That Sort of Pother
“And at just that moment, there was a clatter and a rustle and pother of self-importance at the door of the office, and three women, of the protesting variety, came in.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 57
Warts and All
“That left him with nothing but guilt, and the unpleasant sensation of being the moral equivalent of a three-inch green tree frog”
Ecochondriacs, p. 48
The Duties of Christian Cops
Introduction: So we live in topsy turvy times, do we not? That being the case, we need to budget for the topsies turving, and turvies topsing. We all need to do a little better at anticipating what ...
Spiritual Salmon
“One time they had given him a little monologue, which he had delivered straight to camera, which argued that if you divided the name Adam into two words, a dam, you could see how easy it was for our humanity to become a blockage to the divine energy. If you wanted the energy to flow, you really needed to blow up that dam. It had occurred to Montenegro while he was delivering this particular message that this also had the added blessing of freeing up all the spiritual salmon, but he didn’t say anything about that”
Ecochondriacs, pp. 44-45
A Bit of Air Mail
Letter to the Editor: You say in Monday's "Death Cult": "But a corollary of the second position is that Darwin was wrong about everything . . ." this reality is also a major corollary of ...
No Right to Amazement
“‘Divorce?’ He had no right to be amazed at the prospect of divorce appearing suddenly like this, but it is often the case that delusional people experience feelings that they have no right to experience”
Ecochondriacs, p. 42
The Death Cult of Expressive Individualism
Introduction: The battle of our time is the war between those who demand their right to be creators, over against those who seek to defend their right to be creatures. Everything comes down to that simple division. The Two Ways: A corollary of the first position—that we must be untrammeled creators, that we must be …
Just Have to Keep at It
“How you learned how to type with those bratwurst fingers of yours beats me”
Ecochondriacs, p. 36