AKDragonFish3D

Family v. Alcohol - A personal experience/advice/guidance from a friend helping a friend with alcoholism. The past, and my regrets until now My friend, we will call him Dan for the sake of this article, has been drinking a lot, to the point where everyone has noticed that it has migrated beyond just "i like booze" to an addiction, or alcoholism, or however you want to put it. I've seen it coming since he moved back from the other side of the state for work.  I do not know what happened to him on the other side of our massive state, but something has pushed him over the edge and into a bottle.  I have mentioned it to him, my family has mentioned it to him, his family has mentioned it to him, and yet Dan just treats it as normal behavior and moves on.... but it's not normal. My regrets are not speaking my mind about this until now.  I had a chance to speak my mind last year, and the year before when he got back from the other side of the state.  Now things have escalat...

Today's Friday Night Fights blog will be more real-world, as I'll talk about my observations of the Ukraine War that is going on right now.  Needless to say I am none to pleased by how this is being handled, nor how my weird brain is predicting the outcomes of this.  This may sound like a rant or an opinion piece, and that's fine by me. ------------------------------------------ First on my observations of how it is being handled.  This is not 19-teens.  This is not World War 1.  Stop treating it like it.  Everything I learned in history class about WW1 growing up through the 80s and 90s, and everything I learned as an adult reading past wars as a hobby clearly defines this as a moment where we didn't learn, and now history is repeating itself. Russia invades Ukraine.  Russia tells its people one thing, but also cut off comms from the rest of the world.  From what I could gather from the web, the Russian people might as well be back in the early 1...