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Apr. 15th, 2008 05:51 ampolitics -- The latest ammo against Barack Obama is the charge that he is 'elitist.' This baffles me on so many different levels, but I'll keep it brief. In fact, I'll copy from merrydian, who saw Jon Stewart's take on it: If you are trying to be president, and you don't think you're better than other people on some level, what the hell are you doing? On the other hand, wasn't just a couple weeks ago that we were worried that Obama was an anti-white-church-going ignorant black racist? In what world do these two charges mesh, except that of desperate character assassination?
we've had a bumpkin pretending that he didn't think he was better than other people for the past 8 years running roughshod over the constitution and putting more and more money into the hands of the actual elite. i'm ready for an administration of people that actually sound intelligent, if elite, to change a few things.
this week i co-teach, or help teach--it's not really clear which--a keeper training class on pest control. it's not a ton of pressure, but i'm a little nervous. the person who has been teaching it is eager to pass it on, and i'm pretty sure i'll be teaching it very differently when i get the responsibility myself. i'd like to approach it from a natural history perspective--what in an animal's evolution makes it a pest? but i think the emphasis will be on policy enforcement for a reluctant staff. we'll see, it could cover a lot of ground.
spring struggles to exist in boston. according to accuweather it's 25 degrees f right now. i'd like to get back to riding my bike to work, but i'm just not as adventurous as i once was. plus it's hard to imagine waking up even earlier. or cutting into my precious lj time.
i'm reading a book called 'pit bull placebo' which is about how pitbulls are treated in the media, with a history of dog attack stories from the late 1800's to now. it's not very well written, and it's clearly preaching to the choir, but it has a lot of good factoids in it. i'll make a post just about this book when i'm done.
my obama icon is from a poster by shepard fairey, of 'andre the giant has a posse' fame.
http://obeygiant.com/
we've had a bumpkin pretending that he didn't think he was better than other people for the past 8 years running roughshod over the constitution and putting more and more money into the hands of the actual elite. i'm ready for an administration of people that actually sound intelligent, if elite, to change a few things.
this week i co-teach, or help teach--it's not really clear which--a keeper training class on pest control. it's not a ton of pressure, but i'm a little nervous. the person who has been teaching it is eager to pass it on, and i'm pretty sure i'll be teaching it very differently when i get the responsibility myself. i'd like to approach it from a natural history perspective--what in an animal's evolution makes it a pest? but i think the emphasis will be on policy enforcement for a reluctant staff. we'll see, it could cover a lot of ground.
spring struggles to exist in boston. according to accuweather it's 25 degrees f right now. i'd like to get back to riding my bike to work, but i'm just not as adventurous as i once was. plus it's hard to imagine waking up even earlier. or cutting into my precious lj time.
i'm reading a book called 'pit bull placebo' which is about how pitbulls are treated in the media, with a history of dog attack stories from the late 1800's to now. it's not very well written, and it's clearly preaching to the choir, but it has a lot of good factoids in it. i'll make a post just about this book when i'm done.
my obama icon is from a poster by shepard fairey, of 'andre the giant has a posse' fame.
http://obeygiant.com/
