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To: Neocon who wrote (54592)	9/4/1999 2:48:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Neo, In neighbors, the important thing is not what they like to do in their spare time, but how they interact with you. Speaking for myself, I would prefer to live next to Jeeter Lester (unless he insisted on playing his boom box outdoors!) than to someone who would get all bent out of shape if I didn't have my lawn properly mowed all the time, or if he heard a visitor or relative of mine utter a cuss-word, or if he suspected me of leading an "impure" life and gossiped about it, etc., etc. I have had that sort (the second sort) of neighbors, so I know whereof I speak. (They were all Republicans, incidentally; but then, it was a Republican town.) On the other hand, we do have some Jeeter Lesters (from Appalachia)on our block, and once they stopped "entertaining" us by blaring loud & awful music outdoors, they fitted in fine. They do come around occasionally to cadge a cup of sugar or a cigarette, but hey! Mailer may have a point about "leftish" academics of the Noam Chomsky variety -- but politics is not the primary focus of most academics' professional and/or personal lives, and I don't even know the political orientation of most of the academics of my acquaintance. I am an ex-academic myself, my late husband was one; one of my brothers is one; my sister-in-law is one; etc., etc. We were/are all "liberals"; but "earnest" and "humorless" and "obsessed with politics" and "bien pensant" would be the last adjectives I would apply to any of us (myself included). Joan

To: Neocon who wrote (54592)	9/4/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I frequently joke that "Republican fun" is an oxymoron, but for the well-heeled who like cigars and brandy, there is such a thing as Republican fun. Do you read the American Spectator? My brother-in-law gave me a subscription for my birthday, and renews it every year, although I got tired of it, and my husband is the only one who reads it. There used to be a column on watering holes, there are several places in the D.C. area they like, which seem to be places for Republican fun if you're so inclined.