>What are you doing? You agreed 100% with Tamar not to do this.
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>In case anybody cares: last year MB came to a trade show in New Orleans. He did not drink a drop, was a gentleman, and though he does not know it - I have a sales lead who met him asking whether he'll be along next time as he was credible and personable.
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>To Mike: this is taking too long. What's the problem - why no rehab? Is Mike Cole right? As the days turn into weeks, I'm concerned you might not get it sorted in time to join us at the end of September.


Actually I wasn't going to say very much until this recent B.S. about alcohol fostering the creative process, the empty lecturing to Mike Cole ("wait until you get older"), and this notion that a person's needs are what they have "going for them".

All of them are rooted in the same issue - that he's making excuses for not getting better.

And your concern about him "getting better" in time for the conference - a real head-scratcher there, JR...