{"id":2470,"date":"2002-06-18T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2002-06-18T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2002-06-18T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2002-06-18T14:08:13","slug":"tuesday_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/tuesday_things.html","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for Tuesday Things<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Republican or Democrat? Left or Right? Liberal or Conservative?<\/b><\/p>\n

See the “About Me<\/a>” section I just added yesterday …<\/p>\n

From a practical standpoint, I generally vote Democrat (a) because I live in a Republican state, and somebody needs to keep them on their toes, and (b) because the GOP remains largely caught up by social\/religious conservatives whom I vehemently disagree with.<\/p>\n

I still identify more with Democratic causes than with Republican ones, though not exclusively and not as much as I used to.<\/p>\n

2. When you vote (or if you voted) do you vote based on the issues or the political party of the candidates?<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh. See above.<\/p>\n

I try to follow along these issues. Unfortunately, most political campaigns devolve into sound bites carefully scripted to attract core constituencies. On the bright side, rarely is someone so whacked-out fringe (on either side) that their strange policy stances are meaningful.<\/p>\n

3. Remember that time when you were a kid and you were playing in the sandbox and you picked up a handful of sand and you ate is and you said it was “good”? Yeah, that was great.<\/b><\/p>\n

Never been much for eating sand or dirt. Gritty. Crunchy in a bad way. Bleah.<\/p>\n

4. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Aside from right where I am (which would be my default answer)?<\/p>\n

If elsewhere in the US, probably back in Southern California, which, while having much to recommend against it, has two sets of grandparents it would be grand to live closer to.<\/p>\n

If not in the US, either Britain or Eire. No language barrier (well, not much of one), and a relatively decent commitment to freedom.<\/p>\n

5. If you could speak any language other than your native tounge, what would you speak and why?<\/b><\/p>\n

I’d like to speak Japanese. First off, even though they’ve been in the dumps for a decade, Japan will <\/i>be back on the world scene soon enough. Secondly, I’d like to be able to watch anime without subtitles (or bad dubbing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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