Saturday, December 24, 2005

A Cure for Liberalism

Before I took this job, I had very little Internet access. The WWW had been around for only five years. Since starting here about 12 years ago, I figure I've been on-line about 24,000 hours. On slow news nights, I often just Google random words or phrases. Or, I study things that interest me. I was doing that tonight when I found the perfect cure for liberalism -- AA's 12-step program.
  1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human beings the exact nature of our wrongs
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
  7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
Can you imagine what would happen if liberals started doing this? Howard Dean would have to go back to practicing medicine. I don't know if that's a good thing.

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