This post is in honor of Tony Jones, for his birthday.
While preparing a delicious meal of spaghetti and meatballs for my wife and son, a national news story caught my attention.
A female Texan was passing through airport security and was setting off the airport metal detectors. When the offending metal was discovered to be in her chest area, she suggested to airport security that her nipple rings may be to blame. They told her that the aforementioned jewelry would have to be removed prior to entering the gateway. She was able to get one out without a problem, but the second was a bit trickier and required pliers. The television displayed a mannequin wearing a tastefully non-revealing brassiere at this stage in the report, complete with nipple ring, and showed someone removing said ring with pliers, just in case people were unclear about how it all went down in real life.
Of course, at the conclusion of the report, immediately I considered the obvious connection to Emergent.
There are more than a few out there who claim to “dabble” in emerging thought, but those who have dabbled with an open mind realize that one can dabble with emergent like one can get a little moistened by a plunge off the high dive. Or, by contrast and with respect to this news story, one can escape the implications of emergent like one can remove a nipple ring at the airport metal detector. It would take pliers and the severe need to reach a particular destination.
