"My Darling Mao" [antikvár]

ForewordAs a man who has urged Congress several times to abolish Mother's Day, I may not be the best choice to write a foreword to this collection.I have always felt most mothers are precisely that. My own has a police record the size of an airport runway, and I am currently trying to accumulate enough evidence for the grand jury to send her up for life. I have twice turned her in to the Israeli police as Martin Bormann but failed to secure a conviction in each instance. I know many other mothers who are engaged in nefarious activities and who gloss over their evil, trying to fob it off as "mother-love," "affection," and "I'm only doing it for your sake." This is all nonsense. They are doing whatever it is they're doing for their own sakes: to amass possessions, to secure power for criminal ends, or to make up for the few mfeagre items they could not filch during their own childhood and so have turned bitter about, determined to obtain them using their child's childhood.A good example is the mother who forces her children to do some odious thing because "as a child I never could afford to go to college . . . or take music lessons or become an actress . etc." My mother forced me to marry wearing a bridal gown because she never did.The only mother who had any real class' t!',! i-