reasons #58-60 to consider leaving Pittsburgh
Reason #58: The Fox Chapel Area High School Halloween Costume and Class-Consciousness Controversy. The comments are an ongoing saga of poor spelling and name-calling. Thanks to Bernstein, and to Pittsburgh Dish for covering this so well, and responding so well to the wretched comments. Reading the comments, I feel guilty for blogging semi-anonymously and for my sloppy punctuation. But that is the least of their offenses. And I know obnoxious high schoolers are not unique to the Pittsburgh area.
Reason #59: The McCarthy-esque Witch Hunt held at Pitt. Though this, too, I think is a national problem - the conservative students at the university (not nearby) where I teach were taking names and numbers recently. They must have all gotten some sort of directive from right-wing HQ. And this is obviously a state-wide thing. Thanks to Michael Berube, at Penn State, for alerting me. No thanks to bloggers in the Pittsburgh area for not alerting me. Did I miss something?
Reason #60: I take shit like this so personally. Yes, it's a New Yorker cartoon.
And I thought it was such a beautiful place to avoid a crassly consumptive lifestyle while enjoying fairly good urban infrastructure and ruminating on the violence of capitalism and post-industrialization. Ah well. My mistake.
Categories: Pittsburgh, newyorker, education, currentevents
Affects: shame/humiliation, anger/rage, distress/anguish
Reason #59: The McCarthy-esque Witch Hunt held at Pitt. Though this, too, I think is a national problem - the conservative students at the university (not nearby) where I teach were taking names and numbers recently. They must have all gotten some sort of directive from right-wing HQ. And this is obviously a state-wide thing. Thanks to Michael Berube, at Penn State, for alerting me. No thanks to bloggers in the Pittsburgh area for not alerting me. Did I miss something?
Reason #60: I take shit like this so personally. Yes, it's a New Yorker cartoon.
And I thought it was such a beautiful place to avoid a crassly consumptive lifestyle while enjoying fairly good urban infrastructure and ruminating on the violence of capitalism and post-industrialization. Ah well. My mistake.
Categories: Pittsburgh, newyorker, education, currentevents
Affects: shame/humiliation, anger/rage, distress/anguish
posted by zoe p. at 4:01 PM
2 Comments:
oh sure YOU take it personally but its not as though you live in Scranton or anything
Scranton . . .
. . . at least it's in Pennsylvania. I've lived in Pittsburgh and Philly (and I am, really, fond of both) and I think Pennsylvania knows some important secrets.
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