Where is the Justice Here? Or There?
Where is the justice here? Last week I sent the copy edited manuscript for my new book back to the copy editor. It should be out in September. It’s a lovely book, more than an academic tome and less than a work of fiction. It is a type of memoir with no kiss and telling. Its original title was Melting Apace—Walden is melting apace . . . Walden was dead and is alive again. But the publisher needed a title which would pop up easily in searches on Amazon.com, and so it is now named Religion, Pedagogy and Practice: Reflections on Teaching and Ethics. It should now appear on almost any random search! Who cares? Press run far less than 1000 copies. Far less.
I heard this evening that the first run of the seventh and final volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, is 12,000,000. That's twelve million! Go figure!
Where is the justice here? My new transmission will cost $2,000.00. I don’t have that kind of spare cash. I can afford it, but barely. Because I can’t really afford a new car.
I see where the CEO for Blockbuster, John Antico, has settled his dispute with the company, and will step down as the company’s head by the end of the year. He will receive a $3.1 million bonus for 2006 and a severance package of about $5 million dollars. That’s million! Last year my raise amounted to almost several thousand dollars. That’s thousand! Go figure!
Where is the justice here? We acknowledge the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. George asks the country to be patient. Is he kidding? In order to have patience, one has to expect something to finally occur. No one expects George to end the war. I’m not sure George knows exactly how to get out of the White House bathroom. He and his administration have been lying for years. Now he says that Rove and Miers (my word, she was almost a Supreme Court Justice!) may testify before Congressional committees but not under oath. And there shouldn’t be any transcript of their testimony. Just an eighteen minute gap in the conversation, huh? Go figure!
Still listening to Dylan’s Modern Times. “Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes.”
I heard this evening that the first run of the seventh and final volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, is 12,000,000. That's twelve million! Go figure!
Where is the justice here? My new transmission will cost $2,000.00. I don’t have that kind of spare cash. I can afford it, but barely. Because I can’t really afford a new car.
I see where the CEO for Blockbuster, John Antico, has settled his dispute with the company, and will step down as the company’s head by the end of the year. He will receive a $3.1 million bonus for 2006 and a severance package of about $5 million dollars. That’s million! Last year my raise amounted to almost several thousand dollars. That’s thousand! Go figure!
Where is the justice here? We acknowledge the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War. George asks the country to be patient. Is he kidding? In order to have patience, one has to expect something to finally occur. No one expects George to end the war. I’m not sure George knows exactly how to get out of the White House bathroom. He and his administration have been lying for years. Now he says that Rove and Miers (my word, she was almost a Supreme Court Justice!) may testify before Congressional committees but not under oath. And there shouldn’t be any transcript of their testimony. Just an eighteen minute gap in the conversation, huh? Go figure!
Still listening to Dylan’s Modern Times. “Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes.”
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