---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
No alcoholics in my immediate family. Sometimes I just like crusty old bastards. I have to shut down now. I have a couple of prescriptions I have to fill at the local hospital. They want to stick some needles in this old body of mine so they can construct a time line to the grave. There was no one in my family like Barry by the way. My best friend, who lives several thousands of miles away, whom I met in what is here called middle school, is a crusty old atheist scientist. He has no conception of spirituality at all and never seems interested in philosophical discussions. So this place, FFL, provides an opportunity for discussion, with its varied and mostly insane clientèle. Perhaps I am a lawyer; every scoundrel deserves a defence; would you deny Barry counsel? Free speech has a hard, sharp edge to it, especially to wimpy, contracted minds unaccustomed to thinking. You do all right though, there is hope for you. Lucky you having an addict-free home. You are in the minority I fear. Good luck at the hospital - I have a visceral fear of the place. I definitely don't want to die in one. Crusty old bastards are fine as far as they go but after a while it gets a little old when they can only continue to sing middle C and then bang on the piano until the keys fall off.
