\u201cLes chose sont contre nous\u201d ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings\u2019 parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn\u2019t think so. (*For more on resistentialism, check out: Paul Jennings, "Report on Resistentialism," The Jenguin Pennings, 1963.)