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October 4, 2003

Cheddar X Time again - and I'm late

1. Where would you be if you were in a band?
I would be the back up girl singer. I can harmonize pretty well, but I'm definitely an alto, not a soprano - can't hit high notes.

2. What compels people to obey the law, the desire to avoid prison or caring for their fellow man? Why? Why not?
This is a tough one. There are some laws that are stupid. I like to hope that most of use care for our fellow man, but really, we are all pretty damned selfish.
Being selfish as we are, it's probably to keep ourselves out of prison - or in my case, it is my conscience that makes me feel guilty all the time anyway.
It's that Irish Catholic guilt thing my parents laid on me. Oh, and the nuns. The Jesuit priests in college tried their damndest to make me a secular humanist, but the guilt thing just won't go away.... ever. So if I want to live with myself, I mostly have to behave.

3. What's your favorite secret trick or shortcut either you can do or you know about?

Secret trick. hmmm. I'm not sure if I even have one, and you want to know my favorite? geeze. I have double jointed thumbs, but that's kinda dumb. I can speek in rhyme all day long (and sometimes do in my head) but that's a little scary, a secret I should keep - along with counting how many steps from the parking lot to my cubicle at work.

Oh, oh, I know - my best secret trick is nodding my head and listening to my coworkers and making them think that I have some idea of what the hell they are talking about, especially when talking about computer hardware or some tv show they watch. None of them really know that I'm not listening.

4. There has recently been quite a bit of exposure regarding biased reporting from Iraq. Is it the responsibility of the news agencies to report good news as well as bad news?

We have a free press here, thankfully - so they don't really have any responsibility at all - and they have proved that quite well in Iraq. They have a lot of political and monetary motivations that some people don't understand.

I think it is the responsibility of Americans to search behind the nattering nabobs of negatism (thank you William Safire - that has been my favorite line for years - even though you wrote it for that stinky Agnew!) to discover the news - we can do that these days with the internet, mass communications, etc.

5. What should the age of consent be and why?

16 sounds fair.

6. Are you a Stealth Blogger? That is, do you let the people in your life know you blog? If so, why? If not, why not?

Well, John and Andy and August know about it. A couple of my co-workers know about it. I'm not one of those angry wives blogging to complain about her horrid husband without his knowledge. I have seen too many of those blogs, and though I feel for the wives, this is the 21st Century - they can get out of evil bad relationships, and they can make it themselves. This is where I disagree with a lot of religions conservatives. Divorce can be a very healthy thing for people and the children.

Posted by Beth at October 4, 2003 8:51 AM