Key West — The group of elderly tourists whose presence at the Chinese restaurant we dined in had only added to the quiet stolidity of the place must have stopped for a nightcap when they left half an hour ahead of us, because by the time we saw them again, in front of the library [...]
Archive for the ‘The fundamentals’ Category
Personhood and Peace in Our Time
February 24, 2012
I got an idea that could end the whole Republican war on women. In fact in the essence of bilateralism, that’s where I got the idea. Call it the sincerest form of flattery, if you will, the idea is this: A Personhood Amendment for Women. It would define women as people, too, and make any [...]
At Church
February 24, 2012
MegaChurch, Fl — I learned at church the other day that you can buy a set of highlighters specifically marketed to use on your bible. The thin pages may require a particularly delicate highlighter. I don’t know, but you also can get a four-color pen that is sold as a bible underlining tool. In the [...]
I’m pro-abortion
February 6, 2012
In Zambia, where a woman who wants to terminate a pregnancy must get a doctor’s note saying her life would be endangered if she did not, physicians address this restriction in a logical way. The doctors ask their patients what they would do if they do not get permission for a legal abortion. Invariably, in [...]
Egare
January 27, 2012
It means, well, mentally slow. It’s one of those words you don’t get too many opportunities to say, so it was hard to define. Does it mean retarded? No, not exactly, the teacher said, more like if you tell someone to go this way (he gestured with his left hand) and they go right, instead. [...]
TMI About Religion
December 29, 2011
LANTANA, FL — A few years ago, it was my misfortune to work under a supervisor who on Monday mornings often thought it appropriate to mention as casually as if discussing the weather what the pastor of his church had said the day before. I don’t know if it was good news or bad, thoughtful [...]
Down and Out in Palm Beach County
November 12, 2008
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — Recently about 100 or so people I worked with were “excessed,” in one day. Being “excessed,” — and no, that’s not what our former employers called it, but with the door thrown open to 100 with only an urging not to let it hit us on the way out, what [...]
