In Our "Right Mind"
From Garrison Keillor's, Writer's Almanac:
Today (August 13) is International Left-hander's Day, a day in which left-hander advocacy groups remind you that left-handed scissors, school desks, and computer mice are nonexistent in many places and hard to come by in others. The holiday was first celebrated on this day in 1976, started by Left-hander's International, with the guiding mantra, "Lefties have rights."
The group also puts out bulletins with information like this: "Did You Know? Right-handed people operate in the left side of the brain. Left-handed people use their right side. Therefore, only left-handed people are in their right mind."
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Today (August 13) is International Left-hander's Day, a day in which left-hander advocacy groups remind you that left-handed scissors, school desks, and computer mice are nonexistent in many places and hard to come by in others. The holiday was first celebrated on this day in 1976, started by Left-hander's International, with the guiding mantra, "Lefties have rights."
The group also puts out bulletins with information like this: "Did You Know? Right-handed people operate in the left side of the brain. Left-handed people use their right side. Therefore, only left-handed people are in their right mind."
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[32 weeks down... 20 to go.]
1 Comments:
In Latin the word for left is "sinister." In French it is "gauche."
And now an advocacy group honors lefties on Friday the 13th...
By Bev. De Witt-Moylan, at 9:41 PM, August 13, 2010
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