a pre-emptive attack
I’m not a well woman.
I was sitting in the car at one of the billions of stop-lights in Chicago this afternoon absent-mindedly rubbing my 4 day old beard growth searching for rogue hairs.
I found one and couldn’t wait to get home and pull it out.
I have mutant hairs. Not many, but a few and they manifest themselves whenever I decide to cultivate my creative side in facial hair.
“Mutant?” you gasp? (as well you should!)
“Yes, mutant!”
A few hairs decide to co-habitat in a single pore but end up mutating together into a sorta of “Super-Hair” that is considerably thicker than the rest of my beard. These so-called “Super-Hairs” often become ingrown and get red and painful, so when I was younger, I began a Bush-styled pre-emptive strike forcefully tearing them from my skin in a surprisingly painless stealth-like attack. Over time this became habit forming and, much like our leader, I found that I enjoyed this pre-emptive style of attack and I took to it religiously.
Now, after years and years of endless pre-emptive attacks on the same rouge,mutant, “Super-hairs” I find myself wondering if the glee I get from finding them is really in my best interest at all…
Excuse me while I find my tweezers and get this sucker.
a statement by The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
“We believe this is a fundamental issue of equality, that the U.S. Constitution protects one’s legal right to marry as a fundamental right and that there is no reason to deny same-sex families the legal rights and obligations arising from marriage,” said Richard F. Barry, the academy’s outgoing president.
a nice thing to see today