Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
She reads a speech well because of her broadcast background. Sadly.
I was trying to explain to Paul last night that she reminds me of the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer on SNL back in the day.
I suspect she'll be pulling the Unfrozen Cavewoman Gov'ner BS all through the debates.
Elitist and uppity also mean "not like us." It's become a bad thing to be intellectually curious, open, and tolerant.
For goodness sake, ita, I hope the ER is able to help you.
Two things: a decision tree someone forwarded to me about Sarah Palin from americanpregnancy.org [link]
and the breaking AP wire story about 5 colleges/ 6 years: [link]
I am still at work.
eta: holy crap, "uppity"?? Jeebus that's ragemaking.
Elitist and uppity also mean "not like us." It's become a bad thing to be intellectually curious, open, and tolerant.
Yeah, but uppity has VERY specific connotations that are very well known. It's rarely applied to the melainin impaired. And in this case, the case has long been made that "elitist" is being used as code for "uppity" in the traditional nasty sense, rather elitist being used in the Kerry sense. To see someone brashly willing to just flat out say it, no sugar coated coding, makes me sick to my stomach.
I like your Batman, DJ!!!
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Huh. True. And now I miss Phil Hartman all over again.
To see someone brashly willing to just flat out say it, no sugar coated coding, makes me sick to my stomach.
And yet, it's good to have the code broken and laid out for everybody to see. Now that the media's done with it's not-so-covert bitch-bashing of Hilary, it looks like the racist spin will come fully to the fore.
Oh, I'm aware of the well-known connotation. But it *is* used, where I'm from, for anyone of any color "gettin' above their raisin'", which means, you know, going to college, skipping Sunday School, arguing with teachers, clergy, or legal or civil authorities with an assumption of intellectual parity.