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Saturday, 14 August 04 :: fairness.. no? no.

apparently fairness is not a strength of the right. apparently moving forward in the face of defeat and allowing those who rightfully win is not in the thoughts of the right.

maybe its just indicative of this country. maybe you could call it folks who go for what they want and don't let go until they get it, re: great competitors. maybe you just call it sore loosers.

i'll call it sore loosers.

a write in campaign is taking hold for the position of mayor in eugene. back in may kitty piercy won the primary. that means that her name will the the only one on the ballot for mayor in november, it was supposed to mean that she won. it was supposed to be that that race was over and that we could all focus on other, as important, races.

but no. the right in this town can't accept defeat. they can't accept that we win, they can't accept that someone nice and non divisive is going to run the town. what they have to do instead is divide eugene, once again. and these are the folks that call bonny bettman divisive on the city council.

the right is not nice. no, they are out only for themselves. its no wonder the idea of world peace isn't even in their realm of late night dreaming, its no wonder that our country is the way it is. its all about dog-eat-dog, cat-eat-cat. its about who can beat who, its about egos.

i hate that. i hate that we on the left have to fight for common dignity, that we on the left have to fight for the right to treat everyone with respect, that we on the left have to fight for all of us to live and work together.

this morning as i'm contemplating life, i'm realizing what so many others already probably know, i'm seeing what i've not wanted to see. i'm seeing that those on the right really don't care. no, their hearts are made of green, money green, and that green is to be kept in their pockets and not to be shared. their hearts are not made of gold, you know, the kind that reflects, the kind that shares its beauty with others.

posted by brooke at August 14, 2004 11:23 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.