I read the news today, o boy.....

I'm never entertained by murder, mayhem, beheading,
cries from huge crowds, squeals from teen-age girls
over rock stars, cruelty to animals or other strange
happenings of the now.

The greatest entertainment is listening
to old men tell their tales. Or, a fine dream in which
an old girl friend or wife shows up, prettier than
she was and hungry for you.

The act of decapitation is a strange one that we
have no formal experience with in the modern West. It's a
form of humiliation, a form of possession and occurs
when there is furious repression as happens in old,
primitive cultures. Or cultures on the warpath.

I can remember, as a kid, my friends and I were
fascinated by the report that the beautiful actress
Jayne Mansfield was decapitated in a car accident.
The report turned out to be false but we would talk
and talk about that and try to picture what it must
have looked like. Such is the imaginations of boys.

The ferocity of the world is too real.

And then there is employment...it's improving but, as
we note on the joblog more people, including retired folk and
stay-at-home mom's are entering the work force.

We've had inquiries from attorneys who want to change
professions. And yesterday posted a good job for a
legal editor in the northeast. Transitions from one profession
to another are normal but require some thinking through.