Argh. Argh. Argh. Holy... argh. Remind me not to read public message boards anywhere other than, like, here. Argh.
But all is not lost. [The state of education in the US] can actually be a good thing if foreigners decide to send their little brats to some other countries for their higher educational needs instead of the United States. Maybe then we won't have to put up with all the political correctness crap of having to be accepting of other's cultures and focus on bettering the culture we have in this country already.
Kids today are too lazy to learn.
And now I will sit back while all the Blue Staters reply and tell me that I am an evil ,uninformed bigot... I mean no disrespect, I'm simply trying to see the common sense side of the equation...
I thought modern parenting is to be 'friends' with your children and give the brats everything they want, instead of instilling discipline in them. No spanking, that's child abuse.
Flames... flaming on the side of my face...
Salon has a piece today that's apparently one hipster's ongoing column about life in the French Quarter after Katrina (requires daily pass): [link]
A few choice excerpts:
"This is dawn, New Orleans, post-Katrina. And I love it.
"Still in swim trunks I haven't shed since Katrina started whispering through my windows 13 days ago now, I walk outside, the new sun tickling the roof of the slave quarters across the street, and step from the cobalt air into the turquoise swimming pool, hardly less wet, and lie at the bottom....
"When I kick up to the surface, I whack my head on a 16-ounce can of Busch floating there, crack it open, take a long pull, stare across the surface at the other cans floating. Full bottles of Pinot Grigio are scattered along the bottom. It's the only way to keep them cool. All leftovers from my birthday the night before.
"You must understand it never occurred to me to leave....This is home. Where else would I go? My family's cottage on Cape Cod would get boring fast. My mom's house in D.C. would get claustrophobic. What on earth would I do in those places but know what it means to miss New Orleans?"
Self-entitled hipster git. What? He'd be forced to endure the hell of the family's summer home? OH NOES!!!
I wrote a letter to Salon, saying as much.
heh, I am in the middle of reading that article right now!
Well, on the up side, making everybody in highschool leave the country would vastly decrease the number of teen-driving deaths in the US.
...um, yeah. That kind of ex-cloaca exposition of how "obviously" we can fix major social problems instantly with no expense or expertise, if only we would
listen to him,
is so very much like -- George? Is that you??
heh, I am in the middle of reading that article right now!
Write a letter, too! Call him the self-entitled hipster git that he is!
Got an e-mail from my librarian friend in Mississippi this morning with information on donating to help MS libraries:
Friends of Mississippi Libraries, working with the Library Commission and MLA, has established a fund for donations to rebuild those MS libraries severely damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Tax-deductible donations can be made by sending your contributions to:
Rebuild Mississippi Libraries Fund
c/o AmSouth Bank
210 E. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39201
Steph, Emily, I don't believe that either of the excerpts you two posted are anything except fiction. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Steph, Emily, I don't believe that either of the excerpts you two posted are anything except fiction. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
As for the one I posted, it's real. Apparently Nightline interviewed one (or more?) of the residents of the party house.
Maybe then we won't have to put up with all the political correctness crap of having to be accepting of other's cultures and focus on bettering the culture we have in this country already.
God. Are we still talking about "political correctness crap"? Let me put it this way, you dumb shit. I know that when your ma, Mary Sue, and your pa/uncle/cousin, Bubba Bub, sent you and your eighteen brothers/nephews/cousins off to be schooled by Miss Virgin McFrigid in the one-room schoolhouse, with instructions to spank each other every day to keep some discipline in you, they didn't explain how there'd be people who weren't related to you out there in the world. But there are, and some of them might shoot you if you talk to them like I'm talking to you right now. Or, and I know this smarts, they might not give you the job to which Nature and Nature's God entitle you. So this is why we teach all the little children to try having some understanding and compassion in their souls for people who are not just like them or, failing that, to watch their fucking mouths as a safety issue and as an aid to future employability.
No offense meant to actual Mary Sues, Bubba Bubs, Virgin McFrigids, or children of large families. No real people were depicted in this harangue, and the opinions presented here not only do not reflect the views of the board, they don't even reflect mine. Hyperbole used by an accredited sarcastic person. Do not try at home. The author knows lots of people from the backwoods of lots of places, and none of the people she knows are ignorant bigots.
