Can someone, ANYONE, please explain to me how asking for identification before being allowed to vote is discrimanatory? Anyone?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401365.html
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Crabs in a Barrel
I'm a firm believer that the one thing that can unite our citizenry is our firm and undying hatred for individual success. We love winners, just don't win "too much." It's like the idiots I hear at the start of every football season or baseball season or basketball season: "The Patriots/Yankees/Lakers always win; give somebody else a chance." Excuse me? Everybody has the same chance at the beginning of every season. Everyone's record is the same: 0-0. What you do with it from there depends on your coaching and your talent. And, some would argue like it's a bad thing, your payroll.
The same holds true for individuals. In his article, David Ignatius skewers the President for appointing Ivy League educated men and women to important posts. What's wrong with that, exactly? Shouldn't the most talented and qualified people get jobs? Sure the President has put some crony hacks in important positions (Michael Brown, Harriet Miers, etc.), but many of his important positions are filled with people who succeded at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. So what? Perhaps a graduate of DeVry should head NASA. Would that make folks feel better?
Like it or not, get pissed at me if you will, but we are by and large a stupid country. If you listen to Sean Hannity's man on the street interviews every Thursday or watch the "Jay Walking" segment of the Tonight Show, you would think that most people can't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, don't know who the Secretary of Defense is, don't know why we celebrate Independence Day, and don't know who their own Senators and Congresspeople are. Ask someone at work to name all nine Supreme Court justices. They can't. But ask them who Brad Pitt is divorcing AND who he's dating right now and they can answer that with glee.
The same holds true for individuals. In his article, David Ignatius skewers the President for appointing Ivy League educated men and women to important posts. What's wrong with that, exactly? Shouldn't the most talented and qualified people get jobs? Sure the President has put some crony hacks in important positions (Michael Brown, Harriet Miers, etc.), but many of his important positions are filled with people who succeded at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. So what? Perhaps a graduate of DeVry should head NASA. Would that make folks feel better?
Like it or not, get pissed at me if you will, but we are by and large a stupid country. If you listen to Sean Hannity's man on the street interviews every Thursday or watch the "Jay Walking" segment of the Tonight Show, you would think that most people can't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, don't know who the Secretary of Defense is, don't know why we celebrate Independence Day, and don't know who their own Senators and Congresspeople are. Ask someone at work to name all nine Supreme Court justices. They can't. But ask them who Brad Pitt is divorcing AND who he's dating right now and they can answer that with glee.
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