Friday
A hunter and his eagle, Mongolia. Eric Esterle/Nat Geo photo at Google Images:
Many academics are outraged that the free speech of those defending Hamas is threatened. I wonder how many lamented the shutdown of those who argued against BLM, the canonization of George Floyd, and those on the right who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. I don’t want the terrorists’ backers silenced. I like knowing who the enemy is. Meanwhile, headline from foxnews.com: “Michigan Dem says violent pro-Palestinian DNC protest ‘rattled’ her more than Jan. 6 riots.” She may have set herself up for lots of hate mail.
Cartoon from Tom Stiglich:
Here are the first few paragraphs of my most recent short story, 681:
Greg Davis sprinted down the street, bullets whizzing past him, ricocheting off concrete and fences. He went underground, into the R subway station at 65th Street. Fortunately, a train was pulling in and he hopped aboard, staring out a window. His assailants were nowhere in sight. Breathing fast, he’d attracted the stares of fellow passengers, who returned to their electronic devices.
If you only knew, he thought, taking a seat.
He couldn’t remember the last time he’d run so hard. Although he never exercised, he remained trim at 42.
There weren’t many commuters on this Sunday afternoon, post pandemic. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes, trying to relax. Why had he run — because the men who called out to him were Black? Why had the lunatic opened fire, risked striking an innocent bystander? He wasn’t Jewish, Muslim, a gangbanger or in debt. He had zero interest in politics. He’d just moved to the neighborhood from Queens, unable to resist the deal offered him by a recently divorced co-worker who lived alone in a two-family house. She wanted a male presence to deter predators.
Now you know why, he thought, running fingers through his light brown hair.
Photo from GI:
The outgoing dwarfed the incoming today at the floating book shop. My thanks to the gentleman who delivered seven works of fiction, and to all the buyers, especially Revilo/Oliver, who took home ten works of non-fiction. Here’s what else sold: The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin, The Pain Colony by Shanon Hunt, a pamphlet on the Declaration of Independence, Juiceman’s Power of Juicing by Jay Kordich, two hardcovers in Russian. I am blessed.
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