Client lossstrictly editorial

September 5, 2006

The bad news was the letter telling me that the next issue of the journal, which had made up about 25 percent of my annual income, would be my last. The good news included impeccable reasoning for the change that had nothing to do with my editing or efforts. It also included, even particularly, the way the letter was coached.

The really good news, of course, was that the next issue will be my last.

I no longer need to wonder how I might wiggle out of the job with my honor intact. Reinforcement of the goodness of all this...

The current study argues that the nature and intensity of a person’s relationship with God creates a transposable cognitive schema that shapes people’s views toward public policies such as executing convicted murderers.

Transposable cognitive schema? Mercy.

And this is a well written sentence by one of the superior, if utterly difficult, authors.