A knitted silk shell -- no matter how expensive the material -- is shaped like a t-shirt. Light grey in that fabric is almost as sheer as a white tee and sheerer than a pastel t-shirt. That fabric drapes even lighter and reveals more of the body than your usual cotton t-shirt. In other words, it is just an upper-class, more expensive form of t-shirt. I know because I have sewn t-shirts of cotton and I have sewn shells of silk noil. The finish around then neckline of a tee is just a different type of stitch. The cotton knit can be had for $7 a yard. The particular type of silk I mention is more costly, about $30 per yard.

I am not comparing it to t-shirts with slogans. You can buy plain cotton t-shirts without slogans. You can buy them at Wal-Mart, Land's End, and Saks. The only thing that lies between a plain old t-shirt from Land's End and that knitted noil silk shell is money.

To like the silk and despise the cotton as work clothing is classcism. People are discriminated in the workplace everyday for wearing the clothing they can best afford. I know. I used to buy my clothes at K-Mart and it showed.

When I taught at a community college, I assigned to my remedial English students the writing of a short essay on classcism. Most of them did not know what it was, but almost every single one of them were victims of it. I wanted them to know. I wanted them to at least understand when they were knocking on the door of success why, sometimes, despite all their efforts, there would no answer.

Because this also constitutes a dual relationship. However, in a small town, with little other recourse, it may be a way around some of her problems. It's bending things a bit.

It sort of depends upon how much she/he trusts the person who would receive this information. Since she/he is new to the job, she/he may not have established this trust.

However, problems would still arise if she had to work on some of the same projects with this guy.

I'll tell you what I would do. If I felt this person was a danger to vulnerable clients such as children, the elderly, the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, women or men who had been victims of rape or incest, I would hire an investigator to uncover any possible dirt on this guy. I would even use information I had as a starting point. I would mail it in. However, I would probably quit the job because I would go insane trying to "protect" people from him.

Sometimes there are no easy answers. Sometimes the right thing and the legal or safe thing are two different things.

It's not what they are voting for that matters. It's what they think they are voting against: black folks (they use another word), Mexican aliens, homos, wimmin libbers, elitists (they mean educated), atheists (they mean non-Christians), and traitors (they mean people against the war).

I really do know people like this. Some of them are relatives. If I point out that they are voting against their own economic interests, they will say thing like "I ain't no socialist." I think some of them do realize that they truly are voting against their own interests in the dimmest recesses of their minds, but to actually acknowledge this would be to admit their own failures. They still think that America is the greatest country in the world because everyone who works hard can do just fine. Then they take off their gimme caps, wipe their brows, spit and get in their pickup trucks and drive away -- to nowhere.

I once had a woman tell me that she wasn't sure she wanted her children to go to college because she "didn't want no in-tool-heck-chuls" her family. She don't have any, neither.

That covers both her title and her name. Since former president Bill Clinton has never been a Senator, no confusion need result. If you are talking about the candidates by last name, Clinton, Edwards, Obama, etc. does nicely. No one who reads English will be puzzled.