A while back I said "bring it" when it came to political feedback on the blog. It was brought. I'm inundated. And now I can hardly find the time to actually blog with all this writing of soliloquies in response to all of the anti-liberal feedback I've been getting. It's pretty raw and rough in there. Apparently it's gotten so bad that some of my regular readers can no longer stand to read the comments.
Ah, well, such is life. BUSH SUCKS!
Obligatory funny site reference here.
Posted by jherr at June 17, 2004 04:44 PMWell Jack, I would have cried uncle sooner than you did. The republican nay-sayers have certainly been giving you a time of it. Your holding your own wonderfully and we are proud of you!
Posted by: lefty Lucy at June 17, 2004 06:55 PMWow, I missed all of the festivities. As far as I can tell, all religion really does for most people is help them draw yet another line between who's in the club and who's out of the club. And the clubs have some pretty weird rituals.
Your mention of a gay co-worker in Miami brought back a lot of memories. I think of the U of Miami at that time as the most racially polarized workplace I've ever encountered. It seemed like all of the researchers were white or asian, all of the secretarial staff was Cuban, and all of the janitors were black--excect for one black researcher who always wore an immaculate white coat with the letters MD PhD visible from 100 yards. Is your recollection similar?
Posted by: Donna at June 19, 2004 03:51 AMLots of festivities indeed.
As to MIami. I remember two things in particular; first, the city itself always seemed angry and stressed about everything. For a city that was 'fun in a surf and sun' it had a super short fuse. Especially when you compare it with Key West. I have a friend here with a house in the Keys and when we talk about Miami he just shakes his head. He takes the expressway from the airport just to miss the whole scene.
The second thing I remember about the University was the fault line between faculty and staff. That faculty were the Kings and Queens and the staff was made to feel like transient day labor. This probably happens at any University or College. When you take the money out of a work situation I think people look for other ways to make themselves feel superior. At a non-profit that I worked for they replaced money games with vicious back-biting politics. Far worse than the politics that I saw at work.
I remember the racism in Miami, but not so much at the school. Although I vividly remember the racism in the community surrounding the school and the appalling ghettos. The Medical Campus was like a compound in the middle of a war zone.
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