Just Desserts

I grinned to myself this past weekend when I heard Sterling holding forth about the injustice of terrorist profiling based on ethnicity. His father, my brother Caleb, countered that it made sense, based on past positive correlations between terrorism and certain ethnicities. Back and forth they went, professor father and college-age son duking it out.

Thirty years ago it was college-age Caleb and his preacher father doing exactly the same thing. Tit for tat. Neither one giving up easily. Both making telling points repeatedly, and getting shot down repeatedly.

What goes around comes around, and all that. If my dad had heard it, he might have thought just desserts.