I would like her to be able to recite a little poetry from memory (other than Robert Service say)
It would be nice if she could locate Yemen on a map.
A good sign would be if she knew what the Reconstruction was.
Very hopeful if she had a history of donating to charities (other than sponsored by her church).
I would congratulate her if she could identify who the combatants were in WWII and who were Himmler and Eichmann.
Laurels would be in order if she could name a Shakespearian play other than R & J and Othello.
I would want to think about getting enthusiastic about her if she could give a very short sentence about the Enlightenment.
And maybe something about Galileo and the Church too.
Would it be too much to ask of her that she was familiar with the Palmer Raids, or the japanese internments, or the HUAC activities or the White Citizen Councils.
Perhaps she might display knowledge of SCLC or CORE or SNCC?
I would ask her if she listens to Mozart or Beethoven, or Hayden, or Brahms and is there a violin concerto that stirs her?
Does she love Manet, or Monet, or Debussey or Ravel, or Faure, or Fallingwater?
In short, does she carry with her to some degree, the joy and beauty and wisdom of liberal civilization and its lessons?
If not, she is as unqualified as the last President and Vice President were.
SP herself likely also has no comprehension of polling or random sampling, so if she can get a bunch of friends to freep the poll, she may believe it.
What's better? Leaving her to her delusions of competence? Or trying to make this beauty contest (masquerading as a poll) more in line with reality?
Good catch, c4Logic!
All ready decided! Ain't gonna take no stinkin' poll other than next Tuesday's.
Favorite Books 100 Years of Solitude
Cat's Cradle
Heart of Darkness
The Penultimate Truth
Favorite Quotes "Of course your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" Niels Bohr
"Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction." Buckminster Fuller
Bio
I was raised by a kindly old gentleman in the wilderness near the Rio Branco. He died of natural causes when I was 16, and I drifted down river in a bark canoe not knowing what I would find and eventually arrived at a settlement of Franciscan missionaries.It was then I discovered that we had not been the only white men left after the Nuclear Holocaust, that in fact, there had never been a Nuclear Holocaust, and there was no need to forge our own bronze and iron and live off the bounty of the rain forest. I was probably kidnapped as a small child. I have dim memories of someone called Mae and Pai. I wandered the Pan American highway till I settled for a time in Zipolite, Mexico, where I worked as a silversmith. Eventually I met a beautiful young woman who was independently wealthy and she married me and took me to live in N Ca where we live on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. I have my own forge, and do blacksmithing for the local horses, in addition to my silver and bronze work. Adaptation to modern civilization has been a challenge for me ever since I realized I was deprived of my natural family and raised by someone who, though kind, must have been something of a lunatic. He did teach me many practical survival skills, however so I guess he wasn't all bad. I have ambivalent feelings about my whole childhood.
Qualified?
I would like her to be able to recite a little poetry from memory (other than Robert Service say)
It would be nice if she could locate Yemen on a map.
A good sign would be if she knew what the Reconstruction was.
Very hopeful if she had a history of donating to charities (other than sponsored by her church).
I would congratulate her if she could identify who the combatants were in WWII and who were Himmler and Eichmann.
Laurels would be in order if she could name a Shakespearian play other than R & J and Othello.
I would want to think about getting enthusiastic about her if she could give a very short sentence about the Enlightenment.
And maybe something about Galileo and the Church too.
Would it be too much to ask of her that she was familiar with the Palmer Raids, or the japanese internments, or the HUAC activities or the White Citizen Councils.
Perhaps she might display knowledge of SCLC or CORE or SNCC?
I would ask her if she listens to Mozart or Beethoven, or Hayden, or Brahms and is there a violin concerto that stirs her?
Does she love Manet, or Monet, or Debussey or Ravel, or Faure, or Fallingwater?
In short, does she carry with her to some degree, the joy and beauty and wisdom of liberal civilization and its lessons?
If not, she is as unqualified as the last President and Vice President were.
October 28, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
SP herself likely also has no comprehension of polling or random sampling, so if she can get a bunch of friends to freep the poll, she may believe it.
What's better? Leaving her to her delusions of competence? Or trying to make this beauty contest (masquerading as a poll) more in line with reality?
Good catch, c4Logic!
October 28, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
All ready decided! Ain't gonna take no stinkin' poll other than next Tuesday's.
October 29, 2008 12:46 AM | Reply | Permalink