Letter to the Editor: Hear Hear to the whole thing. But you could have added an explanatory sentence that one of the nefarious things the husband in the play did was to turn down the GAS ...
Lots to Talk About Tuesday
Taking Its Sweet Time
“The remaining twenty minutes crawled by like rapidly cooling magma.”
Gaslighting the Goobers
Introduction: So I want to discuss the massive gaslighting operation that is going on all around us, even as we speak, and in order to accomplish this, I need to do two basic things. First, I need to define gaslighting, and then I need to wax philosophical for a wee bit beyond that. I want …
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Clueless
“The next morning, while brushing her perfect white teeth, the truth revealed by her manifest and palpable relief over the whole thing came crashing in on her, and so she sat down and acknowledged to herself what was in fact the case. She was a goner. And he was clueless. High-minded. An office full of thick books. Accreditation visits. Scholarly articles. All of that. Stupid man. Dear stupid, stupid man.”
And Quite Satisfying
An Actual Handicap
“For Maria was a beauty. And she had decided some years before that there was quite possibly an inverse relationship between feminine beauty and feminine happiness. When she first came to Choctaw Valley, it had taken her almost a year to make any friends at all. Most of the boys were terrified of her, and those who weren’t scared of her were terrified of what the other girls would do if they even talked to her. And needless to say, the girls were usually pretty sullen around her, although in a sweet southern way. All they ever wanted to do whenever they were with her was go to the restroom to check their makeup.”
Admittedly . . .
“Maria Barancho had been a fixture at Choctaw Valley for some years now, but she was an odd-out sort of fixture. She was a black-haired, brown-eyed Italian in the midst of a bunch of pale Celts who, for some reason, liked to think of themselves as Anglo-Saxons. This is like a German confusing himself with a Frenchman, but the history is admittedly complicated.”
A Brief Rejoinder to Preston Sprinkle
Introduction: I met Preston Sprinkle a few years ago in Denver when we debated the question of guns for a Q conference. He was affable, well-spoken, and intelligent. We got on well. At the ...
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An Acquired Taste
“He was a sturdy young man—a fellow that people usually considered good looking, eventually and somewhat reluctantly, after they had gotten over their first shock. Trevor was an acquired taste.”
Grateful for Tuesdays
Letter to the Editor: "Trump represents that kind of threat for all kinds of reasons, mostly having to do with the divine sense of humor." LOL. Isn't that the truth! Mike ...