Report from the Twilight Zone

In cosmological theory, the zone at the brink of a black hole is called the event horizon. Abandon hope all ye who cross that line into the vortex known as Oklahoma, where our correspondent, Dr. Steve, posts occasional reports.

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Oklahoma Politics. A sense of humor is essential, but this is a subject on which a sense of humor is very close to impossible. Okay to carry guns on college campuses. Creationism okay. Also okay to use ‘deadly force’ to protect an unborn child. Public money to the church. Well, not money, but monuments to the 10 commandments wherever.

Another crisis. The laundry had been breaking buttons on my shirts, so I took them back to be sewed on, and the next shirts I sent were heavily starched. I always order no starch. I can tolerate a shrinking retirement fund and shrinking portfolio values and neck arthritis and eyeball weirdness and memory lapses, but not a starched collar. This was clearly intentional. There is passive aggressive class warfare afoot in the shirt laundry business. And everywhere else.

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