More Than A Feeling
I just got back from Boston. I love that city. I love how one feels the history in the streets of the east coast. I love little Italy and Legal Seafoods and Union Oyster House and Faneuil Hall.
My friend and I also walked through Beacon Hill and peeked in some of the windows of the brownstones on John Kerry's street. Art, bold wall colors, chandeliers & at the end of a long hallway, one of the other half sitting in his beautiful hearth room reading the newspaper...unaware of the nosy peasants peeking in his window. Tacky of us? Perhaps. Gorgeous, majestic, curtain-less homes, indeed.
America is a pretty nice place, you know.
Last night (at 1 am, travel weary and burned out), I was going through the mail and I believe we got no less than four election related solicitations over the course of three days. Planned Parenthood, two environmental pleas, and some group sent an entire CD that "retails for 19.95, which outlines the threat of Islamic Extremism. I wish I had them with me so I could jot down each compelling side.
I started reading No Ordinary Time for my book club on this trip. I love Doris Kearns Goodwin. I've read Team of Rivals also. Her books tend to have 50 pages of references so I am dubious of these sketchy plagiarism charges from awhile back. Did Joe Biden plagiarize something? Or was that a stretch too? Someone mentioned that in Boston. We had such a good time talking politics on this trip...no we're not masochists or assholes, my coworkers and I have come to an understanding that rather than hate each other and divide America more, we are going to genuinely try to learn from each other. I don't find politics to be a taboo topic, like religion, as you can tell from this LJ. I never really have, as you can tell from this journal. Even with religion, if someone wants to talk about it, or if I am among people I can chat with comfortably about my own, I'm an open book. And, what's the point in arguing the sides or play the "woe is me" western euro seeking idealist when whoever gets in office will likely produce the same results as their "opposing ticket." Jeez. As, smjayman puts it, Your Candidate Sucks anyway.
On a related note, I may have to stop reading Rolling Stone. Some of those writers have seriously gone off the deep end.
My friend and I also walked through Beacon Hill and peeked in some of the windows of the brownstones on John Kerry's street. Art, bold wall colors, chandeliers & at the end of a long hallway, one of the other half sitting in his beautiful hearth room reading the newspaper...unaware of the nosy peasants peeking in his window. Tacky of us? Perhaps. Gorgeous, majestic, curtain-less homes, indeed.
America is a pretty nice place, you know.
Last night (at 1 am, travel weary and burned out), I was going through the mail and I believe we got no less than four election related solicitations over the course of three days. Planned Parenthood, two environmental pleas, and some group sent an entire CD that "retails for 19.95, which outlines the threat of Islamic Extremism. I wish I had them with me so I could jot down each compelling side.
I started reading No Ordinary Time for my book club on this trip. I love Doris Kearns Goodwin. I've read Team of Rivals also. Her books tend to have 50 pages of references so I am dubious of these sketchy plagiarism charges from awhile back. Did Joe Biden plagiarize something? Or was that a stretch too? Someone mentioned that in Boston. We had such a good time talking politics on this trip...no we're not masochists or assholes, my coworkers and I have come to an understanding that rather than hate each other and divide America more, we are going to genuinely try to learn from each other. I don't find politics to be a taboo topic, like religion, as you can tell from this LJ. I never really have, as you can tell from this journal. Even with religion, if someone wants to talk about it, or if I am among people I can chat with comfortably about my own, I'm an open book. And, what's the point in arguing the sides or play the "woe is me" western euro seeking idealist when whoever gets in office will likely produce the same results as their "opposing ticket." Jeez. As, smjayman puts it, Your Candidate Sucks anyway.
On a related note, I may have to stop reading Rolling Stone. Some of those writers have seriously gone off the deep end.