WHEN a former community organizer named Barack Obama began his bid for the presidency, it cast a spotlight on an uncelebrated profession.

After all, in their loving, neither Yuichi nor Yoko seeks any worldly gain: Yuichi is a recovering mental patient and Yasuko is a victim of radiation suffering from her disabling keroid, now darkly hidden in her buttocks.

an effluviating power

17 Mar 2006, Niggercrusher, “Re: Ah, the wonder of Africoonian self-government 2”, in soc.culture.african.american, Usenet: