tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701899709555814591.post3345348568599133897..comments2023-06-18T09:38:26.500-04:00Comments on Perfect Sand: Flyover CountryAugusthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05327497007604732176noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701899709555814591.post-53550498866940893312010-02-23T09:44:59.753-05:002010-02-23T09:44:59.753-05:00I try not to get righteously indignant, but I'...I try not to get righteously indignant, but I'm a loyal Cincinnatian. You know, me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against the world :-)Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05327497007604732176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701899709555814591.post-11423299409017557962010-02-23T01:17:04.389-05:002010-02-23T01:17:04.389-05:00Whoa. Some righteous indignation here. Good to see...Whoa. Some righteous indignation here. Good to see you folks defending your hometown. I've never been there but I'm impressed by your loyalty. I also followed Kate the Great's link to a NY Times Travel piece. Looks like a lot of happening stuff.<br />Good for you for calling out A.A. Gill and Vanity Fair.george redehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322936024014910418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701899709555814591.post-41820694642897537462010-02-19T08:38:08.393-05:002010-02-19T08:38:08.393-05:00The most galling comments in this piece were refer...The most galling comments in this piece were references to the visitors in terms of their weight (more likely to overdose on carbs than vanity), their (lack of) education (declaring the scientists who oppose their world view as people who stayed on at school past 14), and the terrible swipe at the Amish (those people dressed like Little House on the Prairie). If any American wants to contest that we have a class system, here it is in all its rather disgusting glory. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong: I get rather hot and bothered when faced with the stubborn and unshakeable faith of the Creationists and specifically their refusal to engage with science. But on the other hand, it makes me far angrier to see the real ignorance of certain supposedly well-educated people. You are a journalist, and bloody hell, you should know better. But they don't.Sevachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701899709555814591.post-13512508375675837872010-02-19T05:20:13.159-05:002010-02-19T05:20:13.159-05:00Wow. This author reminds me of a certain type of ...Wow. This author reminds me of a certain type of Middle Class Briton over here who spends thousands of pounds a year to take trips to New York or Orlando but then slams the very people who show them--nine times out of ten, they often admit--the kind of unreserved warmth and welcome that is rarely experienced in Britain. British people are friendly and kind, but they prefer politeness over warmth when it comes to strangers. <br /><br />The whole exchange with the woman in the Opticians Shop--I bet she thought he was a sanctimonious freak! Any one of the latte-sipping liberals I know would have thought that exchange odd, supporters of Darwin or not. Only a pompous shite who fancies himself the bastion of metropolitan culture in the US would use an exchange in an optician's to reinforce his own importance about himself. Good Lord!Sevachnoreply@blogger.com