Martin Longman is one of the best bloggers on the Internet and, overall, a superb political writer and analyst. He has a blog Booman Tribune. He recently lost his brother who had been battling addiction.
There is nothing I can say to what he wrote about it except this:
This is a MUST READ: REQUIRED READING.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.