Straitjackets

                       

                                          and Other Liberations

 

                                                                                                               

                                                                                                               by C. Morgan

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Thank you for stopping in. Make yourself comfortable and look around. Be sure to read an excerpt of my new book, Straitjackets and Other Liberations. And don't take life too seriously. It's not permanent...

 

If you've ever seen a mentally retarded adult following along behind his mother in a grocery store, you know in your heart the silent thankfulness we all feel that we do not walk in those shoes.

After all, how fulfilling could life possibly be without the ability to think complex thoughts or to make important life decisions?

Discover the surprising answer through an irreverent woman with more quirky problems and less decision-making ability than the mentally retarded people she is assigned to help.

You'll never feel the same again about those people in the grocery store.

 



A naive young woman goes undercover to find a rapist at an institution for the mentally retarded. Instead, she discovers a fine line between those inside and those outside the gates.

 

 

Quote of the Week

 

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” 

—Henry Louis Mencken—

 

 

 Quotes from Weeks Past

 

“Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

—Sir Winston Churchill—

 

Audiotape of President Lyndon Baines Johnson ordering pants from clothier Joe Haggar, August 9, 1964:

“Now the pockets, when you sit down, everything falls out—your money, your knife, everything—so I need at least another inch in the pockets. And another thing. The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight, so when you make ‘em up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh, because they cut me. It's just like ridin’ a wire fence.”

 

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

—Josh Billings— 

 

“I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.”

—Bob Hope— 

 

"The truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it." 

—Kurt Vonnegut—  

 

"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to  pee on the electric fence for themselves."

—Will Rogers— 

 

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."

—From Winnie the Pooh—