People Must Be Allowed to Make Choices that They Live or Die With
US Supreme Court and the Conservatives are about to Father so Many Avoidable Tragedies
A long, long time ago when I was first out of college and trying to make some money as a freelance writer, I got wind of a potential feature story via a Sears furniture salesman named Mark.
Mark was an older dude who seemed to be longing to get out of the retail industry and take a shot at the film industry. I had ambitions of being a writer when I wasn’t working at the Laguna Hills Sear Customer Service counter — the same store Mark worked in. Mark knew I had just graduated with a Drama degree. So, I think he thought to himself, “Hey, I’ve got this great story, maybe I can get this kid to write a movie script and I can ride his coattails into a Hollywood producer career.”
We were living in Southern California, where seemingly everyone fantasizes about breaking into motion pictures at some point in their lives, so it wasn’t uncommon to run into people like this. I was callow but I saw Mark’s naive ambitions and middle-aged desperation coming from a mile away. I wasn’t so wide-eyed to think that I could suddenly find myself in a production company’s office with a script to this great story, but still I was interested…
