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 | | From: | Shreyas Zare | | Subject: | to be immediate or relaxed will purchase insufficient sentences to truly press | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 20:33:50 GMT |
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 | that point].
But, this is way too many words for our CNN --Get To The Point News--
Information Age, isn't it? So, let's distil Daycare and
Government-Funded Daycare into short and concise Impossible Things to
Believe Before Breakfast form:
1. A mother who works a full-time job and delegates to strangers the
raising of her children eight hours a day, five days a week does just as
good a job as a mother who hand-rears her children full time.
2. It makes great sense for the government to pay 10 to 15,000 dollars a
year to fund a daycare space for a child so its mother -- who pays
perhaps 2,000 dollars in taxes -- can be a contributing member of
society.
All you husbands and daycare daddies are just nodding like crazy.
--Makes sense to me, Dave.-- --Gotta have it. Government-Funded Daycare.
No way around that. Gotta have it.-- --A woman's right to choose! A
woman's right to choose!--
For the benefit of the rest of my readership, I decided to compose a
partial list of Impossible Things To Believe Before Breakfast (jotted
down over the course of an hour while working on a Cerebus page -- I
figured a dozen or so would get my point across).
I'll just continue the numbering from our Daycare entries.
3. A woman's doctor has more of a valid claim to participate in the
decision to abort a fetus than does the father of that fetus.
4. So long as a woman makes a decision after consulting with her doctor,
she is incapable of making an unethical choice.
[I was going to allow the Impossible Things to stand alone and --hatch
out-- however they might in each individual reader's mind once they had
been planted -- to mix a metaphor. However, in the aftermath of Carol
West's resignation, that seems unnecessarily naive, given the wilfulness
with which the hard questions are ignored in our society. So, here,
interposed, is my more elabor
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