Journal of a Sabbatical

random observations

June 19, 1997




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piping plovers

official count of adult plovers on refuge: 23

official count of chicks hatched so far: 13

plover warden off duty - I woke up with a sore throat this morning after not very much sleep owing to a huge thunderstorm that woke me last night. I called headquarters and said I wasn't coming it. It's cold and foggy up there anyway so there won't be many people on the beach.

Southern Baptists

What is with the Southern Baptist Convention? There are way bigger threats to the moral fabric of American life than Disney! Why don't they worry about racism, hunger, street violence, illiteracy, lack of health care...?

I want to rush to Disney World and spend lots of money just to spite their stupid boycott. Maybe I'll stop by the Disney store in the mall and buy some kitsch just to show my solidarity.

If all the lesbians in the world suddenly turned purple one day, the Southern Baptists would be astonished at our contribution to making their narrow minded little nuclear families work. And what is it with their focus on nuclear families? Do they really want to isolate family units away from outside supports and put that kind of stress on the nuclear family to be self sufficient?

So how exactly am I, Ellen DeGeneres, or Mickey Mouse a threat to their little families?

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