Letters to the Editor
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@ rphillips111
"Marxist Express?"
Really? That's the best you can do?
1956 called. They'd like their opposition research back.
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reactionary fill-up
yep, them commies is everywhere. go tend your geese and work on your goosestep. Idiot.
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Jeffersonian
Why even acknowledge the idiocy of people like reactionary phil?
Oh, and as you know, Mr. Jefferson loathed public speaking. The question is: Would he loathe these threads?
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Jeffersonian, one more thing
Sorry, but I was eavesdropping on your update to my dear Uncle Fester.
I had a SLAP lesion, partial RTC, and chipped scapula that was fixed surgically a few years back. I'm young, healthy, strong, and have a high pain tolerance. My first few days post-surgery I experienced the most excruciating physical pain ever. So, good luck to your wife.
The most excruciating emotional pain I've ever felt was watching my mother suffer from and die of Alzheimer's.
All this is to say, I think I understand you better now, and I really, truly feel for you.
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Uncle Fester
Aren't we about due for another conversation about what's on the grill tonight and what wine goes with it?
You can tell how tired I am of the vitriol on these threads.
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ethics, et al
Jeffersonian comes from my father's career as a history professor, and particularly of American history. He was fond of talking about the Jeffersonian ideal,which is someone grounded in working the land, or doing a trade, or pursuing commerce, but at heart a well educated, curious, involved citizen. Jefferson thought the future of the republic was centered on such men (now women, thank God). So, it's a nod to that philosophy, not an aspiration to model myself after the man. I'd stand no chance. But, thanks, ethics professor, for seeing the literal and psychological pain with which I am currently dealing. But, I'm not in Burma, or Darfur, and my children are not in Iraq, so I have much to be grateful for.
Regarding the grill, I"m afraid tonight will be cobbled together of leftovers from yesteday's BBQ, since we have to be babysitting two of our grandchildren by seven. On mother's day, however, teriyaki pork tenderloin, seared ahi with wasabi mayonnaise, coconut rice, a stir fry with boy choy, spring garlic, sweet red peppers, peruvian onions, and a dash of hosin and sesame oil. Mothers day, and I still have my mother, 87 and coping with dad's haunting decline better than I am by far, and my wife, mother of our four amazing men and women, and our daughters, each a mother of two (one a boy and then a girl, the other just the other way 'round. Sounds so symmetrical, yet it's all so random. Our family planning oft times consisted of a glass of Mateus, some Herbie Mann or Hubert Laws, and a dash to the bed room; or the kitchen. Whatever. Hey, it was the seventies. Behind all this, we retain the
cockeyed optimism of progressives, believing against all evidence that this country, and this world can be better, and we can be, in our own modest ways, instruments of that change. The spring garlic doesn't hurt, either. Probably a local Savignon Blanc and maybe a Jadot Beaujolais for old time's sake. best, jeff
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Ethics et al
Jeffersonian, you paint a picture of yourself as one of the arrogant wine and cheese liberal elitists we talk a lot about on these forums.
I would point out that Thomas Jefferson was a hereditary slaveowner and a Virginia Aristocrat descended from English Royalty, so you might want to change your username.
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Jeffersonian
Hey, can I come for dinner tomorrow? I mean, what's one more mouth, right? Fester might want to come as well.
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fill up with low octane
I know full well Jefferson's history. a deeply flawed man, and one to whom we owe an unpayable debt. As far as the wine and cheese liberal slur, I give a shit what you think. Our family, four generations worth, gets together almost every Sunday for a great meal and to be together. The rest of the week is rice and bean time. Fester asked about what we were serving for mother's day, and I responded. You probably take Mom to the McDrive-through if you pay her any attention at all. So, yeah, once a week we eat pretty high on the hog, the other six days it's slim pickings. The fact that our family has attained college education (by work and scholarship, not by legacy or money) doesn't make us apologetic for knowing the difference between Bo Diddley and Beaujolais. You sound like a typical trailer trash republikan to me. I could send you our spent corks, and you could insert them as leisure permits. how fitting your screen name coincides with a screwdriver: a tool for a tool.