So, there I was, doing the long jog, approaching the halfway point (two miles), when what do I hear? Well, I'll tell you what I hear, loud and clear, being shouted from a VW bug - "Hey, fag!" Yes, in the year 2009, in Los Angeles (or Studio City), someone leaned out the window of a VW bug and yelled, "Hey, fag!" Now, perhaps seeing a sixty-one year old Jew in cutoff jeans with great legs stirred something deep inside him that was disturbing and this was his way of combatting it. Or maybe he's just another intolerant teenage asshole with a brain the size of a barbecued almond. Or maybe his parents taught him well. Whatever it is, I found it astonishing, and not in a good way. We think we've come a long way, baby, and yet people prove time and again we have a long way to go. I wish for this person a cataclysmic event in his life that will shake him to his very foundation, so that he perhaps learns what tolerance and good manners mean, and that creating positive energy brings good things and yelling, "Hey, fag" makes the world more of a cesspool than it already is. Yes, a nice, cataclysmic event for that young man is just the ticket.