| Well, that's very kind of you Poet, and you might well be going too far with your generosity in my case (in the good, old fashioned liberal tradition!). My wife has the heavy burden of having to look good for both of us. Maybe she does so much good trying to make up for me as well. She is very green, low maintenance monetarily, well....I married quite a bit over my head, above my station, and all that (as has every man that could, that I know). Now I have to try to live up to it. Not only all that, but she is determined to have the kids turn out well in spite of my influence. It's a big job, and she is doing it pretty darn well. It seems to me those labels get in the way quite a bit. The broad label is that conservatives are haters, as some here seem to say. They have no compassion, are control freak patriarchs. I just have to shrug. The academic and theoretical battles engaged in here seldom get a real live flesh and blood person to be doing better in a concrete way. That's what it boils down to, in my opinion, and where I'd rather spend more of my energy. |
