Slog - Comments on Trees, Bolivia http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia Even though both of my parents have aged into Republicans, I was raised as a Democrat. (Now there's a mind game.) When Dukakis and Bush were debating on TV in 1988, my mother explained that the reason to vote Democratic was "because Democrats care about poor people." (Her political party of choice changed when she became a born-again Christian.) The reason I like reading about the president of Bolivia is because I was taught to admire the attitude he has toward those people at the bottom of the economy. I also think Bolivia is a beautiful word. I have been... Copyright 2007 Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:29:19 -0800 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:42:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by someguy You should listen to your parents more often...

"A young person who is a republican has no heart, an old person who is a democrat has no brain."

]]> someguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388208 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388208 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:34:03 -0800 Comment by White Man In Motion I have 6 years left before I have to move to the suburbs, take Christ as my savior, decide I'm 16th Cherokee and vote Republican.

It's just a rule. We all know it is.

]]> White Man In Motion http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388214 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388214 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:41:06 -0800 Comment by Secret South I have been to Bolivia a couple of times. It is a beautiful country. I would recommend seeing the movie Sexual Dependency by Bolivian director Rodrigo Bellott.

]]> Secret South http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388227 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:07:24 -0800 Comment by Jim Demetre I'm so sorry to hear about your parents! Perhaps they'll come around in time.

]]> Jim Demetre http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388258 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388258 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:08:24 -0800 Comment by Once was enough, thank you It's too bad when nice normal people have deeply hidden character flaws that cause them to be "born again"

The Republican part I can kind of understand - people get cranky and weird as they get older, and that is the Republican market segment - but there's no explaining the born again defficiency.

]]> Once was enough, thank you http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388260 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:17:11 -0800 Comment by Jenny There is ONE Republican in my entire family. She also happens to be a born-again Christian. We keep her locked in a broom cupboard when company comes over.

My grandparents are Democrats and they protest and take part in the world around them and try to make a difference.

We don't have to stop caring about the welfare of others just because we "grow up". That's not growing up, it's just getting lazy.

]]> Jenny http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388372 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388372 Life Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:46:22 -0800 Comment by late night jerk offer Well, hell. I sent this email to "editor@thestranger.com" and I got a ton of emails back from all your internal addresses saying delivery failed to all. Here's what I sent:

SUBJECT: Slogworthy? "MISSING PERSON"

Cruising CL M4M ads looking for pictures to jerk off to tonight before
bed (read: don't "hat tip" me), I came across this alarming posting
about a cute 24 yo old guy who came to Seattle pride from Portland and
never made it home:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/m4m/177590398.html

Hopefully it's just a prank or some guy who got sick of his roommate
and didn't know how to break it off, but if it's more sinister
hopefully you can get the word out. I have no connection to this CL
posting.

]]> late night jerk offer http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388472 Life Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:48:12 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Jenny, I didn't mean to imply that Republicanism is a natural by-product of age. Far from it. My mother is an 81 year old Irish Catholic Rooseveltian Democrat who was one of the first people in her small Iowa town (in Steve King's district) to speak out against the war.

She also manages to be both pro-life and resolutely pro-choice, but that's too complicated to explain right now.

So Republicanism amongst the old is sort of like Alhzeimers. It doesn't happen to everyone, but it's sad to see it happen to anyone. Particularly since - as mom likes to point out - members of the "greatest generation", and their offspring, benifitted mightily from big government and organized labor. It's most ungracious of them to shill for the cons.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/trees_bolivia#c388690 Life Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:42:00 -0800