The Nature of Competition As Spiritual Hemorrhoid
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So the Obama administration is presently hemorrhaging classified information courtesy of WikiLeaks, the Bush administration is doing so posthumously, the earth’s crust is hemorrhaging oil, and Tom Vilsack is simply battling an embarrassing case of hemorrhoids after/during the stress of the Shirley Sherrod debacle. Those are the big stories at the moment, but in true form for a real live Twenty-First Century Narcissist, I’m not really thinking about all that right now.
Something terrible happened on Sunday at Dave & Buster’s… I lost.
In and of itself, losing is not a rarity in my life though I am, in general, more accustomed to winning. But on Sunday evening, I lost in a big way. I lost at everything. Even now, my ego hasn’t restored itself, nor will the chasm be sated or filled by gobbling up Scrabble wins and cheap, trivial victories. … Read more
