I try not to ever talk about politics with people I don't know well, not because I don't have opinions but because I am so pathetically ill-informed that I can't defend them properly. But sometimes I get blindsided by politics, and I manage to learn a little something, about something or other.
1.
D: To even do ok in the debate, Joseph Biden had to be so smart and so erudite and so careful, and all Sarah Palin had to do was not be a monkey. Really, people are thrilled that she formed complete sentences and didn't fling her own feces.
2.
J: So, everybody knows that light has amplitude, right?
Me: Ok, now I know, but only because you just told me this second. I don't think normal people know that.
J: Normal people?
Me: Well, most people.
J: The people who are going to be allowed to vote in two weeks don't know this? Oh no!
My mother says what you gonna do with your life
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
1 comment:
it IS very odd: how the debate is apparently a contest, because one person can 'win' it, but one of them is understood to be trying to win at the decathalon, and one of them is understood to be trying to win at, like, duplo. sigh.
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