Posts by Danielle
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Gawd, from the maturity of your writing I’d always picked that you were in your 30s.
I can’t believe you missed Giovanni and me whimpering pathetically on a regular basis about how Lucy is Better Than Us in Every Way and She is Four Years Old. We do it all the time. ;)
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
So they tell me. Having to apply it a zillion times a year gets pretty annoying, though.
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
ETA Never mind. Neither the time nor place for my irritation.
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A decade of ever-increasing paranoia and withdrawal and pain, in the place of that first gathering of light and voice and hope.
That's what I was trying and failing to say in the other thread. Thank you.
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Paul Campbell,
if you listened to NPR, watched public television
And *that's* the problem with your argument, right there. ;)
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You’d think that might have stuck in people’s minds.
With the help of *their* television news? Are you kidding? :) (We can’t even get people in NZ to remember how shitty privatisation was last go-round.)
The response in 2001, taking its cue from Bush, verged on the infantile
That’s true, but what was interesting to me was that very brief window before the infantilism started. There were a few weeks when people were asking questions, wanting to learn about reasons for the attacks. My third-tier university held well-attended “teach-in” evenings to discuss American foreign policy, for example. That quickly became subsumed, though. It was an odd time. I think with different leadership it could have turned out so much less awfully.
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but to the general public, it was entirely unexpected, and crippling
This. I think it can be pretty safely assumed that most people in the USA - with the exception of foreign policy experts and academics - had absolutely no clue.
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Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to webweaver,
I think those people outside the White House are mostly university students, who aren't known for their calmly reasonable responses to world events.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to 3410,
So... what exactly did Key say on the BBC about Kate?
I may have been slightly distracted by waves of powerful retching, but it was something like ".... and of course Kate's a very attractive young lady <smirk>..."
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Lilith __,
I loved them. I like people wearing unexpected things. (Insert hashtag about being one of three people on earth who loved Bjork's swan dress here.)