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Constitutional Crisis?

I have remained silent on all my anti-social media platforms. As much as I have wanted to respond, correct, engage and persuade, I have…

Nov 6, 2024

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Nov 6, 2024

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Dog People

One of the great injustices in life is that the average human lifespan is so much longer than that of the average dog. For those of us who…

Dec 30, 2021

Dog People

Dec 30, 2021

Riding Off Into the Sunset

Today is the last day of the semester at California State University, Sacramento. Next Wednesday, grades are due, and the 2024/2025…

3d ago

Riding Off Into the Sunset

3d ago

I used to drop acid and take shrooms in my teens and 20s.

I have no idea how much a microdose is. I do know that different types of mushrooms got me higher than others and, usually, the more I took…

Mar 2

Mar 2

I can't tell you how many times I have heard this quasi-spiritual horseshit in the two decades I've…

It is common that we will change who we associate with, especially in early recovery. But who is to say that those former friends need what…

Jan 26

Jan 26

Twilight

It’s About Time and… Money

Jan 17

Twilight

Jan 17

Whose vernacular?

There is a certain attraction to the informality that AA (and NA and other "As") deal with the disease of alcoholism (yea, they call it…

Jan 6

Jan 6

This, from a basic argumentation theory standpoint, is a terrible argument because it is so easily…

Dec 19, 2024

Dec 19, 2024

In Another life

As if in another life, almost another world, and certainly when I was a much different man, I wore many different hats. They have been ball…

Dec 11, 2024

In Another life

Dec 11, 2024

every.single.fucking.day

Twenty years ago today I “celebrated” my 42nd trip around the sun. Why the scare quotes? There are two reasons, really. The first is simple…

Dec 6, 2024

every.single.fucking.day

Dec 6, 2024

Michael Althouse

Michael Althouse

Lecturer/professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. www.michaelalthouse.com

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