The Halfway House

[Koikaze]

Oh, dear.

Please accept my abject apology. I try to write with crystal clarity to avoid the need for those l'il doodads folks seem so partial to. In this case, obviously, I messed up.

Ol' Harry was, once upon a time, President of these United States. I've heard his handkerchiefs were embossed "HST". Be that as it may, he is reputed to have said, during a discussion of the pressure of his office ...

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"

Now ... on a serious note ... did you get your training from the Marquis De Sade? I thought we had a prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in this country.

Now, I'll grant you there ain't nothing unusual about the Boston Red Sox being down in the nether regions of professional sports, but it certainly is cruel to continually call attention to the fact. I mean, hey, that's like rubbing someone's nose in their own ...

Whoa!!! Waitaminit, lemme rephrase that.

I'll put it this way ... it's just plain unkind to state (and restate and restate) the obvious. Apply a little of the milk of human kindness, stroke his fevered brow ...

AND, THEN, LAUGH

Fred