On Palin

I won't be able to see her speech tonight. I'm working. Yay me.

But here's what I think:

I'm glad Alaska's being noticed for something other than corruption scandals and oil.

I'm tired of the negative way people view my state. Some *cough*PDiddy*cough* seem to think that if a place isn't full of crime, crackheads, and oh yeah, black people, they don't matter. That cuts out the entire middle section of the country now doesn't it? And by the way, we do have black people up here. But with a lower population state, there is a smaller number of them. It's simple math folks.


Some people are proud of not living in a huge city. Some of us like not having a skyline of skyscrapers. I'd rather worry about being mauled by a bear in a park than survive a day in a place bigger than Anchorage.

Speaking of rural, it's rural areas that put bread on your table, blue collar workers who build your cars; and the non-office types who you love to watch catching crabs. There's nothing wrong with not spending your entire day in the office, and for people who do spend their days in offices to look down on those who don't is being ignorant of the value of those people. (Not that all white collar workers feel that way, but it's the prevalent opinion on the media these days.)

 

And that's about all the eloquent things I can say on that topic.

 

Ta.