Letters to the Editor
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Vitriol, Mona?
Okay, Mona, this is how I remember it, and you can check it with the "letters" archives.
1) You were decrying, loud long and vociferously, the "fairness doctrine, and any possibility or use for the doctrine in broadcasting. Check the thread.
2) I made a joke about "Asperger's Syndrome-by-proxy syndrome, by proxy" (That's two proxies away, Mona)
3) You then revealed (in what looked to me like the cheapest kind of emotional blackmail) that you have a child who may be diagnosed with Asperger's.
Now Mona, try reading this carefully cause I am, as you say, incoherent:
4) Mona, a very good friend of mine has two daughters who have been diagnosed with Asperger's. Now I know that Asperger's Syndrome covers a range of neurological and behavioral symptoms, but if managed and treated is no bar to high intelligence, high function, or high achievement. They've done a fantastic job with those wonderful girls, but it was no easy row. Yeah, they needed some help from the State, and maybe Federal disability programs, but that of course, is a matter of cash, money, dollars.
But Mona, do you know what no amount of money can buy them or their daughters?
There is no amount of money which will give their teachers, schoolmates, friends and relatives the knowledge and understanding these kids need (and it's not a whole lot, really) to function and achieve their best.
But what if everyone who comes in contact with them thinks, say, that Asperger's is just a scam to suck benefits out of the government? They can hear that on "talk radio" all the time! Or maybe think that Asperger's is just like total psychopathy, an association which was, and is common about epilepsy!
Is that what you want for these kids, my friend's daughters who have Aspergers? Taunting? Ostracism? Taken advantage of in the areas, the social function areas, in which they might not function too well?
Well, as some kind of flaccid liberal, that is not what I want! I want their teachers, their friends and their friend's parents to have an adequate understanding of these conditions and the accommodations we may need to take to make them function best. And that is not going to come from Rush, Billo or Ann, thank you.
And yeah, I think it's society's responsibility to make an effort to supply this, so these kids have their best chance.
And what astounded me, is that given the position you revealed to me, that you might be the mother of a child who might be challenged by Asperger's, that you thought more of your libertarian theory than, well, even now I can't believe it.
That's the way I remember it Mona. And yeah, it shocks me right into incoherence, I'll readily admit that.
Denying fairness to others on principle is one thing. Denying it to yourself is another.It's screwy, but it's your life. But denying it to children? Not for me.
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Derbig, all we are saying
... is you are not giving peace a chance.
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@Mona
and who has time,
I had time, and I went back and checked. Do you remember it different, or have you checked the thread? Cause I did.
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@LWM
Now, my friend, do something to make me happy. Make peace with Mona. It is possible for most of us here to agree to disagree civilly, don't you agree? Most of us have managed to do that and those few we can not find comity with, we just ignore. But I would urge you not to ignore Mona, even if you don't agree with her all the time. I do not agree with her all the time. I agree with her some of the time but we get along when we don't.
Thanks, LWM.
I'm just in a foul mood because my primary blog (AoTP) has insane server issues going on. Last nite and most of today it was directing folks to an addiction recovery blog, and an hour ago to some photographer's site. The AoTP owner has been raising hell with the server company, but the issue persists.
Just what a newish blog paying some people to write and hoping to make a footprint needs. Click my sig and at this point you'll get, oh maybe, a site for training doggies to poop outside.
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@ Mona
Why you picked me out for that sort of acid commentary I do not know or understand, but you did....
Then again, Sh**ter and "Susan", if they ever even refer to me, just call me a "dickhead", "prick", or worse (albeit for reasons that are apparent, even if not at all excusable). But a little bit of tartness amongst the regular community just adds flavour, as long as we have Good Celery around to stir in a little sweetness to balance things out. ;-)
And thanks for your good wishes. BTW, I'd never known that that one item should prove so difficult ... but then again, it's my first time through this. My fiancée, OTOH, has done this before, so she ought to have had an inkling. But we're ambitious in putting this all on with less than three months head-start .. and hopeful. And that's what it's all about, nicht wahr?
Cheers,
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"2) I made a joke about "Asperger's Syndrome-by-proxy syndrome, by proxy" (That's two proxies away, Mona)"
Ok Derbig, so you are pissed at me because I don't think jokes about Asperger's Syndrome (which can be a very severe autism disability) are funny? You've just been waiting to sling mud at me because I said so?
Well, that explains why you go all vitriol in an unrelated thread. [eyes rolling]
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Art of the possible
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error, just now.
The Doggie-go-doo tutorial might actually be an improvement ... sorry you're having all the trouble!
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QS & Derbig
QS - One of my daughters was on it. We used to say, "We like the way it Effexor!" Then we didn't.
Derbig - I've been meaning to send this to you and since Glenn seems to be away (perhaps planning nuptials himself), why not now:
I had ‘em rolling is the aisles with this anecdote at my younger daughter’s bat mitzvah a couple years ago.
The bat mitzvah girl and I were driving to grandma’s and were looking at various vanity plates and she remarked to me, “Daddy do you know what license plate I want when I get big?” “What, my little pumpkin?” “EVILJEW,” she replied. Well, I mumbled that I didn’t know what the DMV would think about that, and when we got home I said to Mrs. Snoid, “Bad news, dear. Do you know what she wants to be? It’s EVILJEW.” Turning from the sink, she fixed her most radiant smile on me and exclaimed, Jew? ……………………… Great!