David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've got a couple of kids; the younger asked that I stop with the lectures and asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later 'Yea, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday, me - Gaarr of Blog'
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Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to the Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. A prayer for his recovery & his music.
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Humor, History (Herstory)[see how I did that?]
In honor of ‘Women’s History Month’ … March … well I got this from my daughter’s blog (secret blog … even her mother (a woman) doesn’t know it … and I’ve not been told to tell) who is concerned about women’s rights (why she’s not concerned about women’s wrongs… I’ll never know). Well in an email, I was pointing out the difference of equality as in ‘Rights’ and equality in ‘condition’. It’s really hard to get equality of condiiton … and if it were right to have it, would you really want it?
For example, my son was in Austin, where he swam in the Austin Grand Prix, several hundred competing in each event. He beat his best time by 6.5 seconds in the 100 Free, ranked 250th of 379. Women who swam his time were ranked 24th of 380, and had the added privilege of admittance into the finals. Women’s overall inferior abilities were gauged within the field of women and not directly in competition with men. The clock was the only neutral arbiter of ‘condition fairness’. I think the status quo using men’s and women’s times separately provides ‘Equal Rights’ and that is great and sufficient, and the alternative, that of ‘equality of condition’ would be to only have final racing when they rose to the level of men’s times in the finals. That means there would be no women in the top 40 finalists …. they were all men. Check it out. This would seem to prove that ‘equality of condition’ is a false equality. Men and women are different, do we agree? And I say ‘viva la difference’.
Also please send me $5,000 if you disagree, or be noted as a cheap skate … which brings up a different subject where in dance, ice skating (see how I did that?), women are much closer to a ‘conditional parity’.
Note also, (that extra irritating word is dedicated to Sarah Palin) in breastfeeding, men wouldn’t even make the finals. (That reference is for dear past dad and the breast pocket calendar I gave him from Key West’s Fast Buck Freddies, and he knowing every 12 shapes in Latin … bravo, he was acknowledged in my heart and many hearts as- Men’s Breast Appreciation Finalist Champion) And the La Leche League will back that up.
For another $5,000 I will send you the transcript and movie of my father’s acceptance speech to the La Leche League as he was accepting the 4th Founders’ Award. There he detailed how he coached a young adopting mother to breastfeed the infant … for 2 years, during which her Endrometriosis symptoms disappeared (had prevented her conceiving before) and after she stopped breastfeeding, she conceived and had her natural child after which her Endrometriosis was in remission, and perhaps cured. For a straight white guy, that’s pretty bov. (that’s Indian hip talk for ‘sacred cowlike’)
