Regarding Willpower

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Dr. Dave: Bill, here's a letter to us from Mona, who's 34 and already twice divorced -- both times from drunks. "You know what's wrong with men in America?" she writes us. "All this talk about addiction being a 'disease' -- which is just some lefty, liberal, new-age babble put out by people like you two. What's wrong is that it keeps men from developing a backbone, and taking responsibility for their lives, their families and marriages. Even AA says people who drink suffer from a character defect. Meaning they're morally weak and deficient in willpower, right?"

Bill: Mona, let's talk about willpower. Take an alcoholic or drug addict without a penny in his pocket. Deposit him, friendless and alone, in a blue-nose town (like the old-time Philadelphia that W.C. Fields used to bemoan). Dump him there at 6 a.m. Sunday morning, broke and hungover, the bars and liquor stores closed. He'll find a way to get high before noon. That's willpower.

That's comedy...