Comments on: but then we voted for Obama… http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794 "The hobgoblin of little blogs." "A knack for taking the already disturbing and turning it into the abjectly ghastly." Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:36:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: The Recession and Bohemians « I Think ^(Link) Therefore I Err http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65423 The Recession and Bohemians « I Think ^(Link) Therefore I Err Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:52:41 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65423 [...] 26, 2009 · No Comments BTL links to this NYTimes story today about Bohemian neighborhoods being affected by the [...] […] 26, 2009 · No Comments BTL links to this NYTimes story today about Bohemian neighborhoods being affected by the […]

]]> By: Bloodthirsty Liberal http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65421 Bloodthirsty Liberal Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:46:44 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65421 She is a product of our era, or more specifically the upper-middle class of our era. It is a package. I take some responsibility for this because we raised her generation. They are dangerously naive. What will happen to them when they are faced with actual problems? Will they even recognize the threat? - Aggie She is a product of our era, or more specifically the upper-middle class of our era. It is a package. I take some responsibility for this because we raised her generation. They are dangerously naive. What will happen to them when they are faced with actual problems? Will they even recognize the threat?

- Aggie

]]> By: Carol http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65417 Carol Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:32:24 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=8794#comment-65417 What is it with artsy-fartsy types, and you can bet she believes she is an artist, and reality? I do not have any trouble identifying what is real - my house, my cats, the stores over on the strip - and what is not - Obama's knowledge of economics and foreign affairs. But this silly woman needs stores or something in her neighborhood to "make the local real to us." I don't even know what that means. Or perhaps I misunderstood and she needs her mythical Whole Foods store or her never-there pub or imagined retro diner, things that never ever existed, to make the local real. What is it with artsy-fartsy types, and you can bet she believes she is an artist, and reality? I do not have any trouble identifying what is real - my house, my cats, the stores over on the strip - and what is not - Obama’s knowledge of economics and foreign affairs. But this silly woman needs stores or something in her neighborhood to “make the local real to us.” I don’t even know what that means.

Or perhaps I misunderstood and she needs her mythical Whole Foods store or her never-there pub or imagined retro diner, things that never ever existed, to make the local real.

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