vituperation

December 20, 2002

Many thanks to reader Mary for sending me both Kick Me! and On Writing from my Amazon wish list, they are greatly appreciated. Additionally, many thanks to reader Sean for sending me A Walk in the Woods from my Amazon wish list, it is also greatly appreciated. If you guys would be so kind as to email me so I can thank you properly, I’d be a most happy camper.

Many thanks (I’m one thankful bastard today) also to readers Liz and Kaity for their contributions of $3 and $5 to the Huntsville Animal Shelter, those are also greatly appreciated.

I’ve found something interesting and humorous: In every email entry (save one) for my current contest about the letter from an editor to my agent - where people assumed the sex of the editor, people assumed the editor was male.

She ain’t.

Questions for pondering:

Why does it seem that the people who most loudly cry out for tolerance are the most intolerant?

Why are the teenage girls today so enamored with Frodo the Hobbit?

Why must we celebrate our differences in the name of diversity instead of celebrating that which we have in common in the name of unity?

Why does it rain a day or two before every hike I plan?

Why can’t we all just get along?

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Why do I find this commercial so damn funny?

Why does the “party of liberty” seem to keep wanting to take away a little more of it each day? Here’s today’s, if you hadn’t heard.

Is this the greatest Survivor moment ever, or what?

Is there really a vast right wing conspiracy?

Why does Sean Penn think anyone really gives a rat’s ass about his opinion on Iraq?

Where’s Waldo?

Why do so many spammers think I’m interested in increasing the size of my penis by three inches? Is there something I don’t know?

Isn’t it ironic that to get into the Sheriff’s office to pick up a license to carry a concealed weapon I had to go through a metal detector search to prove I wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon?