Gardening since 1944
I completed a graduate degree in History May 2012 at age 70. Before I retired, I was the manager of an economics group in a large corporation until 1989. After that. I worked for the Census Bureau and retired permanently in 2006.
When I am not reading I am gardening.
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Pointy Headed Intellectuals and Effete Intellectual Snobs
If you consider yourself an intellectual, I ask you this question. Do you think the best way to heal the divisions in this country to constantly insult those who oppose your viewpoint? Aren’t we intelligent enough to find a better way?
haha!!! love that cartoon! LOL.
As for politics, you can’t live without it if you want to be a citizen. But if you take it too seriously, you will end up getting into an argument if not a fist fight!
I’m an optomist, so I take politics seriously. Seriously.
Yes, Diane, there is a better way. Everyone could just agree with me.
I am certain the better way involves agreement with Big Al.
I used to be an effete intellectual snob. Now I get so angry that I need a false front that says I don’t give a damn. Yes, there is always a better way.
I’m working on the I Don’t Give a Damn positon. myself, but its hard.
I really think politics has gotten rude, hypocritical and ugly lately. I’m trying not to care.
Tip O’Neil used to say politics is local. Perhaps that’s where a better representation can be had.
What a funny cartoon. Thanks for the chuckle, Politics doesn’t offer much in the way of humor, just distress and frustration.
It is especially frustrating when yesterday’s policy of the right becomes today’s policy of the left and vice versa. Take almost anything beginning with tax cuts. This is why I vote for the individual person regardless of party.
Politics in the US seems much more divisive than in the UK. Perhaps it is something to do with the size of the countries.
Our country is huge, but smaller than the continent of Africa which is much more diverse.
That’s what I keep writing — why write a blog that preaches to the choir if individuals in any party want to influence change? People are certainly less likely to read a blog that resorts to name-calling and vitriol about issues the reader holds dear. Wouldn’t it be better to write in such a manner as to stimulate thinking about all sides of an issue? If one must rage, there is a way to do so civilly. Oh, well! What do I know!
I think you know a lot, which is why I read your blog. Provocative but not nuts….that’s you. At our age, we should know no one has ALL the answers.