liberal gets without being retarded. and i exercise my right to hate
-- equally -- both moonbats and wingnuts, because they are morons.
'cept i call moonbats 'cali-liberal pinheads', and i think wingnuts
are too abhorrent to deserve a cute name. butsoanyway.
i have an open mind, and am not afraid of others' opinions, though i
do stew and steam over some of them privately. i would be the mom who
knows she's raised her children to be independent freethinkers, and
would have no worries over them listening to the most theatrically
obscene of music, or, conversely, attending a jesusfreak concert. what
one listens to and reads can be good or entertaining without agreeing
with me.
butsoanyway.
so i'm listening (low volume, and it goes off when a student
approaches) to a local wingnut radio show as i'm holding office hours.
i also occasionally listen to rush and glenn beck-type shows. why?
because they are often funny. because i believe 'know thine enemy' is
pretty nifty advice. because i can agree with some of it and not be a
cross-waving, bible-thumping freak. there is NO opinion that is
all-wrong-all-the-time, or all-right, for that matter. plus, i already
have a pretty good idea of what the libs think, cos i lean that way.
plus i listen to npr daily. ;-)
fuckaduck...i even listen to coast to coast; i am addicted to news and
information. and reading, for that matter. though anymore i can't
manage the pleasure-reading thing.
well, i just got accosted by a co-worker about being some kind of
closet conservative, and this isn't the first time. i am a little
enraged. since when does 'being true' mean favouring taking away the
right to free speech, or locking oneself away from anything that
resembles a differing opinion? of course i didn't pick a fight, but
hell...newsflash: *all* candidates this go-round are less than ideal
in my book. and i am keeping my opinion on the d-low as it were, but i
feel that i already know who will win (though meg, minimeg, and karen
vehemently insist i am delusional) and am therefore listening largely
for entertainment purposes.
and cos the unabridged southern vampire mysteries audiobooks aren't
out yet, but that's another story.
one of my jobs is in an extremely liberal environment (the other less
so with a military bent, and eviljob is largely neutral because it is
a corporate culture and we are *required* to be neutral), and i do
appreciate (and languish luxuriously) in being with my alleged fellow
moonbats...until they catch rabies. since when is it a requirement of
being liberal to have a closed mind?
in other news, harry changed to a new neurologist and is going to be
going in for testing to see if he is a candidate for surgery to stop
his seizures. it would be great if he is, cos he's spending over $900
a month for prescriptions now (and that is *with* eviljob's very
excellent prescription coverage...that's why i stay there and
supported his getting hired), and in this economy, that's huge.
i want halloween to last for two months. i already started
celebrating. oh...in other good news, baby bat has a premier role in
her silly-assed spookhouse endeavours this year -- the one she quit
eviljob to do, even though it is only once a year. craziness, but it
makes her happy, so yay.
i am taking my grumpy-but-open mind out and on a trip to meet meg and
minimeg (and maybe sabra) for lunch in a bit... more yay there. to
look at me, one would never know that i *enjoy* hanging out with
mathematics phds, but it is blessed relief on days like this.
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