I'm adopted Irish, stuck with the name, and I'm not wearing green...nor am I drinking food-colored American horse piss "after work". (That said, were I not giving three lectures tomorrow, I might well go out for a drink, but there is no one *here* to drink with.)
1) no issue with the passive-aggressive; most blogs have some unless we have an unrelenting stream of (a) travel narratives, (b) "great designs and plans for power"(tm), (c) interesting philosophical wanking (often verging on passive-aggressive), or (d) practice rants for the next emotive outburst to be followed by *hugz*, sympathy, and furtive blowjobs in the club bathroom. *ick*
2) passive-aggressive or not, venting steam, irritation, and confusion is again the point...besides, you were gracious enough not to do the standard "and you don't have to read it, so there!"
3) I found what you had to say very intriguing as I hadn't thought through some of the implications that you offered. If something will cost money, just or not, I don't tend to try--manly because I assume I will lose, just as I lose in poker (when I play) by being outbid. Personally, I also expect cronyism and identity politics, so I expect to lose any legal challenge and thus avoid them.
One thing I would like to offer: sometimes it is difficult to leave a bad situation. I'm not talking about "battered wife/lover" or its related syndromes, but situations where someone has a checkered past, a poor review in their history, got in on hard work but may not quite have the qualifications on paper to move elsewhere, or even the simple geographic limitations.
And last, as I blow hard and long, there are those who have a difficulty learning--period--because they have always been taught to go for the "right answer" without developing an understanding of the analytical or argumentative process. I deal with these on a weekly basis, and the depressing thing is they try hard, they really do, to match the "templates" they've seen that they've been told are "right" --but-- often without grasping why the form fits a function, or why principle elements are privileged over others. Variety confuses them. Retraining is not quite impossible, but it means just what you've said: overcoming ingrained behavior, and worse, ingrained intellectual patterns.
Oh, and fuck St. Patrick -- drove the snakes out, my ass. Damned pontificating, self-righteous bastard right up there with the rest that talked about how the "Irish saved civilization". bollocks. Give me a druid and some mead or whiskey, dammit.
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1) no issue with the passive-aggressive; most blogs have some unless we have an unrelenting stream of (a) travel narratives, (b) "great designs and plans for power"(tm), (c) interesting philosophical wanking (often verging on passive-aggressive), or (d) practice rants for the next emotive outburst to be followed by *hugz*, sympathy, and furtive blowjobs in the club bathroom. *ick*
2) passive-aggressive or not, venting steam, irritation, and confusion is again the point...besides, you were gracious enough not to do the standard "and you don't have to read it, so there!"
3) I found what you had to say very intriguing as I hadn't thought through some of the implications that you offered. If something will cost money, just or not, I don't tend to try--manly because I assume I will lose, just as I lose in poker (when I play) by being outbid. Personally, I also expect cronyism and identity politics, so I expect to lose any legal challenge and thus avoid them.
One thing I would like to offer: sometimes it is difficult to leave a bad situation. I'm not talking about "battered wife/lover" or its related syndromes, but situations where someone has a checkered past, a poor review in their history, got in on hard work but may not quite have the qualifications on paper to move elsewhere, or even the simple geographic limitations.
And last, as I blow hard and long, there are those who have a difficulty learning--period--because they have always been taught to go for the "right answer" without developing an understanding of the analytical or argumentative process. I deal with these on a weekly basis, and the depressing thing is they try hard, they really do, to match the "templates" they've seen that they've been told are "right" --but-- often without grasping why the form fits a function, or why principle elements are privileged over others. Variety confuses them. Retraining is not quite impossible, but it means just what you've said: overcoming ingrained behavior, and worse, ingrained intellectual patterns.
Oh, and fuck St. Patrick -- drove the snakes out, my ass. Damned pontificating, self-righteous bastard right up there with the rest that talked about how the "Irish saved civilization". bollocks. Give me a druid and some mead or whiskey, dammit.