A Good Excuse!

I don’t know if a poster hanging in the office of your favorite College prog counts, but it certainly rang true the first time I saw it.

I had to hunt down where it came from, and of course it comes from that classic book, Catch-22 by Josephy heller (which I really have to read again – loved the movie).

Then I lived it and found out that maybe you’ve got a good reason to be called “paranoid.” When you’ve got people who might want to harm you (physically or professionally), you start always watching your six to make sure nothing is going on back there you don’t know about.

There were times I felt like Wild Bill Hickock in the movie Little Big Man when asked why he was so jumpy, and what he was afraid of. His answer. “Dying.”

Of course making a living by strapping on a gun makes you jumpy and you’ll react to things real or imagined, but hey. If it helps keep you alive, then it’s a good thing.

Anyway, this hung for years in Dr. Lynn Weldon’s office at Adams State College.

I wonder what they did with it after he retired?