On Christmas Day last year, Marcy Wallace gave her brother Jeff Henderson a copy of The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock. On the inside she penned the following.

to
Jeff
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Marcy
Christmas 2005

Marcy hoped the book would convince Jeff that the concept of sociobiology does not allow him to be a dick to his waitstaff. Jeff owns a restaurant outside of Alameda, California and he and Marcy got in an argument over whether or not he gave his waitstaff enough overtime pay on Thanksgiving Day. His reply, which angered Marcy to no end--when did her brother become such a meathead, she wondered--was, "Hey, man. Survival of the fittest."

Jeff told Marcy he would read the book and he actually did give it a shot. He made it 61 pages into The Triumph of Sociobiology before concluding that his sister didn't know what she was talking about and that the book was about loving your pets too much, something called the whirligig beetle, and bird sperm--not overtime pay on Thanksgiving Day. He promptly traded The Triumph of Sociobiology in for some old car mags at a used bookstore which then sold it to me via Amazon.com.

The thing is though, I'm already on Marcy's side.



Tom, March 6, 2006, 11:41 PM           (link here)