On the Topic of Restraint

A judge has given the go-ahead for a lawsuit against David Childs for copyright violation—he’s being sued for possibly having ripped off a 1999 Yale student architectural project. (See the rendering here for a hint of the similarities.)

I finally finished that piece (kind of) about the abuse of immigrants, and I have to say, no one has been exhibiting much restraint when it comes to their infused nature of hatred for people who have less than them, not to mention people who have more than them.

Restraint: my mechanic apparently has none when it comes to charging me for car repairs.

The very word calls to mind shackles, keeping things in, stopping yourself from doing whatever the hell you want. How do people do this? Why do they fail when they fail?

As for me, your humble McBickle is sitting on her hands so as not to write unflinchingly on certain topics. What she really needs is a vacation, somewhere like the unglamorous Jersey Shore maybe…

Then again, it can’t be all vacation-need all the time, can it? Then we’d need vacations from our vacations.

Restrain ourselves. It sounds so Puritanical. And so many of us were born outside that faith.