bumper stickers

i was recently told by a co-worker (during one of the group discussions about politics and how the new president totally sucks and in which my mostly right wing colleagues – who i like – try to get me riled up about some such political issue), that my bumpersticker was offensive to him:

the bumper sticker was a gift from a good, san fransiscan pal. mind you, i live in an area in which “mccain/palin” bumper stickers STILL predominate. i was pleased to park behind this car today -

and instead of saying “you can suck it” to those that have a differing philosophical opinion of government then myself (which is what i believe they have said to me for the last 8 long years, and which seems VERY blatantly racially loaded) i think i will defer to this recent john stewart rant.. (thanks meggy!!)

so, is my bumper sticker offensive?

this day

 

i’m sure on some level i knew today was martin luther king day (because everyone ELSE has a three day weekend, perhaps??) and who doesn’t know that tomorrow is the inauguration (and my brother’s birthday)…

as i was getting dressed for work, i was actually thinking how grateful i am to have had parents that did not raise me to be prejudiced. now, i say this with many caveats because, without digressing into social dissection, everyone from anywhere has prejudices and, being a white woman raised in america, well, i have been the recipient of cultural and societal advantages that, unfortunately, not every american receives. however, again, i was thinking how grateful i am to have had parents that did not express whatever negative and prejudicial thoughts and feelings about people different from my family, despite the way they might have been raised, or were they might have come from.

in the 3rd grade, my family moved to san francisco, after my mom remarried. i went to miraloma elementary school on the opposite side of mt. davidson, where we lived. when i think back on it now, i know that that school, more so than others i had attended, was the united colors of Benetton of schools. and i LOVED it. i was in a “gifted” program were we stayed after school and did all these special activities – we silk screened original stories and pictures into books that we “bound” and published for our families. we made a radio show (this predates the “grimply sand” production, FYI). we got to watch the electric company every morning IN SCHOOL!

and i remember vividly thinking at the time how much i loved that shcool because i thought it was just like sesame street, my then-to-fore only experience with a heavily integrated children’s environment.

THANK GOD I GOT TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL AND THANK YOU TO MY PARENTS AND FAMILY.

on this MLK day and eve of what i hope will be an auspicious as well as historic presidency, the great “i have a dream” speech brings real tears to my eyes…

jezebel says i should calm down..

 

when jezebel talks, people listen -

…..it’s now time for the official Liberal Freak Out that it is all for naught. [Jezebel is] here to hold your collective hands and guide you through all the reasons you shouldn’t freak out at Matt Drudge’s numbers…or what anyone has to say today.

we shall see, we shall see. i think i am experiencing (on top of all my other crazy making, mind bogling thoughts lately) election anxiety. nobody i’ve voted has won a presidential election since i was an friend of bill c. and i still never got over feinsteins loss for california governor back in the day.

its not even that i LOOOVVVE obama so much (and i personally think biden is kind of a nut – but at least a nut f the democratic persuasion) (is that supposed to have a big D or a little d?), i kind of liked the idea of clinton/obama ‘08…. anywho… i have a lot of friends and co-workers who would apparently rather die than vote democrat. and why their out and out fear and hatred of obama? i don’t know exactly. i think mccain had a chance and instead we got W. perhaps had he been the man previously, things might be different today, i don’t know. i just want to believe all that sappy shit that we learned in civics class back in the day.

i know you voted.

don’t think hillary can beat this..

thanks to aimee @ greeblemonkey - i hadn’t seen this before: