The I'm-OK-You're-a-Dick Award…

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…goes to the Hudson Institute's Ronald W. Dworkin*, for this comment in support of his book Artificial Happiness:

I'm not judging people who take Artificial Happiness. In fact, I feel sorry for them.

Recorded by BookTV, 06/20/06.

From that great Sands showroom in the sky, Frank Sinatra has the rebuttal:

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

* Dworkin, who is a different guy than NYU law professor Ronald M. Dworkin, also placed in the I-Alone-Am-Escaped-from-Plato's-Cave cup and received an honorable mention in the So-You'd-Better-Listen-To-Me crown derby.