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...ready to take my chances. Ready to dust off that oath of last October, the one about following orders, and take The Shot and be a soldier. But until that order comes, incontrovertible, with The Shot at one end and a dishonorable discharge at the other, I will keep trying to wriggle my way out of this, as honorably as I can. I'm still working the phone, talking to the Army's people who can sometimes enforce the Army's regulations at their discretion. It's going to be a bummer either...
Granted, Mendelson's overwhelming attention to dust mites, food pathogens and spores can be so constant and so alarming that a better title for her book might have been Life: The Silent Killer. Not only are the things necessary for survival--food, clothing, water--impending Petri dishes of doom, the products used to clean these things may very well be contaminated. Mendelson describes sponges the way Alan Keyes talks about the "radical homosexual agenda"--breeders of bacteria threatening our very way of life. Since there's no way I'm together enough to constantly launder a pile of rags...
...great Cheryl Mendelson debate, I'll gladly take Ms. Mendelson's side; dust mites of the world, beware. Mendelson's 884-page reference book Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, published by Scribner last November, is in its eighth printing. There are 180,000 copies of it loose in the world, and readers, mostly women, are torn. Many find it a handy, even revolutionary guide to household tasks our mothers never taught us, while others see it as antifeminist, barefoot-in-the-kitchen propaganda, gleefully pointing out that Mendelson recommends cleaning the kitchen floor...
...until the end, Bill Bradley insisted he would surprise people on Tuesday. But as the dust settled, everybody was surprised by the size of Al Gore's blowout victory over the former U.S. senator from New Jersey. Projections revealed a clean sweep for Gore among the 13 Super Tuesday states, including delegate-rich California, New York and Ohio, and a surprisingly large margin in Missouri, where Bradley was born and raised...
...sport speaks as a metaphor for the American idyll. Professor of History William E. Gienapp teaches a course on the subject and surely has more to say about it than me, but it seems to me the American story in miniature. Mixing the dust of the base-paths with the grass of the outfield might just conjure up some sort of urban farm, where instead of rotten apples hit with a stick we have formalized it to a cork-and-rubber ball and perfectly-honed bats...