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urbpan"...just when you start getting used to being able to walk down the street without tensing every muscle in your body, you get reports of an incoming blizzard. You brace for it, but instead of snow, it rains for 12 hours and then drops to the 20s, encasing the entire city in ice and gutting your hopes for an early spring.
...It's a killer, but Boston beats out warmer parts of the country in other ways. I'd rather be stuck in eternal winter, for example, than to have to stand for a minute in the company of Creationists and people who think the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is funny."
-Joe Keohane, editor of The Weekly Dig. (our alternative weekly paper, from this week's issue)
Can someone out there please refute this? Not because I don't believe it, but because I do. Must I choose between a comfortable social climate and a comfortable weather climate?
...It's a killer, but Boston beats out warmer parts of the country in other ways. I'd rather be stuck in eternal winter, for example, than to have to stand for a minute in the company of Creationists and people who think the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is funny."
-Joe Keohane, editor of The Weekly Dig. (our alternative weekly paper, from this week's issue)
Can someone out there please refute this? Not because I don't believe it, but because I do. Must I choose between a comfortable social climate and a comfortable weather climate?
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Date: 2005-02-19 04:54 pm (UTC)*eyeroll*
some of the most liberal people i've ever met are from atlanta, btw.
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Date: 2005-02-20 03:47 pm (UTC)I hesitate to defend what is basically (my own) bigotry, but no, I've never met a creationist in New England. Now, I'll admit that New England is a hostile environment to them, and they would not be eager to out themselves, but I've never met them. Is their suppression a good thing? I don't know--I can't stand up for any suppression.
But what I'm worried about is places where they are the majority, or at least vocal enough to be trying to change public education to insert pseudoscience into my beloved Life Sciences.
Do people in Atlanta and Austin feel like they live on desert islands surrounded by hostile seas? How far from Austin do you have to go before you get someplace where you can safely have a rainbow flag or a Darwin fish on your car, without someone slashing your tires?