I am ready to shake one of my students long distance. She is fucking up really badly. She had to make these changes in the last chapter of her diss or she will not get her degree. She is resistant to the changes (probably because she isn't the best conceptual thinker I have ever met), but she thinks her difficulties writing the diss are my fault.
nevermind her peers who also have me as chair have never had the problems she has had.
If she does what she needs to do and I don't choke her out by the 15th, she will have her degree and I can wash my hands of her.
Shoot these days, what about a fat president? An ugly president? A differently abled president?
Good question. We've had all of those already, but nowadays, I'm not sure.
Chris Christie wants to be President. I think he would be a tough sell. The fat jokes are just so awful already.
One of the weirdest aspects of life is that I feel like pop culture is more capable of reflecting my life and world while political culture is increasingly less likely to.
I don't fucking know what to do.
Chris Christie wants to be President. I think he would be a tough sell. The fat jokes are just so awful already.
I think his policies are a tougher sell for me personally. Clinton was not exactly a svelte man.
A week or so ago an NPR show did a thing on Paul Ryan being gen x and if that will help him. Anyone who votes entirely based on generational ID should be disenfranchised.
The only two recent politicians with disabilities that I can think of are Bob Dole and Max Cleland, and with both of them, it was caused by a war injury.
A week or so ago an NPR show did a thing on Paul Ryan being gen x and if that will help him. Anyone who votes entirely based on generational ID should be disenfranchised.
I have to say, simply the fact he went to my college the same time as me is enough to make me not vote for him.
Yup. Kneejerk reaction. I own it.
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That's not because of his age; it's because I remember what an astonishingly high percentage of students were total douchebags. And his fraternity was one of the rape-ier ones.
Yup. Tarring him with a broad brush. I own it.
Like, someone with a Spanish name who could speak Spanish fluently would totally freak out a huge segment of the population.
You are surely right, but after living in Florida for 32 years it seems so odd. Of course all of it is just wrong. The sexual orientation, attractiveness, religion, ethnicity, etc. of people is so irrelevant to my decision on whether to vote for them.
JZ for President! If I wasn't living in a swing state I would write her in.
The only two recent politicians with disabilities that I can think of are Bob Dole and Max Cleland, and with both of them, it was caused by a war injury.
Well, there's certainly a huge bunch of soldiers these days with war injuries--give them 20 or more years (I mean, Bob Dole wasn't Bob Dole RIGHT after the war), and they might be on the national stage
