Since 1977, there has been a subset in American female literature, the tales of well educated women so comfortable with their education and empowerment that they spend their lives looking to be mangled by male jerks. The first novel within that subset was LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR    by Judith Rossner which was inspired by the 1973 murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. THERESA DUNN is a college educated    woman who is a gifted teacher of deaf children. But she is so empowered that she needs to become reckless and go mess around with jerks… ”  loses her virginity, to her much older, married college professor Martin. He ends their affair just before her graduation, leaving Theresa feeling used and lonely. Theresa takes a job teaching deaf children, and proves to be a gifted and caring teacher. ….She frequents a bar at night, where she meets Tony, a charming but vain Italian-American. She ends up taking Tony to her apartment, taking cocaine with him and sleeping with him…. Thro

This has been an extraordinarily eventful week, particularly in Eric Hoffer terms; in that one should always be aware of leading indicators. This Blogger’s Mexican-American, Hispanic, Latino, Latinx friends tell me that the most eventful event this past week was two out of three of the leading Democratic candidates for President, Senator Amy Klubuchar of Minnesota, and Billionaire Tom Steyer (think ARTIE ZIFF from THE SIMPSONS), could not, in their quest to lead the world, name the President of America’s largest trading partner, a nation which guards America’s Southern border, a nation of 110 million people just across the Rio Grande. “Democratic presidential hopefuls Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer were stumped when asked during a televised interview in Nevada to name the Mexican president.  Klobuchar, Steyer and fellow 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg were asked during one-on-one interviews with the Spanish-language station Telemundo on Thursday night if they knew the name of the pres