The Crusoe fallacy A former state senator from Rhode Island asks whether we are all islands unto ourselves
Carlin, David R. Jr.
EVICTED! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune we can cope with. But the entropy-not to mention the lack of heat and the broken elevator-engulfing us here at 15 Dutch Street is very much...
...It plans to turn the building into more remunerative residential lofts and apartments...
...November 8,1996), we alerted our readers to the illiberal fiends who stopped just short of using tactical nuclear weapons to get into these hallowed offices...
...Please...
...We presumed the lease would be renewed, as it had been previously...
...So would Seattle...
...That incident, it now appears, was what your mother used to call "a hint...
...In our last report ("Stop Thief...
...But time is short, our rent budget is meager, and there is another letter from the new landlord lying unopened on our desk...
...On December 23 we learned that the landlord had leased the entire premises to a development corporation for the next ninety-nine years...
...Obviously the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith will stop at nothing to silence the voices of reason and enlightenment (joke...
...We have no legal recourse...
...Keep you posted...
...In any event, our landlord (The Collegiate Church Corporation) did not communicate to us the slightest suggestion that it would not be...
...Not surprisingly, any new offices will cost significantly more than the bargain-basement rent we've been paying at Dutch Street for the last ten years...
...But since moving the office elsewhere would entail uprooting the staff (kids and all), we will probably have to find shelter in Manhattan, or close by...
...In good Commonweal fashion, we brilliantly laid out for our new landlord the untenable nature of his moral position...
...Impressed with our analysis, he told us to vacate the office "really immediately...
...In short, we're being evicted...
...The development corporation has refused to renew our lease, returned our rent check, and told us to vacate these premises "immediately...
...But the entropy-not to mention the lack of heat and the broken elevator-engulfing us here at 15 Dutch Street is very much something else again...
...San Francisco would be nice...
...Very much...
...In plain English, Commonweal's lease on 15 Dutch Street expired December 31...
...Once in, they tarried not, neither did they spin, but scurried off with all our worldly possessions...
...We would be grateful for any information about or suggestions for procuring reasonably priced (read: cheap) space in Manhattan (or possibly elsewhere...
...We continue to pray, of course, that this new friend might become sensible to the objective moral nature of reality, but we are also shopping for a new home...
...Now, instead of worrying about people breaking into Commonweal's offices, Commonweal is being thrown out of them...
...That's right: the editors of your very favorite magazine are being tossed out on the street...
Vol. 124 • February 1997 • No. 3
