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[fpb]

One thing I did not expect was that a passing note arising from my fury at the BBC's biased and mendacious reporting of the American election - and astonishment at the Spectator's attitude - would give rise to the first real blog-clash in months. Evidently I had badly underrated the desperate wish of many people to believe that Sarah Palin has horns and a tail.

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[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I don't like that "straight talk" apparently means acting like the people I go to drink beer with on occasion. Also, "gosh darnit" is not something I want my vice president saying in a room full of diplomats. AGGGH.

(Sorry fpb, I don't mean to stop on Mrs. Palin. I am just very unimpressed with her professional conduct as the 2nd-in-command.)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

OH yes you did (mean it, that is). And that's OK. I knew you did not like her. You have a right to your views. It is not that I ask anyone to like her, but that I am intensely struck by the irrationality and inconstistency of the hatred being roused against her.

[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

Aw, well okay. You just get so much meanness (or what seems like meanness) that I want to show at least a little respect on your LJ. You are older than me and are an educated historian, so I think it's wise to pay attention to what you have to say, as well as someone as my mom (who is also a historian, but certainly of a different religious mindset). It's hard to pick any particular point of view to examine things like historians do.

Blah, I'm sorry if I'm rambling, I think historians are cool!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So are you. You are learning stuff I could never in my life have coped with - calculus and whatnot. I repeat, I am not after anyone changing their minds, but where there is evidence of collective irrationality, I am interested in how and why it arises.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

P.S.: Tell me more about your mother. (Actually, I know nothing whatsoever about your family except that you have a historic Western name - Garrett like Pat Garrett - and some sort of connection with a Native American tribe, the Shoshone IIRC.)