by Richard Oxman

Before you object to the title here, insisting that I use *physically challenged*, please read the AP story by Alison Schlesinger which appeared online the other day.

Once you take in what it means for a young T-ball coach to hire a healthy hit kid (eight-years-old) to *take out* a not-so-healthy youngster –oh, excuse that expression too!– you can let me know…what’s appropriate…action…perhaps.

Like leaving this planet? Or at least this state of things, these *United States*? Excuse the expression, once again, please.

I really would like to know what readers find to complain about in the article, by the way, above and beyond the obvious…central, spotlighted *indiscretion*. Criminal act.

The cop’s comment is instructive for starters, in my humble opinion.

I think that if readers peruse the piece carefully, they’ll pick up on a *Downs Syndrome* of sorts that’s running rampant…in this country especially.

And maybe, just maybe, some will want to join me and Sylvie overseas to get away from it all. Embracing other challenges, regardless of the physical and mental handicaps involved in becoming expats.

I can’t take it anymore; it’s taking me down. [1] For it’s no more “rogue” than Rove or Bohemian Grove. [2]

Institutionalized and/or culturally-approved *downers*, all.

Club Footnote:

[1] And it’ll only get worse for me if readers point out that I should have used “Down” instead of “Downs” above.

[2] And that’s just what rhymes.

Flash note: Just returned from a local party where the group gathered –upon hearing this story– somehow couldn’t show much emotion vis-a-vis this *victory* for the great emptiness we face…called Hole in the Heart.