And I mention that my readers are jumping all over me this week because I have been writing about politics, and not especially dispassionately. People are quitting my subscription list in droves, calling me names, and sometimes just taunting me. I was sort of a mess to begin with, but now I'm really sort of a mess. And the poor girl makes one lousy mistake. It was a mistake, because it opens her up to a cold scoop of parental schploot.
Cynicism can be devastating, especially it when arises from experience.
She hates me now. And I think I just gave her instructions to go have experiences about which to be cynical. Just what every man wants to tell a young woman who is not his daughter. I am such a genius. So I let her out at campus and head back through the downtown traffic.