An imaginary place in a reactionary time

I seem to recall reading somewhere that SCO execs were unloading their stock recently. Maybe they wnated to make a quick killing, while everyone thought there might be something worthwhile in the company, and pumped up the stock?

Hey Jer

You could have written this one.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0334/gecan.php

I hated the institutions of my youth, but having kids changes the way I think.

I used to hate baseball, how it it made a perfect order out of the howling winds of chaos, and who wants order when they can have howling winds. But playing catch with my boy brings back a flood of memories of contiuity. THe order makes life easier. And what is wrong with a bit of ease?

Yeah, I could have written that, but it would not have been as polite.

You may recall that the pack I moved in was neither jock nor freak (a binary ethos similar to the tribes identified in the article.) Some of the jocks dubbed us "unique freaks", primarily because, when they decided to practice their usual freak-bashing on us, we hit back, and hit hard.

Sure, we identified, physically and, to some extent, culturally, with the freaks. But we never left ourselves open to gratuitous asaults from aggressive jagoffs.

That's a lesson the leadership of the Dems needs to learn. But I'm not real hopeful in that regard.

Its a matter of valueing diversity. Letting people be who they are, without letting your judgement be so severe that that you can not deal with them, and accept them.

The left pissed everybody off, not becuase they fought for the rights of blacks, woman, and gays but becuase they ignored and saterized the everyday lives of the white ethnic.

Clebrating the cultures of our ancestors, while allowing others to follow their cultural needs
is what America is all about, and is one of the main reasons we are a dynamic nation.

Unfortunately the neo cons beleive there is only one cultural standard. Too many good ethnic people have adopted the shameless and hypocritical huckerstrism of "the good american" becusase they did not want to take the prejudice from both the left and the right.

Yeah, despite their vaunted commitment to diversity, the liberal power elite don't have much regard for the hoi polloi. And nothing turns off the working stiffs like a swell.

Bush knows that. That's why we see this Yalie scion of Old Money down on his "ranch" in Texas clearing weeds, and saying "nucular."

Old man Daley knew it too, the difference being that Daley actually had humble origins, and a humble lifestyle. The elitist liberals treated him like he was a bean-brain -- and they never saw him coming as a result. Daley (the elder) was brilliant.

Although Americans tend to aspire up, and resent down, they have a very low tolerance for snobs.