tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32908111.post116231497160923578..comments2024-02-15T21:08:50.441-05:00Comments on TRISH'S DISHES: Rethinking my political geographyTrish Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038324441006141430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32908111.post-1162470138556658682006-11-02T07:22:00.000-05:002006-11-02T07:22:00.000-05:00Hey Trish, this is a post from me cuz. My boyfrien...Hey Trish, this is a post from me cuz. My boyfriend doesn't have to write them for me. I'm thinking of getting a blog, do you think I should include my 8th grade photo from the GLamour SHots at the mall of America? <BR/>SuzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32908111.post-1162357078112502032006-10-31T23:57:00.000-05:002006-10-31T23:57:00.000-05:00Who knew that I fled the housing prices in a close...Who knew that I fled the housing prices in a closeted "conservative utopia" to come to a closeted liberal utopia land locked within the biggest conservative-with-mandatory-gun-racks state? Go figure.<BR/><BR/>As always, you make me laugh and think. Not necessarily in that order.LEstes65https://www.blogger.com/profile/15963146455105319876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32908111.post-1162342027475871122006-10-31T19:47:00.000-05:002006-10-31T19:47:00.000-05:00Hey Trish -- This is a post from National Review t...Hey Trish -- This is a post from National Review that my husband posted:<BR/><BR/>Andrew Sullivan Should Teach<BR/>[David French 10/26 04:53 PM]<BR/><BR/>I spent most of my lunch hour listening to Hugh Hewitt’s interview of Andrew Sullivan, and I immediately thought that Andrew had missed his calling. He should be teaching at a university. He can still blog and write, but the university is his true home. As I listened to Hugh and Andrew, I was struck by Andrew’s style of argument. For those who don’t know, Andrew has a new book arguing that conservatism is betrayed by religious conservatives like me. True conservatism, to Sullivan, is a conservatism of doubt. It is my (perceived) moral certainty that makes me suspect, while Sullivan believes that truth is so very difficult to discern.<BR/><BR/>But not with respect to same-sex marriage. Or torture. Or habeas corpus. Or about the Bush administration’s conduct of a hard-fought war. Now, I don’t think it is out of bounds for Sullivan to have strong opinions about those things, but to turn around and attack folks like me as “Christianist” when we disagree is a bit, well, academic. Throughout the interview, I was having flashbacks to the odd form of argument that dominated so many exchanges at law school and again when I taught. On the one hand, professors and students would speak with absolute certainty and complete conviction about issues of race, gender, war, peace, sexuality, and economics, and then condescendingly sneer at my “moralistic and “simplistic” “black and white” responses. When I would contrast this embrace of relativism with the certainty of their previously expressed convictions, the response was something like, “but how could anyone of good will deny [fill in the blank]?” And so it would go, round and round, with one side enjoying both the benefits of certainty and the condescension that comes from their imaginary dedication to complexity and moral doubt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32908111.post-1162320919558942772006-10-31T13:55:00.000-05:002006-10-31T13:55:00.000-05:00Massachusetts takes a LOT of grief for being liber...Massachusetts takes a LOT of grief for being liberal - yet often has a Republican governor, always has top schools in the country, a growth economy that is the envy of the rust belt, and boasts one of the LOWEST divorce rates in the nation! The bible belt, where Massachusetts is consider "Sodom" or is that "Gomorrah" has the highest divorce rates. NYAH NYAH YALL!<BR/><BR/>KIM :)Kim Rossi Staglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687828526726281119noreply@blogger.com