Hat Tip and thanks to TDA reader Norm for the heads up on this one!
It’s being reported that one of my least favorite alcoholics, Andy Dick, will participate in reality show called Sober Living. Locking up a bunch of media whores in a Hollywood mansion full of cameras with celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky is not what I would call a serious attempt at sobriety. In fact, this type of televised in-house treatment is more of an alcoholic oxymoron.
An alcoholic oxymoron is formed when terms are combined that are incongruous or contradictory when considered in context with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery issues. A good example I used recently is when golf pro and alcoholic John Daly talked about his recent “controlled drinking”. Of course we all know that an alcoholic that is even considering drinking is already effectively, out of control.
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The names, places, and circumstances may vary, but you can be rest assured that most alcoholics and addicts follow a very predictable path. The same rationalizations, secrecy, prevarications and red herrings are used by gutter drunks to Boston bluebloods as if they were all using the same playbook; I call it 
