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And I thought about being launched off the horse and all the other stuff that happened that same year--the time I fell out of a tree in my neighbor's yard, the time I fell 20 feet from a hay loft and landed unhurt on a barn floor covered with straw; the time I wrecked a minibike or fell into a ravine after trying to swing one-handed on a tree vine, like I'd just seen Johnny Weismuller do in a Tarzan movie.
Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.
We are, after all, obsessed with authenticity this year--the real person.
Is it the fondness for executions--half of the nation's last year--the Civil War, the border patrol, the oxymoronic phrase "compassionate conservatism," the sweaty midnight memories of the Bush-Quayle administration, that paunch on John Wayne in The Alamo ? Is it just metropolitan prejudice, the Southern thing but with cattle?
The WP lead notes that U.S. wages and benefits rose 3.5 percent in the last year--the biggest one-year gain since 1993.