One final down one more to go -and that's just for this semester!
I have neglected "actual" blogging for a while and that's too bad, but the beauty of the right click "blog this" plug in is that any good/interesting/funny links won't get lost.
I think I might just update those entries to make them all just a row of links.
I just finished my poli sci class, and am sad to see it end.
No rancorous shouting matches, no invective laced diatribes, no ad hominem attacks... it's hard for me to get used to that sort of an environment when here (well not this blog but online) the "battlefield" is much more harsh.
I told my professor that I wasn't used to this sort of setting and I must say, I'm looking forward to more of the same whether its in my day to day activities or online in e-debate.
A product of my environment, what is my environment?
I grew up in the 70's in San Francisco, I remember the communists rallying on the corners, remember "las huelgas" remember my mother crying about losing her mother and my grandmother. Then moving on towards a music subculture where anything to the right of a socialist = blasphemy. Going to shows and hearing year after year of singers decrying everything having to do with" Amerikkka". I remember hearing in Berkeley, long before it was being mocked and derided on talk radio - the terms "wimmin" "patriarchy" "hegemony" and this was used to describe Democrats!

Now I'm in a netherworld, just like this blog.
Neither a "hardcore kid" nor a "responsible citizen".

I still enjoy the music, and the opposing politics don't ipset me, but I'm weary of talk.
I'm weary of people stating one thing and doing the other and find that I respect my political "opponents" more so than the apathetic individuals of all scenes.
Regular life or in the pit.
So again, I have to say that I will miss this class, I was pushed to do a lot of work and to marshall my thoughts at a level that I haven't done so up until this point.
I hope that I am involved in a class or group like this again.
I much rather battles of ideas over flame wars.
Thank you Heather!