mamamusings: October 6, 2006

elizabeth lane lawley's thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topics

Friday, 6 October 2006

preteen rebellion in the digital age

It’s one thing to know that your kids are likely to reject your basic ideas about what’s good and what isn’t. It’s another to watch it unfold in front of your eyes.

Lane scored a home run in the rejection of parental values category with his Powerpoint paean to bullet points. (The link is to his blog entry, which in turn links to the Quicktime version of the actual presentation.)

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my district's democractic congressional candidate has a MySpace site!

When Rochester was redistricted a few years ago, my suburb was grouped with a bunch of very conservative rural areas rather than the Democratically-leaning city and close-in suburbs we’d been with. As a result, I went from being represented by Democractic congresswoman Louise Slaughter to Republican congressman Randy Kuhl. Most defiintely not an improvement

Today I found that our district’s Democratic candidate, Eric Massa, actually has a MySpace site. I’m impressed. Not just a Democrat, but a net-savvy Democract? Could we get that lucky? I sure hope so.

I’ll definitely be voting for Massa in November.

(My father, who lives in Buffalo, will actually be able to vote for Tom Reynolds’ opponent!)

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