LITTLE ALICE

Little Alice was in her 5th grade class when the teacher asked the
children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers
came up- fireman, policeman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, Alice was being
uncharacteristically quiet, so the teacher asked her about her father.
My father--s an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his
clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear.
Sometimes, if the offer--s really good, he--ll go home with some guy and
make love with him for money. The teacher, obviously shaken by this
statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises
and took little Alice aside to ask her, Is that really true about your
father? No, said Alice, he works for the Bush administration, but I
was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids.