tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post115461059891875099..comments2023-10-01T04:39:40.541-04:00Comments on The Lipstick Republican: Generalization versus specializationJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623031374944444521noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post-1157940252545982012006-09-10T22:04:00.000-04:002006-09-10T22:04:00.000-04:00My sister, a school psychologist and a committed c...My sister, a school psychologist and a committed conservative, is a union rep. It tears her up. Yet somehow she soldiers on...Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00623031374944444521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post-1155389361551684802006-08-12T09:29:00.000-04:002006-08-12T09:29:00.000-04:00Ah, but you see, I am a teacher, and at one time a...Ah, but you see, I am a teacher, and at one time a Language Arts teacher, and it's against union rules to use "ain't".<BR/><BR/>By the way, one of the world's supreme ironies, is the fact that I am actually a member of a union, since I don't believe government employees should have the right to belong to unions. And worse, I am currently running to become an officer of said union. (I was my school's building rep for four years because no one else would do it)Gahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post-1155382554747677262006-08-12T07:35:00.000-04:002006-08-12T07:35:00.000-04:00I'm with you on that, Gahrie - note that the quote...I'm with you on that, Gahrie - note that the quote doesn't include "...perform bypass surgery, design a heavier-than-air flying machine..."<BR/><BR/>Heinlein wasn't the world's best writer. His prose really stunk a lot of the time, even among the (at the time) ungraceful universe of scifi writers. But he was certainly himself a Renaissance man, a storyteller whose stories tend to stick to the roof of your mind, and a person whose life was all about the living of it. <BR/><BR/>I used to have an ID bracelet, back in the days when kids thought ID bracelets were cool, on the reverse of which I had engraved, "<I>Dum vivimus, vivamus!</I>" in his honor, and in order to remind me to <I>live</I> while I live. (It was heck on wheels getting the engraving shop girl to see, and correctly engrave, the teeny difference between "vivimus" and "vivamus." And you <I>know</I> she was mentally rolling her eyes and thinking, "My God, what a frickin' geek!" the whole time.) Sometimes I wonder how well I can follow that philosophy with three kids, an ordinary job, a husband who goes to work in office clothes rather than a flight suit or pajamas, and the gray in my hair kept at bay by regular artifice these days... but what can you do? I'm playing the hand I was dealt, it's a hand with lots of intangible and tangible rewards even if we have to seek out the adventure rather than having it come to us, and I'm doing my best to teach my kids TANSTAAFL too (I go with the "ain't" formulation myself).Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00623031374944444521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8872252.post-1154794526990316142006-08-05T12:15:00.000-04:002006-08-05T12:15:00.000-04:00OH God...you quote Heinlein too?I was such a shall...OH God...you quote Heinlein too?<BR/><BR/>I was such a shallow and callow youth......<BR/><BR/>I agree with Heinlein in the general, but not neccessarily the specific. You should be able to deal with most situations as they come along, adapting as you need to. I guess I would say I believe in flexability more than specialization.<BR/><BR/>By the way my favorite Heinleinism is TINSTAAFL (There is no such thing as a free lunch)Gahriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795449308207016641noreply@blogger.com