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October 29, 2006
Scandinavian Words of Wisdom from Mom
On the phone today with mom who just read an article about bug chasers and asked me if it was true, and I said, "Yep," to which she replied:
"I don't think people have enough to do."
Well there ya go. If you are a Scandinavian Midwesterner, WORK is the solution to all of the world's problems. So I'm going to write a grant for NIH for a public health campaign poster is going to depict a socialist realism interpretation of muscular gay men in the factory hard at work with headwraps, holding hammers and riveters, with the slogan "WORK = HEALTH" because that's how my Mom says it should be.
I kid, but perhaps there is some wisdom there...
Posted by jimbo at October 29, 2006 6:26 PM
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Maybe that's the solution to everything. After all, lotsa people only become terrorists and criminals because they don't have enough to do; a job tends to require your attention.
Given your aversion to workaholics, I never thought I'd hear that coming from you.
Posted by: copperred at October 29, 2006 7:35 PM
You shouldn't be kidding about that. It might actually work! In a manner of speaking.
Posted by: Josh at October 29, 2006 8:15 PM
Some less compassionate people would call this natural selection...
Posted by: Adil at October 30, 2006 2:47 AM
My Scotch Irish grandmothers taught me something similar: hard work, combined with good personal hygiene, is the solution to all of the world's problems.
Posted by: Herb at October 30, 2006 1:11 PM