So i just finished having a yelling match with my brother over global warming...Debates over politics are a pass time in my house but no one enjoys them it's just a Bootes thing YOU DON'T BACK DOWN. For those of you who do not know chase he is quite the character. He is 12 years old in the 6th grade he loves to fight. we used to beat the shit out of each other but he's learned a much more sure fire way to tick me off. CONSERVATIVE POLITICS! He recently he acquired a MP3 player that he fills with pod casts of Rush Limbaugh and his favorite conservative talking head Glenn Beck. For Christmas my dad bought chase and my sister a copy of Glenn Beck's book. It was on their wish list they are 11 and 15! My sister reads it out loud to him its quite the bonding ritual. Another bonding ritual that many of my friends can attest to is the fact that upon walking to my house you well often find all the TVs off with my Brother and Sister listening to conservative talk radio. as I'm writing this he's taunting me with something about how Europe sucks. Some how since I'm liberal that means European/French policy are my supreme wish and I should take any offense to these far away lands very personally. not my logic don't ask. anyways this is a very regular occurrence in my house and since we are loud ppl and its 4-1 conservative to liberal ratio i often run to my room (sometimes in tears or in a slew of choice words) when i can't handle anymore abortion/global warming/Iraq/religious/yu name it debate.
so unsurprisingly when I'm looking for political blogs i like them left leaning. Sometimes i need a reprieve from the conservative bullhorn. When i get to feeling this way one of my stops is Alternet.org . upon opening the browser window I'm greeted with titles like Huckabee's Biblical Madness: Dispatches From the War on Stupidity and Your Time Is Up, Mr. President -- the National Guard Is Coming Home. Seeing these titles just gives the "femi-nazi"** "dirty liberal"*** child I am the warm fuzzies. I believe that the site is pretty bias but the stories there are interesting, thought provoking and liberal enough to keep me coming back for more. I mean i figure i deserve to cater to my bias since I'm so often listening to the red side (albeit unwillingly).
** NO, I'm not literally a Nazi! "Femi-nazi" is what Rush Limbaugh regularly calls feminists on his talk show...yeahh its high brow stuff google him and Glenn Beck if you'd like more of the sort.
***I think it goes without saying that one.
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- jbootes
- Im seventeen and this is my blog for an english class at linworth alternative highschool.
1 comment:
ahhh jeni, it seems you are again victimized as the minority. It is very admirable you were and are able to state your opinion whether everyone in your whole family strongly disagrees! I cant imagine whta that would be like, haha, well its sort of humerous but also frightenning at the same time. It is very closeminded of your siblings to refuse any other posibilities than that of the radical conservatives. I hope as they grow older they will be open to other posibilities at the very least! "My sister reads it out loud to him its quite the bonding ritual." HEHE dassofunny
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