Find Your Fig Leaf

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Well, as you can see, a little alcohol goes a long way with me: I thrive on booze once a week. Why? What is the mechanism involved? I think it must be related to 'inhibition.' Booze releases me from childhood (Jewish?) inhibitions. That must be it. Booze must also, as a result, allow latent associations to flower into consciousness.

As I was writing about 'fig leafs' previously it occurred to me that maybe everybody has a sort of 'fig leaf' and that even I might possibly have one. It immediately hit me that maybe Kootch is my personal 'fig leaf.' She might be, in some sense. I know that I have used her as my 'Kaiser Permanente fig leaf'.

I should not need a fig leaf at Kaiser Permanente, but my feeling is that I do need such a fig leaf. So whenever I go downtown for a colonoscopy I take Kootch with me. I always insist that Kootch be present at the examination. I always record the proceedings on my voice recorder. Why?

Because I am certain that Jewish money and Jewish bias are working against me at Kaiser Permanente. I know it for a fact. The (possible) Jew, Deborah Presken, is only one example. There are several others, including 'Dr. Mangele.' My reasoning is that in view of my obviously Japanese wife the folks who will attend to me will begin to doubt the stories they may have heard about my bigotry, and in light of that, do their duty. What is my message here? See above.