For today’s mailbag, I think I’m going to leave one for tomorrow and answer some of the more fun comments I’ve had. I had this in response to my bit on Fairness:
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All about the standing-upright chimps that really love to talk about themselves.
Fairness
Fairness is an important concept in this thing we call Civilization. If we all lived as hunters and gatherers on the grasslands, we wouldn’t have a lot of interaction with large groups of people. The inevitable disputes that arise could be settled by a simple code or the intervention of an elder.
School Daze
Tuesday was the first day of school.
My kids are old enough that it’s not that big of a deal. Yes, they were looking forward to seeing their friends again. No, they didn’t like the idea of sitting in a structured environment all day. The week leading up to the big event was a combination of fear and hope, happiness and depression.
Ethnicity
I am an ethnic Pennsylvanian.
That may not make much sense to most people, but it does to me. This statement goes to the core of what ethnicity is and the strange fascination we have with it here in North America.
Who Ya Know
I like to think I’ve found the secret to life.
I realize that’s rather arrogant, so bear with me for a while. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m prone to grandious statements and deep subjects. By doing this I’m trying to provoke people to think outside of the constraints their everyday lives have clamped on their thinking.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 