But anyone without glasses can tell the difference between running down a stairwell and running straight towards a huge square of daylight.
That’s poor reporting.
It was the media’s medium day off.
I wonder if not being able to see very well meant not that he couldn’t see it at all but misjudged distances.
What I remember is, “Rats bounce, humans die, horses splatter,” but that was referring to a fall of a few stories, not 22.
Aside: The essay that quote is from is actually about politics. After all that bit about animals needing to be the right size, he turns it into governments needing to be the right size.
Win Pane Dolt?
I was wondering if the man was suicidal, and this was how he decided to take himself out.
It took him two months to work up his officemate Jeff into a competitive lather (including sending his wife flowers), all so that he’d insist on an athletic contest.
On the day that it all came to a head, the office dartboard was missing, Jeff’s basketball was deflated, and his shoelaces had been snipped, so “Barefoot Footrace” was the only option…
As someone unfortunately with some experience in the matter, a party where you are celebrating a holiday with people and engaged in an impromptu foot race is one of the least likely circumstances that a person would intentionally choose to end their life.
Fun fact: There’s a racehorse in the UK with that name.
I was gonna say, great superhero name.
Haldane’s Rule of the Right Size
There’s no truth or justice here, and it’s certainly not my idea of the American Way.
Nice of her to confirm that she was unwilling to follow rules and regulations. A pity she also failed on the “honoring God” part.
So…where can I get a library card application?
Depending on God to send them money seems like a poor financial plan, though I am not an accountant or have any sort of business background.
The paranoia is fascinating. “They’re coming for you! They want your children dead!” Jesus Christ. I don’t understand how you confront such a pathology except by brute force—i.e., outnumber ‘em, relentless opposition, etc. There is no getting through to them.
It must be exhausting to be sane in places like that.
If a list of books that crackpots want banned is published, that will only encourage folks to check them out. When I was in high school Spanish we read a book that the publishers of the school edition said had three small portions excised to make it ok for young people. First thing I did, and some others as well, was to go to the city library to find out what we were missing. I was quite disappointed, and to even my young mind those bits were fairly PG.
No gay characters? Oooh, one of my favorite series, the Nantucket trilogy by Stirling, has a prominent character who is lesbian, with a partner. Marian is a tough Coast Guard officer, and she and her partner have instructed thier two young(adopted) daughters to gang up on anyone who bullies them for having two moms. Don’t mess with Marian.
Somewhere I still have this button from the 80s,
I can’t find it online (of course) but I saw a comic where a woman is at a table passing out copies of a list of books that should be banned. Another woman is shown picking up a copy. In the second panel the woman who picked up the list is passing out (presumably) copies of the list and saying, “Class, this is our reading list for this year”.