A rebuttal!
I finally got a rebuttal response to my letter in the Daily Star:
“Re: the October 29 letter to the editor ‘Right achieves; left in dreamland.’”
I am writing to comment the parents of this letter writer for the excellent job they did of home schooling.
If their son had been unfortunate enough to have had no alternative but to attend public schools, where those folks who ‘can’t do’ teach, the readers of the Star would not have had the opportunity to read such a thoughtful, articulate and well-written letter.
I feel very fortunate to have managed to acquire the necessary skills even to read the Star or his letter given that I was educated by liberal public school teachers in a dreamland.
I appreciate the writer’s letter, because, if I had any doubt about the fact that I am an achiever, unlike the losers in my family who chose to waste much of their lives teaching, I don’t now. I have not been ‘left’ in that wasteland
Betsey Woodbury
Photographer, Tucson”
Honestly, my first reaction was: huh?
My second reaction was: what a fucking moron you are! Notice that Ms. Betsey doesn’t once counter anything I said in my letter. She merely tries (and fails) to introduce effective sarcasm into her response and misses my point entirely. For those keeping score at home, that point was simply this: liberals infest academia because that’s the only place their ideas really have any relevance anymore. Those on the left have had their styles of government implemented (communism and socialism) and have witnessed less than spectacular results. The more right wing model of libertarianism and unregulated free-markets has been a smashing success (cough *USA* cough).
In the world of thought without action, theory without implementation (academia), liberals are sure to be found. Historically, we owe liberals and leftists a great deal but to quote floppy tittied Janet Jackson, “what have you done for me lately?” You know, besides murder 100 million or so people under communism and drag Soviet Russia, Cuba and Eastern Europe into economic ruin.
Betsey assumes I was home schooled. Wrong Betsey. I went K-8 in the public school system and the last time I checked, the University of Arizona was a public university. The four missing years were spent at a private school with – gasp – teachers!
Furthermore, I never meant to impugn the motives, desire or even the ability of our teachers in a classroom setting and it completely escapes me how anyone could have taken it that way. I never claimed that the liberals were ineffective as teachers; just that teaching – standing behind a podium and pontificating – is a refuge for those who are never asked to produce tangible results. It doesn’t help her case that I was specifically speaking to the situation in our universities and not the K-12 system anyway. But who knows, maybe she is making the point she thought I was trying to make. What I mean is: maybe public school teachers did indeed fail Betsey because she seems unable to grasp my point. Reading comprehension is a bitch, you know?
“Re: the October 29 letter to the editor ‘Right achieves; left in dreamland.’”
I am writing to comment the parents of this letter writer for the excellent job they did of home schooling.
If their son had been unfortunate enough to have had no alternative but to attend public schools, where those folks who ‘can’t do’ teach, the readers of the Star would not have had the opportunity to read such a thoughtful, articulate and well-written letter.
I feel very fortunate to have managed to acquire the necessary skills even to read the Star or his letter given that I was educated by liberal public school teachers in a dreamland.
I appreciate the writer’s letter, because, if I had any doubt about the fact that I am an achiever, unlike the losers in my family who chose to waste much of their lives teaching, I don’t now. I have not been ‘left’ in that wasteland
Betsey Woodbury
Photographer, Tucson”
Honestly, my first reaction was: huh?
My second reaction was: what a fucking moron you are! Notice that Ms. Betsey doesn’t once counter anything I said in my letter. She merely tries (and fails) to introduce effective sarcasm into her response and misses my point entirely. For those keeping score at home, that point was simply this: liberals infest academia because that’s the only place their ideas really have any relevance anymore. Those on the left have had their styles of government implemented (communism and socialism) and have witnessed less than spectacular results. The more right wing model of libertarianism and unregulated free-markets has been a smashing success (cough *USA* cough).
In the world of thought without action, theory without implementation (academia), liberals are sure to be found. Historically, we owe liberals and leftists a great deal but to quote floppy tittied Janet Jackson, “what have you done for me lately?” You know, besides murder 100 million or so people under communism and drag Soviet Russia, Cuba and Eastern Europe into economic ruin.
Betsey assumes I was home schooled. Wrong Betsey. I went K-8 in the public school system and the last time I checked, the University of Arizona was a public university. The four missing years were spent at a private school with – gasp – teachers!
Furthermore, I never meant to impugn the motives, desire or even the ability of our teachers in a classroom setting and it completely escapes me how anyone could have taken it that way. I never claimed that the liberals were ineffective as teachers; just that teaching – standing behind a podium and pontificating – is a refuge for those who are never asked to produce tangible results. It doesn’t help her case that I was specifically speaking to the situation in our universities and not the K-12 system anyway. But who knows, maybe she is making the point she thought I was trying to make. What I mean is: maybe public school teachers did indeed fail Betsey because she seems unable to grasp my point. Reading comprehension is a bitch, you know?
posted by Sivlitz at 9:22 PM
1 Comments:
screw you dude! Janet's titties rule! i'd suckle on those for days if she wanted me to!............oh yeah about that whole conservative/liberal thing, um, yeah I guess.
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