A.I.D.S. rate in DC now higher than West Africa

[chri'stina 190]

So every 6 months you name changing fools with be all randomized all over again????

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.)

You don't have to be "really old". Death happens.

[HannahP 119]

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.)

You don't have to be "really old". Death happens.

This is true, however, I was really just making a joke at the expense of all the Really Old Vjers.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I can't wait to take my car out on those pre-1950s roads. Might have to leave a bit of extra time for traffic

My colleagues who live out in Hunterdon tell me back then the only way to get to EWR was 22. There was no 78. Holy ####### can you imagine the traffic. Unless Constellation plans to cull the herd too.

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.) Holy #######, my mom lived through the desegregation of KC in the late 50s. And the bra-burning 70s. She was actually one of the first women in the state of MO to be made a full partner in a law firm.

It's fascinating stuff.

A lot of my favourite authors came from that era. Some interesting insights you get reading between the lines.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.)

You don't have to be "really old". Death happens.

This is true, however, I was really just making a joke at the expense of all the Really Old Vjers.

[Heracles 417]

I can't wait to take my car out on those pre-1950s roads. Might have to leave a bit of extra time for traffic

My colleagues who live out in Hunterdon tell me back then the only way to get to EWR was 22. There was no 78. Holy ####### can you imagine the traffic. Unless Constellation plans to cull the herd too.

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.) Holy #######, my mom lived through the desegregation of KC in the late 50s. And the bra-burning 70s. She was actually one of the first women in the state of MO to be made a full partner in a law firm.

It's fascinating stuff.

Shh you don't want common sense to cause the following in some of them:

Edited March 18, 2009 by Constellation

[HannahP 119]

I can't wait to take my car out on those pre-1950s roads. Might have to leave a bit of extra time for traffic

My colleagues who live out in Hunterdon tell me back then the only way to get to EWR was 22. There was no 78. Holy ####### can you imagine the traffic. Unless Constellation plans to cull the herd too.

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.) Holy #######, my mom lived through the desegregation of KC in the late 50s. And the bra-burning 70s. She was actually one of the first women in the state of MO to be made a full partner in a law firm.

It's fascinating stuff.

A lot of my favourite authors came from that era. Some interesting insights you get reading between the lines.

I actually sat down and read a lot of the original women's lib lit from the 50s-60s. (The Feminine Mystique, etc.)

My mom got to chat with Germaine Greer quite a bit back in the sixties. She remembered that there was a lot of optimism about the feminist movement. The idea of only one "gap generation" (so my mom bought my older brother dolls!) -- that things would otherwise be quick and easy.

What are your favorite authors from the period? The beat writers?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I can't wait to take my car out on those pre-1950s roads. Might have to leave a bit of extra time for traffic

My colleagues who live out in Hunterdon tell me back then the only way to get to EWR was 22. There was no 78. Holy ####### can you imagine the traffic. Unless Constellation plans to cull the herd too.

Have ya'all ever talked to your parents about the past? (Unless you're really old & they're dead.) Holy #######, my mom lived through the desegregation of KC in the late 50s. And the bra-burning 70s. She was actually one of the first women in the state of MO to be made a full partner in a law firm.

It's fascinating stuff.

A lot of my favourite authors came from that era. Some interesting insights you get reading between the lines.

I actually sat down and read a lot of the original women's lib lit from the 50s-60s. (The Feminine Mystique, etc.)

My mom got to chat with Germaine Greer quite a bit back in the sixties. She remembered that there was a lot of optimism about the feminist movement. The idea of only one "gap generation" (so my mom bought my older brother dolls!) -- that things would otherwise be quick and easy.

What are your favorite authors from the period? The beat writers?

I'm not really clued up on feminist theory but I never really cared for Germaine Greer - she always struck me as something of synthesist - someone who came along after the real thinking was done and whose main talent involved rendering down and summarising other people's work to form her opinions.

A lot of the authors I like are from the Pulp magazine era - 20's to 50's. Mainly mystery and weird tales stuff - interesting contrast between different writers. While most of those guys reflect the prevailing social of their time - there are interesting contrasts (certainly as far as racism goes) between Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, for example; or HP Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

Ray Bradbury is probably the best example though - of someone who transcended the attitudes of his time.

Edited March 18, 2009 by Private Pike

[HannahP 119]

^ Greer always just struck me as a waaaaaay radical, just short of those who believe that you can only be a lesbian if you're a feminist, especially after I read The Female Eunuch. I am also not a fan of eating my own menstrual blood. Although you're right -- she definitely packaged many feminist ideas in a way that non-academics could understand them.

I've read a bit of everyone you talked about, not enough to really know them except Ray Bradbury whom I (heart) dearly.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It does show you that while certain attitudes were prevalent during that period - that there was also a lot of resistance to that sort of thing back then.

Chandler has no black protagonists for example, and he almost exclusively uses blacks (and other minority racial groups) to embellish his version of 30's LA as being seamy and corrupt. Hammett has no black protagonists either - but he doesn't use racial stereotypes at all in his writing.

Lovecraft is undeniably racist. His style is an acquired taste - and it can be hard to read his stuff when you come across some of his diatribes about subhuman types. But at the same time you have Robert E Howard (who wrote Conan the barbarian) who uses a lot of the same stereotypes but doesn't make them the focus of his themes. Easier to forgive.

[justashooter 430]

Indomethacin?

Perhaps you can slip Brother BY some PCP - might help even the odds.

it's an anti-inflamatory that is often prescribed for gout, buddy. i've had gout since i was 30, incidental to traumatic arthritis residual to broken bones in the feet from too many jumps with full load out at too low elevations. sometimes the shock and awe was on our side, too.

gout is caused by uric acid crystalisation in the soft tissues of the joints. too much red meat, too much alcohol, too much shellfish, too much red wine, too much sex. any of them will cause gout, especially if circulation in the joint is compromised by residuals to joint trauma, or prolonged exposure to extreme cold or dampness.

Ouch...broken bones in the feet! Is that typical? and which ones usually break? (sorry, O/T i know, but I find this stuff fascinating. Two of my husband's work buddies shattered their ankles during jumps (one was THIS close to completing ranger school...bummer, so I know that happens...broken feet bones makes sense, but I'd be interested to know how big a problem it is).

And on a similar note, the discussion earlier in the topic postings about the development of the HIV strains, and what makes one more prone (malaria...I didn't know that) was very interesting.

And PG County...a lot of military peeps around here would rather drive around in Iraq than drive into certain parts of the PGC. It's a whole different world. Crazy indeed.

most breaks in jumps are ankle or arch bones. i had some arch bones and a big toe snapped. gusty winds make timing the roll tricky.

[Ban Hammer 13,659]

So every 6 months you name changing fools with be all randomized all over again????

or they could get together and swap names. aj becomes steven, steven becomes aj, and so on.

[anka 1]

Yeah this sucks, though not a shocker. DC is what I call 'home' and where I was born. Poor DC...

All government and political garbage aside, it'll be a great day when something postive about DC and the *real* people who live there actually makes it on the news - national and international.