Apologies for the slow posting yesterday/today. It’s Spring Break, even for graduate students. So I’m taking the rest of today off… sd&if will be back on track Monday!

To honor the weekend’s arrival, there’s this:

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticism of the sober hours. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no: drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. It is in fact the great exciter of the yes function in man.

-William James, from The Varieties of Religious Experience

Happy weekending!