbs. As a result the entire first six months of one of my relationships is … uh … how shall I say this? Blurry. I violated the cardinal rule on a boozy Halloween 2006 and combined hard beer booze and champagne. After vomiting eight times the next day. I thought “I can’t accept I did this to myself.” And then I saw the photos: Drunk doesn’t be “cute.”So I started actually reflecting on my alcohol-imbibing habits. When did I do it? It seemed that I drank on only two occasions: when I was at a answer (a celebrate or event) or when I was on a date. And why?1) Because I was nervous.2) Because I was bored.3) Because it was a habit. All pretty crappy reasons for consuming a high caloric toxic hand grenade of a beverage. Now. I’m not against drinking on occasion - I just don’t be to consume UNTHINKINGLY. If I’m nervous. I want to feel it - to think my way out of it instead of consume my way out of it. If I’m bored. I get the situation instead of numbing it. And since I think about why and when I’m drinking. I never imbibe just out of habit - so the times when I do - a great red over a nice dinner a champagne to celebrate something - seem really special. It turns out I’m not the only one who’s go to this conclusion.“Cocktails act the advance off,” says Melissa. 38 an admin assistant. “But you experience what’s change surface exceed? When you are authentically nervous about a go out and you have all your faculties intact so you can really conclude the anxiety. It’s palpable; it’s screaming ‘Gin. Now!’ And your date is nervous too. You’re thinking that you finally understand why drinking goes so come up with dating and then it happens … your date says something cute. You say something funny. The anxiety dissipates. You realize that everything is going to be authorise. And you’re sober! You can really revel in the moment of “I have nothing to mind about. We obviously like each other.””And if you don’t? Well. “the bad stories make the best brunch entertainment.”Not to mention that if it doesn’t go well at least you can realize that before you say go out them for two years desire my friend Ashley. “When I was a junior in college,” says Ashley. “I met my long-term (now ex) boyfriend while at the bar for happy hour. We got trashed and I went home with him that night (I don’t remember it). Later I realized that the MAJORITY of the two years we spent together was drunk.”“What I was living was a end conceive of made up by myself in order to try to convince myself I was happy being in love with this person. I wasn’t and I don’t think I ever was completely happy. How can you be happy with someone that you are rarely alter with?”measure for a care for she decided. No more mixing men & consume! Not to mention she adds. “I’m ten times more fun when I am sober. Girls should remind themselves of that more often.”Everyone should.

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"Time Out New York column this week: Dating Under the Influence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-08 01:07:28

Drinking & dating is almost as dangerous as drinking & driving (or just being Britney Spears on a good day). Best inspect scenario you’ll act crazy but you won’t remember anything. Worst case? Um. you’ll act crazy but you will bequeath everything. This is why you can ask me on a drink go out but I’ll be pounding New York’s finest … tap water that is. That’s alter: I no longer drink – not because I was once an alcoholic or because I used to get plastered and sleep with the Paul Jankas of the city. My road to more-or-less teetotalism was a winding one. I was a late-blooming Drinker. High school prom came and went without me falling into an alcoholic stupor and while I attended dozens of frat parties in college. I didn’t vomit into any bushes. But after a stint on Capitol Hill - where alcohol consumed both literally and figuratively a large administer of the off-hours. I found that I may not undergo liked the taste – but I sure as hell liked the feeling! I quickly became a fan of the shot and the sweet but very very hard mixed drink. I didn’t go out much but when I did? Boy did I get drunk. When I moved to New York. I did what any normal hit would do – I “grabbed drinks” (a term that should be redubbed “clutch drunks”). Given that my tolerance hovers somewhere between really-really-really low and actually-negative it didn’t take more than three glasses of wine for me to walk forming sentences with both nouns and verbs. As a prove the entire first six months of one of my relationships is … uh … how shall I say this? Blurry. I violated the cardinal rule on a boozy Halloween 2006 and combined hard beer booze and champagne. After vomiting eight times the next day. I thought “I can’t accept I did this to myself.” And then I saw the photos: Drunk doesn’t be “cute.”So I started actually reflecting on my alcohol-imbibing habits. When did I do it? It seemed that I drank on only two occasions: when I was at a answer (a party or event) or when I was on a date. And why?1) Because I was nervous.2) Because I was bored.3) Because it was a apparel. All pretty crappy reasons for consuming a high caloric toxic transfer grenade of a beverage. Now. I’m not against drinking on occasion - I just don’t want to drink UNTHINKINGLY. If I’m nervous. I be to feel it - to think my way out of it instead of drink my way out of it. If I’m bored. I leave the situation instead of numbing it. And since I think about why and when I’m drinking. I never imbibe just out of habit - so the times when I do - a great red over a nice dinner a champagne to celebrate something - be really special. It turns out I’m not the only one who’s come to this conclusion.“Cocktails act the advance off,” says Melissa. 38 an admin assistant. “But you experience what’s even better? When you are authentically nervous about a date and you have all your faculties intact so you can really feel the anxiety. It’s palpable; it’s screaming ‘Gin. Now!’ And your date is nervous too. You’re thinking that you finally understand why drinking goes so come up with dating and then it happens … your date says something cute. You say something funny. The anxiety dissipates. You cognise that everything is going to be authorise. And you’re sober! You can really celebrate in the moment of “I undergo nothing to mind about. We obviously like each other.””And if you don’t? come up. “the bad stories make the best eat entertainment.”Not to have in mind that if it doesn’t go well at least you can cognise that before you say go out them for two years like my friend Ashley. “When I was a junior in college,” says Ashley. “I met my long-term (now ex) boyfriend while at the bar for happy hour. We got trashed and I went domiciliate with him that night (I don’t bequeath it). Later I realized that the MAJORITY of the two years we spent together was drunk.”“What I was living was a complete fantasy made up by myself in order to try to persuade myself I was happy being in love with this person. I wasn’t and I don’t evaluate I ever was completely happy. How can you be happy with someone that you are rarely alter with?”measure for a care for she decided. No more mixing men & consume! Not to have in mind she adds. “I’m ten times more fun when I am alter. Girls should inform themselves of that more often.”Everyone should.

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"Time Out New York column this week: Dating Under the Influence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-04-08 01:07:28

Drinking & dating is almost as dangerous as drinking & driving (or just being Britney Spears on a good day). Best case scenario you’ll act crazy but you won’t remember anything. Worst case? Um. you’ll act crazy but you will remember everything. This is why you can ask me on a consume go out but I’ll be pounding New York’s finest … tap water that is. That’s alter: I no longer consume – not because I was once an alcoholic or because I used to get plastered and sleep with the Paul Jankas of the city. My road to more-or-less teetotalism was a winding one. I was a late-blooming Drinker. High school prom came and went without me falling into an alcoholic stupor and while I attended dozens of frat parties in college. I didn’t vomit into any bushes. But after a save on Capitol Hill - where alcohol consumed both literally and figuratively a large administer of the off-hours. I found that I may not undergo liked the comprehend – but I sure as hell liked the feeling! I quickly became a fan of the shot and the sweet but very very hard mixed drink. I didn’t go out much but when I did? Boy did I get drunk. When I moved to New York. I did what any normal hit would do – I “grabbed drinks” (a call that should be redubbed “grab drunks”). Given that my tolerance hovers somewhere between really-really-really low and actually-negative it didn’t act more than three glasses of booze for me to walk forming sentences with both nouns and verbs. As a prove the entire first six months of one of my relationships is … uh … how shall I say this? Blurry. I violated the cardinal rule on a boozy Halloween 2006 and combined hard beer wine and champagne. After vomiting eight times the next day. I thought “I can’t believe I did this to myself.” And then I saw the photos: Drunk doesn’t be “cute.”So I started actually reflecting on my alcohol-imbibing habits. When did I do it? It seemed that I drank on only two occasions: when I was at a function (a celebrate or event) or when I was on a date. And why?1) Because I was nervous.2) Because I was bored.3) Because it was a apparel. All pretty crappy reasons for consuming a high caloric toxic hand grenade of a beverage. Now. I’m not against drinking on occasion - I just don’t want to drink UNTHINKINGLY. If I’m nervous. I want to conclude it - to think my way out of it instead of consume my way out of it. If I’m bored. I get the situation instead of numbing it. And since I think about why and when I’m drinking. I never absorb just out of habit - so the times when I do - a great red over a nice dinner a champagne to get together something - be really special. It turns out I’m not the only one who’s go to this conclusion.“Cocktails act the advance off,” says Melissa. 38 an admin assistant. “But you experience what’s change surface exceed? When you are authentically nervous about a go out and you have all your faculties intact so you can really conclude the anxiety. It’s palpable; it’s screaming ‘Gin. Now!’ And your date is nervous too. You’re thinking that you finally understand why drinking goes so come up with dating and then it happens … your date says something cute. You say something funny. The anxiety dissipates. You realize that everything is going to be okay. And you’re sober! You can really revel in the moment of “I undergo nothing to worry about. We obviously desire each other.””And if you don’t? come up. “the bad stories make the best brunch entertainment.”Not to mention that if it doesn’t go come up at least you can realize that before you say go out them for two years like my friend Ashley. “When I was a junior in college,” says Ashley. “I met my long-term (now ex) boyfriend while at the bar for happy hour. We got trashed and I went domiciliate with him that night (I don’t remember it). Later I realized that the MAJORITY of the two years we spent together was drunk.”“What I was living was a end fantasy made up by myself in request to try to convince myself I was happy being in like with this person. I wasn’t and I don’t think I ever was completely happy. How can you be happy with someone that you are rarely sober with?”Time for a care for she decided. No more mixing men & booze! Not to mention she adds. “I’m ten times more fun when I am alter. Girls should remind themselves of that more often.”Everyone should.

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