Comments on: The Amazing Racism http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/ If it smells, we're on it. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nojo http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48247 nojo Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:35:22 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48247 @<a href="#comment-48246" rel="nofollow">The Nabisco Quiver are Go!</a>: Yeah, well, I <i>walked</i> to grade school and junior high for nine years. I <i>earned</i> that two years of Jeeping. @The Nabisco Quiver are Go!: Yeah, well, I walked to grade school and junior high for nine years. I earned that two years of Jeeping.

]]> By: The Nabisco Quiver are Go! http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48246 The Nabisco Quiver are Go! Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:29:07 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48246 What's funny is that I consider it slightly eeleetist to have Mom drop the kid (rarely more than one) off at school, when there are perfectly good school buses. But then I always rode a BlueBird, even in high school when all the Nojos were <i>driving themselves</i>. By fifteen I was allowed to go by bike, which gave rise to my affection for two wheeled locomotion. There's a different kind of freedom when you hop on your banana seat and skedaddle off school property on your own terms. Now we live in bucolic small town America, and Junior and Sis will be able to walk the 2 miles or so on their own in a year or two. What’s funny is that I consider it slightly eeleetist to have Mom drop the kid (rarely more than one) off at school, when there are perfectly good school buses. But then I always rode a BlueBird, even in high school when all the Nojos were driving themselves.

By fifteen I was allowed to go by bike, which gave rise to my affection for two wheeled locomotion. There’s a different kind of freedom when you hop on your banana seat and skedaddle off school property on your own terms.

Now we live in bucolic small town America, and Junior and Sis will be able to walk the 2 miles or so on their own in a year or two.

]]> By: SanFranLefty http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48244 SanFranLefty Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:10:16 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48244 @<a href="#comment-48242" rel="nofollow">Benedick</a>: Not to mention hoofing it or biking to and from school might do something about the childhood obesity epidemic. /latchkey kid of the '70s @Benedick: Not to mention hoofing it or biking to and from school might do something about the childhood obesity epidemic.

/latchkey kid of the ’70s

]]> By: Benedick http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48242 Benedick Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:01:48 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48242 You funny Americanscis. Children can make their own way to school. Which would release about two-thirds of school budgets to examine Darwin's theory. A win-win situation. You funny Americanscis.

Children can make their own way to school. Which would release about two-thirds of school budgets to examine Darwin’s theory. A win-win situation.

]]> By: Just Jamie http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48239 Just Jamie Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:56:37 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48239 @<a href="#comment-48231" rel="nofollow">Benedick</a>: I'm not really sure what the answer is but I'll give you my default answer to similar inquiries. Lawsuits. @Benedick: I’m not really sure what the answer is but I’ll give you my default answer to similar inquiries.

Lawsuits.

]]> By: redmanlaw http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48238 redmanlaw Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:55:01 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48238 Like Benedick, I'm paying taxes for a service I don't use even though I have a school age kid. On the other hand, I don't mind helping out on public school bond issues, and the local rodeo grounds, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and senior centers, etc. via taxes. Son of RML's Catholic school does not have any buses, and the local not bad city bus does not have a convenient route there so I pile him in the truck and drive him over (about 8-10 mins) like all the other parents. I just wonder what our school's carbon footprint is for that. If we have our shit together, Mrs RML and I keep going toward downtown and she picks him up at the end of the day, while I stay at work 'til 5 and catch the bus home. (Bet I was the only guy reading "The Prince" on the bus the week before last.) I rode the bus to school as a kid from the village on the rez to town. Like Benedick, I’m paying taxes for a service I don’t use even though I have a school age kid. On the other hand, I don’t mind helping out on public school bond issues, and the local rodeo grounds, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and senior centers, etc. via taxes.

Son of RML’s Catholic school does not have any buses, and the local not bad city bus does not have a convenient route there so I pile him in the truck and drive him over (about 8-10 mins) like all the other parents. I just wonder what our school’s carbon footprint is for that. If we have our shit together, Mrs RML and I keep going toward downtown and she picks him up at the end of the day, while I stay at work ’til 5 and catch the bus home. (Bet I was the only guy reading “The Prince” on the bus the week before last.) I rode the bus to school as a kid from the village on the rez to town.

]]> By: Benedick http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48231 Benedick Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:18:51 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48231 Wait. You have a child. (you poor dear) Said child must get to school. Why is it my responsibility? Children scare me. I won't be in an empty room with them. You get them to school. Why must I employ a cadre of unemployable senior citizens to drive miles and miles to pick them up and deliver them later? Wait. You have a child. (you poor dear) Said child must get to school. Why is it my responsibility? Children scare me. I won’t be in an empty room with them. You get them to school. Why must I employ a cadre of unemployable senior citizens to drive miles and miles to pick them up and deliver them later?

]]> By: nojo http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48230 nojo Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:08:21 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48230 @<a href="#comment-48226" rel="nofollow">Benedick</a>: A bus company? Oh, right. Outsourcing. Our district owned its buses, and kept them in a lot across from my high school. As to your question: Like Medicare, anything that existed prior to 1981 isn't socialism but a god-given American right. @Benedick: A bus company?

Oh, right. Outsourcing. Our district owned its buses, and kept them in a lot across from my high school.

As to your question: Like Medicare, anything that existed prior to 1981 isn’t socialism but a god-given American right.

]]> By: Benedick http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48229 Benedick Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:04:46 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48229 But why is this not the parents' responsibility? If I can't be gay married to the OH why do I have to pay for little Brittney to get to school? But why is this not the parents’ responsibility? If I can’t be gay married to the OH why do I have to pay for little Brittney to get to school?

]]> By: FlyingChainSaw http://www.stinque.com/2009/09/16/the-amazing-racism/#comment-48228 FlyingChainSaw Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:54:38 +0000 http://www.stinque.com/?p=13109#comment-48228 @<a href="#comment-48226" rel="nofollow">Benedick</a>: Absolutely. In fact, if they walk on your lawn, you are obligated by the second amendment to use them for target practice. @Benedick: Absolutely. In fact, if they walk on your lawn, you are obligated by the second amendment to use them for target practice.

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