“But their problem was that no matter how many Pottery Barn windows they smashed, their fathers were still important figures in their respective chambers of commerce. The thing seem insoluble”
Ecochondriacs, p. 26
America’s Stony Heart
Introduction: Hardness of heart is a sophomoric sin. And by saying this, I am saying that hardness of heart knows how to argue in the direction of what seems to be its own interests. Those arguments ...
A Basic Choice
“She had been staring at some briefs in her brief case, and then went into the laundry room and stared at some briefs in the laundry basket, and decided that work was work wherever you are, but that she preferred being with people she loved instead of being with people she didn’t”
Ecochondriacs, p. 23
Letters Are Abettors to More Letters
Letter to the Editor: "The Fiasco of No Fear" While reflecting on the inverse relationship of the fear of God with the fear of man, I came up with the following question: Given how so much ...
Which Is Not Unpleasant
“For the last few years he had felt like he was living in an invisible cloud of mojo”
Ecochondriacs, p. 21
Would There Have Been Civil Government Without the Fall?
Correction: There is an error in the sentence below, which I have struck from the essay: "Rutherford distinguishes “power of government and power of government by magistracy” (Q2, emphasis mine). ...
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His Own Private Heights
“The problem with all such proposals was that even though Brock Tilton was a cold-hearted bastard, he did have one hot passion. That one hot passion was the jet fuel he used in order to fly his insane ambition up to his own private heights. By this point in his career, he almost qualified as an astronaut.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 17
Only Right
Resulting in Fizzing in the Ears
“She felt like her skull was a bone box full of water and that somebody had dumped about twenty-five Alka-Seltzer tablets into it”
Ecochondriacs, p. 6
No Categories
“This was an ethical dilemma with a fire in the attic. This was an ethical dilemma with the brakes gone clean out at the very top of the switchback grade”
Ecochondriacs, pp. 5-6